Though then in our time, be not suffered That testimonie of love, unto the dead, To die with them, and in their graves be hid, 250 As Saxon wives, and French soldurii did; And though in no degree I can expresse Griefe in great Alexanders great excesse, Who at his friends death, made whole townes devest Their walls and bullwarks which became them best: 255 Doe not, faire soule, this sacrifice refuse, That in thy grave I doe interre my Muse, Who, by my griefe, great as thy worth, being cast Behind hand, yet hath spoke, and spoke her last.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

Such formerly was my own impression, often avowed in this Chamber; but I never doubted its complete efficacy to render Slavery unconstitutional in all such places, so that “no person” could be held as a slave at the national capital or in any national territory.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 11 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

We should laugh at, or rather, pity the man who would try to persuade us that there is no difference in color, etc., between the Scandinavian and the African, and yet it is by some considered little short of heresy to affirm, that there is an imparity in their minds as well as in their bodies.
— from The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by Gobineau, Arthur, comte de

Of course you now recognize his portrait; or have I not drawn it clearly enough?"
— from An Ambitious Woman: A Novel by Edgar Fawcett

Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 2.4% (FY02) Transnational Issues Namibia Disputes - international: commission established with Botswana to resolve small residual disputes along the Caprivi Strip, including the Situngu marshlands along the Linyanti River; Botswana residents protest Namibia's planned construction of the Okavango hydroelectric dam on Popa Falls; managed dispute with South Africa over the location of the boundary in the Orange River; dormant dispute remains where Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe boundaries converge; Angolan rebels and refugees still reside in Namibia
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

But though intelligence, as known to us in man, is always hedged within limits, there is no difficulty in conceiving each and every limit as removed.
— from Theological Essays by Charles Bradlaugh

As the original is not divided into chapters, end of page footnotes have been converted into endnotes.
— from The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge by William Morgan