Goebel, one of Khanikoff's party, found a deposit of turquoises at Taft, near Yezd.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

The gardens of Alameda knew her step: the garths of olives knew and bowed.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

It must be admitted, that it was a great fault in their legislator not to guard against the constitution's degenerating from an aristocracy; for this is a most necessary thing to provide for at first, that those citizens who have the best abilities should never be obliged to do anything unworthy their character, but be always at leisure to serve the public, not only when in office, but also when private persons; for if once you are obliged to look among the wealthy, that you may have men at leisure to serve you, your greatest offices, of king and general, will soon become venal; in consequence of which, riches will be more honourable than virtue and a love of money be the ruling principle in the city-for what those who have the chief power regard as honourable will necessarily be the object which the [1273b] citizens in general will aim at; and where the first honours are not paid to virtue, there the aristocratic form of government cannot flourish: for it is reasonable to conclude, that those who bought their places should generally make an advantage of what they laid out their money for; as it is absurd to suppose, that if a man of probity who is poor should be desirous of gaining something, a bad man should not endeavour to do the same, especially to reimburse himself; for which reason the magistracy should be formed of those who are most able to support an aristocracy.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

The hotel we live in belonged to one of those great orders of knights of the Cross in the times of the Crusades, and its mailed sentinels once kept watch and ward in its massive turrets and woke the echoes of these halls and corridors with their iron heels.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

In support of the position that Order is intrinsically different from Progress, and that preservation of existing and acquisition of additional good are sufficiently distinct to afford the basis of a fundamental classification, we shall perhaps be reminded that Progress may be at the expense of Order; that while we are acquiring, or striving to acquire, good of one kind, we may be losing ground in respect to others; thus there may be progress in wealth, while there is deterioration in virtue.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

Yet it would be unfair to the generality of our kind to ascribe wholly to their intellectual and moral weakness the gradual divergence of Buddhism and Christianity from their primitive patterns.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

So up to the church, where at the door I find Captain Cocke in my Lord Brunker’s coach, and he come out and walked with me in the church-yarde till the church was done, talking of the ill government of our Kingdom, nobody setting to heart the business of the Kingdom, but every body minding their particular profit or pleasures, the King himself minding nothing but his ease, and so we let things go to wracke.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

"We confide in the generosity of our kinsman."
— 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

Moreover, he had seen, in the distance, what he was sure must be the identical house of Mr. Peggotty, with smoke coming out of the chimney; and had had a great mind, he told me, to walk in and swear he was myself grown out of knowledge.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Upon the revival and new modelling of the Order of the Bath, in the reign of George the First, a King of Arms was created and attached to it, by the title of Bath King of Arms; and King George III., upon the institution of the Hanoverian Guelphic Order of Knighthood, annexed to that order a King of Arms, by the appellation of Hanover.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

We receive from a study of his works an impression of sameness, like that conveyed by the landscapes of Corot, chiefly because they are generally on one key, and refer to a class of subjects so quiet and undemonstrative that only he who observes them repeatedly and reflectively discovers that each work is the result of a distinct inspiration, and possesses suggestions and qualities of its own.
— from Art in America: A Critical and Historial Sketch by S. G. W. (Samuel Greene Wheeler) Benjamin

[128] Mailla was despatched by the Jesuits in 1703 on a mission into the interior of China, and had a good opportunity of knowing the country, where he lived for forty-five years, and of which he was employed by the emperor to construct a map.
— from Waterways and Water Transport in Different Countries With a description of the Panama, Suez, Manchester, Nicaraguan, and other canals. by J. Stephen (James Stephen) Jeans

The grandest truths, imperfectly perceived in the twilight of incipient science, serve as stumbling-blocks for conceited speculators, as well as landmarks on the boundaries of knowledge to true philosophers, who will ever imbibe the spirit of Newton's celebrated saying: "I seem to myself like a child gathering pebbles on the shore, while the great ocean of knowledge lies unexplored before me;" or the profound remark of Humboldt: "What is seen does not exhaust that which is perceptible."
— from Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity by Robert Patterson

