But we are not blissfully safe, in having of our endless joy, till we be all in peace and in love: that is to say, full pleased with God and with all His works, and with all His judgments, and loving and peaceable with our self and with our even-Christians and with all that God loveth, as love beseemeth.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

The history of our English translations of "Don Quixote" is instructive.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Take of Bole-ammoniac, red Coral, of each an ounce, Balaustines, Terra Lemnia, white Starch, of each half an ounce, Hypocistis, the seeds of Henbane, Opium, of each two drams, juice of Plantain so much as is sufficient to make them into troches according to art.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

The German huts, open, on every side, to the eye of indiscretion or jealousy, were a better safeguard of conjugal fidelity, than the walls, the bolts, and the eunuchs of a Persian haram.
— 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

Let me hear one of ‘em—the best.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Turn her out, or else, my girl, I’ll get you locked up for good.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But this difficulty will vanish, if we consider, that though we are here supposed to have had only one experiment of a particular effect, yet we have many millions to convince us of this principle; that like objects placed in like circumstances, will always produce like effects; and as this principle has established itself by a sufficient custom, it bestows an evidence and firmness on any opinion, to which it can be applied.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Whether species have often or ever been modified through this comparatively sudden mode of transition, I can form no opinion; but if this has occurred, it is probable that the differences between the young and the mature, and between the mature and the old, were primordially acquired by graduated steps.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

Omar Khayyam was born at Naishapur in Khorassan in the latter half of our Eleventh, and died within the First Quarter of our Twelfth Century.
— from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam

He has a way of His own of 'emptying the earth of the inhabitants thereof.'
— from The Life of John Taylor Third President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints by B. H. (Brigham Henry) Roberts

(1665, No. 231.) XLI .—Those who wish to define victory by her birth will be tempted to imitate the poets, and to call her the Daughter of Heaven, since they cannot find her origin on earth.
— from Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims by François duc de La Rochefoucauld

We shall each have our own end to hold up; and it will take each of us all our time and understanding to get through his own tasks.
— from The Jewel of Seven Stars by Bram Stoker

Meanwhile, the progress of scientific experiment has outrun our expectations.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

He had, in fact, discovered and turned to man's use the very heartbeats of our earth.
— from The Boy's Book of New Inventions by Harry E. (Harry Edward) Maule

Anyhow, nought evil came to her out of Evilshaw.
— from The Water of the Wondrous Isles by William Morris

He seemed to think himself too good for them; and in addition to that, the seaman-like qualities which he displayed made them dislike him out of envy.
— from The Pilot and his Wife by Jonas Lie

Where Mr. Gladstone has seen this treaty we cannot guess; for, though he calls it a “known treaty,” we will stake our credit that it is quite unknown both at Calcutta and Madras, both in Leadenhall Street and Cannon Row, that it is not to be found in any of the enormous folios of papers relating to India which fill the book-cases of members of Parliament, that it has utterly escaped the researches of all the historians of our Eastern empire, that, in the long and interesting debates of 1813 on the admission of missionaries to India, debates of which the most valuable part has been excellently preserved by the care of the speakers, no allusion to this important instrument is to be found.
— from Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 4 With a Memoir and Index by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

Hearts of oak, etc. David Garrick .
— from Old Ballads by Various

Has she not a grand object to pursue for eighteen hours out of every twenty-four?
— from General Bounce; Or, The Lady and the Locusts by G. J. (George John) Whyte-Melville