Now Dame Venus hath fitted women with two herbs of one name, the one to help conception, and the other to maintain beauty, and what more can be expected of her?
— 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 breezes freshen at his prayer, and now the harbour opens out nearer at hand, and a temple appears on the Fort of Minerva.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

It is in the firm conviction that the history of human civilization should be made an object of as scientific a treatment as the history of organic nature that I write this book.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

To the Church of Laodicea therefore, and to the household of one Nymphas who was a prominent member of it, he sends greeting.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

A constant hammering on one nail will generally drive it home at last, so that it can be clinched.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

In such society all other aims seemed poor and petty; for they appeared to live in a nobler world than any she had known, and she felt as if they belonged to another race; not men nor angels, but a delightful mixture of the two; more as she imagined the gods and heroes of old; not perfect, but wonderfully strong and brave and good; each gifted with a separate virtue, and each bent on a mission that should benefit mankind.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

Knit off the stitches of the first needle after the seam; then on to two spare needles, cast on, 8 more stitches than you had on one needle after dividing the stitches; put the stitches of the third and fourth needles together and knit the first round plain.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

He never makes his habitation on or near the ground, and in fact seldom descends from his elevation unless in search of food or water.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Stevens, J.A. Coffee houses of old New York.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

He was neither in his own opinion, nor by profession, a religious man; but the teachings of a pious mother had laid deep in his young heart the foundation of faith and love.
— from Lion Ben of Elm Island Elm Island Stories by Elijah Kellogg

He has some silly idea in his head about the honor of our name, and won't press matters unless he is forced to."
— from Red Money by Fergus Hume

The Crusades had been merely an episode [Pg 17] in the history of other nations.
— from Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

Therefore, the object of special analysis of wealth into which we have presently to enter will be not so much to enumerate what is serviceable, as to distinguish what is destructive; and to show that it is inevitably destructive; that to receive pleasure from an evil thing is not to escape from, or alter the evil of it, but to be altered by it; that is, to suffer from it to the utmost, having our own nature, in that degree, made evil also.
— from Unto This Last, and Other Essays on Political Economy by John Ruskin

In most cases American-manufactured goods were handled by houses of other nationality, who often gave scant attention to promoting American trade and used American products only when those of their own nation could not be obtained.
— from An American Diplomat in China by Paul S. (Paul Samuel) Reinsch