All conditions of life being more or less disquieted either with the cares of gaining or of keeping money, it is but natural that mankind should be allured by the idea of discovering and utilising an easy and quick road to riches.
— from Light Come, Light Go: Gambling—Gamesters—Wagers—The Turf by Ralph Nevill

There are several different methods which are practised—namely, Plain Bob, Grandsire, Oxford or Kent Treble Bob, Stedman's Principle, Cambridge, London and Superlative Surprise, and Double Norwich Court.
— from Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 725, November 17, 1877 by Various

You recollect all this—the 19th of April, 1851, Boston delivering an innocent man at Savannah to be a slave for ever, and that day scourged in his jail while the hirelings who enthralled him were feasted at their Inn;—Anniversary week last year—a Boston Judge of Probate, the appointed guardian of orphans, kidnapping a poor and friendless man!
— from The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence by Theodore Parker

Of the manner and extent to which he took our trumps into custody, and came out with mean little cards at the ends of hands, before which the glory of our Kings and Queens was utterly abased, I say nothing; nor, of the feeling that I had, respecting his looking upon us personally in the light of three very obvious and poor riddles that he had found out long ago.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

We are told that the Seljūks, in A.H. 426 (1035), helped Mas`ūd to drive the rest of the Ghuz out of Khorāsān, but the alliance did not survive this campaign; and thus, while Mas`ūd was absent in Ghazna in the following year, we find his lieutenant in Khorāsān engaged in hostilities with the Seljūks.
— from The Heart of Asia A history of Russian Turkestan and the Central Asian Khanates from the earliest times by Ross, E. Denison (Edward Denison), Sir

He knew Jerry was courting a granddaughter of old Krenda’s.
— from Red Rock: A Chronicle of Reconstruction by Thomas Nelson Page

Camp, Kirtland,—explanation concerning, note 42 ; organization of, 87 , et seq ; constitution of, 90 , 91 ; assembling of, near Kirtland Temple, 98 , 99 ; journal of, 87 - 148 ; journal of, daily, 99 ; end of, 147 ; exodus of from Kirtland, 100 ; number of families and members of, 100 ; departs from Chester, 101 ; renewal of covenants by, 101 ; additional rules for, 102-3 ; passes through Columbus, Ohio, 106 ; Sunday service in, 107 , 112 , 116 , 117 , 123 , 140 ; return of deserters to, 108 ; military salute of, 108 ; several brethren of arrested to satisfy claims growing out of Kirtland Society money, 108 ; brethren arrested rejoin camp, 109 : arrival of, in prairie country 109 ; beauty of encampment of, 110 ; assaulted 112 , 113 ; leaders of again threatened with arrrest, 113 ; reprimanded by leaders, 114 , 115 ; travels on the national road, 115 , overtakes John E. Page's Canadian company of Saints near Dayton, 117 ; takes contract of work on Springfield Dayton Turnpike, 118 , 120 ; part of take contract raising a levee for Mr. Hushman, 119 , 125 , 129 ; an assistant council of three appointed for, 121-2 ; expulsion of members of, 128 ; preparations to leave encampment near Dayton, 130 , 131 , 132 ; moves from Dayton, Ohio, 132-3 ; enters state of Indiana, 133 ; Voorhees stage incident, 135 and note; passes through Terrehaute, Ind., 136 ; enters state of Illinois, 137 ; question of breaking up of, 137 ; sickness in, 138 ; passes through Springfield, Ill., 139 ; halters by the way, 140 ; reorganization of, 143 ; trouble at Far West heard of by, 143 ; threatened with being halted at Huntsville, 144 , proposition to disband rejected, 144-5 ; arrival of, at Grand {469} Rapids.
— from History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Volume 3 by Smith, Joseph, Jr.