FOOTNOTES: [A] The practice of paying the workman's wages in goods instead of money.
— from The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl

To play the devil; to be guilty of some great irregularity or mismanagement.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

"The judgment of God is on me," answered the conscience-stricken priest.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The height of the architrave, including taenia and guttae, is one module, and of the taenia, one seventh of a module.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

Association with many remote pleasures will unquestionably make a thing significant of goodness in our minds; and the more vaguely the goodness is conceived of, the more mysterious will its source appear to be.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

In the course of this history, such exaggerations will be reduced to their just value: yet, since the growth of Constantinople cannot be ascribed to the general increase of mankind and of industry, it must be admitted that this artificial colony was raised at the expense of the ancient cities of the empire.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Not to mention, that, while every man consults the good of his own community, we are sensible, that the general interest of mankind is better promoted, than any loose indeterminate views to the good of a species, whence no beneficial action could ever result, for want of a duly limited object, on which they could exert themselves.
— from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume

I left him and went to walk in the Park, where great endeavouring to get into the inward Park,—[This is still railed off from St. James’s Park, and called the Enclosure.]—but could not get in; one man was basted by the keeper, for carrying some people over on his back through the water.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

my joy on this occasion is infinitely augmented by the knowledge of those tender ties of love that bind thee to this amiable youth; a youth to whose uncommon courage and generosity I owe my life and my subsistence, together with the inexpressible delight that now revels in my bosom.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

“It is in this cemetery of Montmartre that is buried a romance of my life, a sweetheart who made a great impression on me, a very emotional, charming little woman whose memory, although it causes me great sorrow, also fills me with regrets—regrets of all kinds.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

He the more readily engaged in this excursion from an impatient desire to gain intelligence of Major Richard, and the deputation to St. Augustine.
— from Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe Founder of the Colony of Georgia, in North America. by Thaddeus Mason Harris

How goes it, old man?”
— from The Valley of Vision : A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tales by Henry Van Dyke

Now, this divine elixir gives in one moment force to the limbs and ardour to the spirits; and taken into Hector's body at the nick of time, would, by the aid of Phoebus, Venus, and the blessed saints, have most likely procured the Greeks a defeat.
— from The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade

The fervour of his passion for political liberty, his admiration of heroic actions, and his pride in his native country, were very near, in the excited state of his mind, leading him to involve himself in the grand but ill-digested plans of the Burschenschaft for the consolidation of Germany into one magnificent empire; and probably the blowing up of those plans by the government measures which followed on the wild deeds of Sand and others, just at that crisis, saved him from the fate which most probably would have awaited one so ardent and qualified to take a prominent part--flight, or exile, from his native country.
— from The Student-Life of Germany by William Howitt

The reason why Britain keeps her greatness, is owing more to her sportsmen than to her merch
— from The Chariot of the Flesh by Hedley Peek

It seemed funny to see a Greek, with one of those long Greek names ending in "popolo," in a poor little French village almost lost in the woods; but he made a very good impression on me—was very quiet, didn't give too much medicine (apothecaries' bills are always such a terror to the poor), and spoke kindly to the woman.
— from Chateau and Country Life in France by Mary King Waddington

This made a great impression on Melanchthon.
— from Luther, vol. 3 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

The great interests of Man are before it, are crying for it, can absorb all its endeavour, are, indeed, the noblest field for it.
— from The Claims of Labour: An essay on the duties of the employers to the employed by Helps, Arthur, Sir

The good influences of music on the whole body of children have likewise been surprisingly proved.
— from The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens

If this confession will serve to apologise for the want of studied coherency in the narrative, and the reckless speed in which events succeed events throughout, I shall deem myself indebted to the generous indulgence of my readers.
— from Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II by Charles James Lever