Bibles and tracts are good, and religious exhortation; but we have here left us a Divine warrant not to content ourselves with these things alone, but to have a care for the clothing and the homes of those we would reach with the Gospel.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Leviticus by Samuel H. (Samuel Henry) Kellogg

At length, on the 29th of May, 1453, Constantinople was taken by Mohammed the Second, and the government and religion established by the great Constantine, trampled in the dust by the Moslem conquerors.
— from Pinnock's improved edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome to which is prefixed an introduction to the study of Roman history, and a great variety of valuable information added throughout the work, on the manners, institutions, and antiquities of the Romans; with numerous biographical and historical notes; and questions for examination at the end of each section. By Wm. C. Taylor. by Oliver Goldsmith

The dwarf Japanese trees you need for such a garden are rather expensive, but if you do not mind that you can get many beautiful kinds.
— from The Children's Book of Gardening by Mrs. Paynter

She was it is true, an amiable, unspoiled girl, and richly endowed by nature; but her education, apart from the polish of social forms, had been greatly neglected, and what was more especially displeasing to me, was her bigotted piety, which had once even led her to attempt the conversion of the Lutheran heretic to the only true Church of salvation.
— from Louis Spohr's Autobiography Translated from the German by Louis Spohr

Growing small grain and removing everything but the stubble for fifty years greatly reduced the organic matter.
— from Organic Gardener's Composting by Steve Solomon

"Resolved, unanimously, 10th, it is indispensably necessary to good government, and rendered essential by the English constitution, that the constituent branches of the legislature be independent of each other; that, therefore, the exercise of legislative power in several colonies, by a council appointed, during pleasure, by the crown, is unconstitutional, dangerous, and destructive to the freedom of American legislation.
— from The Life of George Washington: A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Editions by John Marshall

The water was calm as glass, and reflected every brilliant colour from rock and tree, and, most of all, from the golden clouds, which already began to gather in the west.
— from The Gold Thread: A Story for the Young by Norman Macleod

Hutten calls the annates "a good at robbery" ( Ed. Böcking, IV, 207).
— from Works of Martin Luther, with Introductions and Notes (Volume II) by Martin Luther

The one was distrusted and disliked generally all round, even by a large section of his subjects; the other was universally respected and loved for his courage, brain-power, and unimpeachable honesty.
— from The Empire Makers: A Romance of Adventure and War in South Africa by Hume Nesbit