I have inserted M. St. Martin's observations, but I must add, that the chronology which he proposes, is not generally received by Armenian scholars, not, I believe, by Professor Neumann.—M.]
— 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

Many a man with actual ability to hold a high position is not given an opportunity to do so because the men who employ him realize that he would antagonize those who worked under him.
— from The Book of Business Etiquette by Nella Braddy Henney

“Besides,” added Little Dusty, the youngest boy in the company, “his puppies is no good anyway.
— from The Guardsman by Homer Greene

A detective who loves his profession is no gabbler.
— from The House of the Whispering Pines by Anna Katharine Green

[30] The knowledge of a soldier’s life which Shakespeare exhibited in his plays is no greater and no less than that which he displayed of almost all other spheres of human activity, and to assume that he wrote of all or of any from practical experience, unless the evidence be conclusive, is to underrate his intuitive power of realising life under almost every aspect by force of his imagination.
— from A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles by Lee, Sidney, Sir

I found the French by far the most difficult, chiefly on account of the accent, which my master himself possessed in no great purity, being a Norman by birth.
— from Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest by George Borrow

When possible a gateway will be used for the passage of the troops, and if the gate cannot be taken off its hinges a man should be detailed to hold it open till the column has passed; if no gateway exists a gap must be made.
— from Night Operations for Infantry Compiled for the Use of Company Officers by C. T. Dawkins

He felt she was a sacred as well as a precious charge, and he promised himself to attend to her spiritual salvation in so far as her pure instincts needed guidance.
— from The King of Schnorrers: Grotesques and Fantasies by Israel Zangwill