In that immortal copy The conscience of us all Can read without its glasses On revelation's wall.
— from Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Emily Dickinson

In the course of disposing of the quack last mentioned, Governor Ide gets on rather a high horse, asking, with much dignified indignation, “How many people in the United States would have known or cared whether the army was or was not ordered out in Samar in 1904?”
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

First, That in the passage of Light out of Glass into Air there is a Reflexion as strong as in its passage out of Air into Glass, or rather a little stronger, and by many degrees stronger than in its passage out of Glass into Water.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

Since his unfortunate experiences in England, the loss of his fortune and the failure of his efforts to obtain congenial and remunerative employment in Germany or Russia, he had come to concentrate his efforts on a return to his native city.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

And equally, of course, she oughtn’t to have paid the slightest attention to it but just let it go on ringing and ringing.
— from Bliss, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

And he who obeys this law will do a noble action; but he who will not obey, and gives or receives more than fifty drachmae as the price of the marriage garments if he be of the lowest, or more than a mina, or a mina-and-a-half, if he be of the third or second classes, or two minae if he be of the highest class, shall owe to the public treasury a similar sum, and that which is given or received shall be sacred to Here and Zeus; and let the treasurers of these Gods exact the money, as was said before about the unmarried—that the treasurers of Here were to exact the money, or pay the fine themselves.
— from Laws by Plato

and did the like there, and I gave one receipt for all the money I have received thence upon the receipt of my Lord’s crusados.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

While opening any part of the vessel, F B, which overlies the artery, it is necessary to proceed with caution, as well because of the fact that between the artery, C, and the vein, F B, the fascia alone intervenes, as also because the ulnar artery is given off rather frequently from the main vessel at this situation, and passes superficial to the fascia and flexors of the forearm, to gain its usual position at K, Plate 15.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

As if the sun should stop when he had kindled his fires up to the splendor of a moon or a star of the sixth magnitude, and go about like a Robin Goodfellow, peeping in at every cottage window, inspiring lunatics, and tainting meats, and making darkness visible, instead of steadily increasing his genial heat and beneficence till he is of such brightness that no mortal can look him in the face, and then, and in the meanwhile too, going about the world in his own orbit, doing it good, or rather, as a truer philosophy has discovered, the world going about him getting good.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

"Some remedy must be found for this intolerable grievance," observed Roger Nowell, after a few moments' reflection.
— from The Lancashire Witches: A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth

In glorious order roll...." -94- By the middle of the 18th century in England, one could say with Horne "that the Newtonian System had been in possession of the chair for some years;"
— from The gradual acceptance of the Copernican theory of the universe by Dorothy Stimson

The School of Perigord By far the most important group of Romanesque churches employing the dome on spherical pendentives, is situated in that portion of France extending around the city of Périgueux, and constitutes what is known as the architectural school of Perigord.
— from Mediaeval Church Vaulting by Clarence Ward

She appeared to say something, which was replied to by an impatient gesture of refusal, and M. de Véron turned again towards the altar.
— from Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 447 Volume 18, New Series, July 24, 1852 by Various

"Your information is somewhat sketchy, my dear Constance; but no doubt the outline is correct as far as it goes," observed Rivers.
— from That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 1 by Frances Eleanor Trollope

With all their scepticism, the people of those days had a great fund of tradition about everything; they were floating about a good deal, I admit, but they were fully persuaded of the existence of certain very solid moral rocks, to which they might always tie their boat when it grew over-rough; rocks of religion or deistic mysticism, or of social convenances , which we have now discovered to be by no means granite, but some sort of sea deposit, of hardened sand, whose formation we understand and no longer rely upon.
— from Belcaro; Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions by Vernon Lee

Senna is grown, or rather collected, in all the districts of Aheer; but it is cheap now, and does not fetch the price in Tripoli which it formerly did; many other as suitable purgatives being found in [103] Europe, I suppose.
— from Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government by James Richardson

We must take it with us, for doubtless we shall need it 'gainst our return."
— from Edgar the Ready: A Tale of the Third Edward's Reign by W. P. Shervill

Mr. Albany Todd drifted away to the more congenial atmosphere of a dowager duchess's dower-house in the Highlands, where it is to be hoped that his conversational qualities were more brilliantly displayed than in the irreverent gaiety of Rackham.
— from The Summons by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason