In this letter it was stated that Lord Landsdowne had studied the question with the interest which His Majesty's Government always felt bound to take in every serious plan destined to better the condition of the Jewish race.
— from The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl

To Heav’n thir prayers Flew up, nor missed the way, by envious windes Blow’n vagabond or frustrate: in they passd Dimentionless through Heav’nly dores; then clad With incense, where the Golden Altar fum’d, By thir great Intercessor, came in sight Before the Fathers Throne: Them the glad Son Presenting, thus to intercede began.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

The form in which it practically presents itself to most men is ‘that a smaller present good is not to be preferred to a greater future good’ (allowing for difference of certainty): since Prudence is generally exercised in restraining a present desire (the object or satisfaction of which we commonly regard as pro tanto ‘a good’), on account of the remoter consequences of gratifying it.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

With his own notes Caesar appears to have incorporated the observations of a Greek explorer, by name Posidonius, who travelled in Gaul about fifty years before Caesar carried the Roman arms to the English Channel.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Thus Christie learned, like many another needy member of the gay profession, that though often extravagant and jovial in their way of life, these men and women give as freely as they spend, wear warm, true hearts under their motley, and make misfortune only another link in the bond of good-fellowship which binds them loyally together.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

Ye see me troubled, driven forth, unwillingly obedient, ready to go—alas, to go away from YOU!
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Away then with these childish scruples: Be persuaded to your good, and follow me to the Sepulchre.' 'Oh! cease, Matilda!
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

Thence to the office, and at noon to the ‘Change, where very busy getting ships for Guinny and for Tangier.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

From this time forward he surrounds himself with objects of veneration, companionship, tenderness, and love; but he also wishes to enjoy the privileges of all religious people, and to worship what he venerates most highly in his little community—he will even go as far as to invent a religion for the purpose of having a community.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

No sooner had th' Almighty ceas't, but all The multitude of Angels with a shout Loud as from numbers without number, sweet As from blest voices, uttering joy, Heav'n rung FULL-SIZE -- Medium-Size With Jubilee, and loud Hosanna's fill'd Th' eternal Regions: lowly reverent Towards either Throne they bow, & to the ground 350 With solemn adoration down they cast Thir Crowns inwove with Amarant and Gold, Immortal Amarant, a Flour which once In Paradise, fast by the Tree of Life Began to bloom, but soon for mans offence To Heav'n remov'd where first it grew, there grows, And flours aloft shading the Fount of Life, And where the river of Bliss through midst of Heavn Rowls o're Elisian Flours her Amber stream; With these that never fade the Spirits Elect 360 Bind thir resplendent locks inwreath'd with beams, Now in loose Garlands thick thrown off, the bright Pavement that like a Sea of Jasper shon Impurpl'd with Celestial Roses smil'd.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

The French shore of Lac Leman, the Département of Haute-Savoie, is cut off from Geneva by the neutral Pays de Gex, and from Switzerland on the east by the torrent of the Morge, just beyond Saint Gingolph.
— from Castles and Chateaux of Old Burgundy by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

It was written when the family was living at the Soldiers' Home, and Mrs. Lincoln and Tad had gone away for a visit.
— from The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln by Helen Nicolay

(After Götte.) a. fold of epiblast continuous with the dorsal fin; is x .
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 3 (of 4) A Treatise on Comparative Embryology: Vertebrata by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

He knew that unless he did something at once the other would get away from him.
— from The Free Range by Francis William Sullivan

"Good-evening, good-evening," murmured a number of voices, German and French, and the old dressmaker, standing up, her face haggard under the gas, took both Fanny's hands with a whimper: "It will never be done!
— from The Happy Foreigner by Enid Bagnold

Is thy heart devoted to God, and freed from noise and clamor, that God himself may work in it?
— from True Christianity A Treatise on Sincere Repentence, True Faith, the Holy Walk of the True Christian, Etc. by Johann Arndt

“Have you got any federal greenbacks?”
— from History of the Second Massachusetts Regiment of Infantry: A prisoner's diary A paper read at the officers' reunion in Boston, May 11, 1877 by Samuel M. (Samuel Miller) Quincy

But let them get enough to give them awe and love, light and help, guidance and foresight.
— from Health: Five Lay Sermons to Working-People by John Brown

Now, as I do not (as stated) pretend for a moment to be a skilled doctor, I shall content myself with giving a few recipes (the results of my own experience), for the treatment of ordinary well-known and common equine ailments—touching lightly upon other matters that seem to bear upon the subject on which I have undertaken to give advice.
— from Riding for Ladies: With Hints on the Stable by O'Donoghue, Power, Mrs.