As soon as he was fastened to the stake, and the fagots lighted, he addressed the spectators as follows: The cause why I suffer this day is not for any crime, (though I acknowledge myself a miserable sinner) but only for the defence of the truth as it is in Jesus Christ; and I praise God who hath called me, by his mercy, to seal the truth with my life; which, as I received it from him, so I willingly and joyfully offer it up to his glory.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

“No,” said Matilda, “if a parent lets fall a word, and wishes it recalled, it is not for a child to utter it.”
— from The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

This change took place in the summer of 1710, and the inclination toward peace was strengthened both by the favorable position in which England then stood for treating, and by the heavy burden she was bearing; which it became evident could bring in no further advantages commensurate to its weight.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

LXIII Against my love shall be as I am now, With Time's injurious hand crush'd and o'erworn; When hours have drain'd his blood and fill'd his brow With lines and wrinkles; when his youthful morn Hath travell'd on to age's steepy night; And all those beauties whereof now he's king Are vanishing, or vanished out of sight, Stealing away the treasure of his spring; For such a time do I now fortify Against confounding age's cruel knife, That he shall never cut from memory My sweet love's beauty, though my lover's life: His beauty shall in these black lines be seen, And they shall live, and he in them still green.
— from Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare

My reason is now free and clear, rid of the dark shadows of ignorance that my unhappy constant study of those detestable books of chivalry cast over it.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

steepy night, And all those beauties whereof now he’s king Are vanishing, or vanished out of sight, Stealing away the treasure of his spring: For such a time do I now fortify Against confounding age’s cruel knife, That he shall never cut from memory
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

To have an open ear, a quick eye, and a nimble hand, is necessary for a cut-purse; a good nose is requisite also, to smell out work for th' other senses.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

It is named from a cross which it bears on one side, the arms of Portugal being on the other.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

France was then, as it is now, fickle and capricious, fantastical and wavering, but not from indifference, but because she was always ready to borrow from every quarter anything which pleased her.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

Most persons think that it is necessary for a city to be large to be happy: but, should this be true, they cannot tell what is a large one and what a small one; for according to the multitude of the inhabitants they estimate the greatness of it; but they ought rather to consider its strength than its numbers; for a state has a certain object in view, and from the power which it has in itself of accomplishing it, its greatness ought to be estimated; as a person might say, that Hippocrates was a greater physician, though not a greater man, than one that exceeded him in the size of his body: but if it was proper to determine the strength of the city from the number of the inhabitants, it should never be collected from the multitude in general who may happen to be in it; for in a city there must necessarily be many slaves, sojourners, and foreigners; but from those who are really part of the city and properly constitute its members; a multitude of these is indeed a proof of a large city, but in a state where a large number of mechanics inhabit, and but few soldiers, such a state cannot be great; for the greatness of the city, and the number of men in it, are not the same thing.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

It is navigable for a considerable distance, but is frozen for about four months each year.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Deposition to Eberswalde Volume 4, Part 1 by Various

Obviously, the nature and proportion of the individual products formed in any digestive experiment are dependent greatly upon the attendant conditions; but even with a large amount of active ferment, an abundance of free hydrochloric acid, a proper temperature, and a long-continued period of digestion, even five and six days, there is never found a complete conversion into peptone.
— from On Digestive Proteolysis Being the Cartwright Lectures for 1894 by R. H. (Russell Henry) Chittenden

One, commanded by General Casey, stationed itself at Fair Oaks farm, and the other, under General Couch, entrenched itself at the cross-roads near Seven Pines, which derives its name from a clump of pine trees, from which the battle fought here derives its name.
— from Battles of the Civil War by Thomas Elbert Vineyard

In the year 1513, Henry VIII., King of England, and Maximilian I. of Germany, invaded northern France and captured several towns.
— from With Spurs of Gold: Heroes of Chivalry and their Deeds by Dolly Williams Kirk

Were it not for a casual passage in a speech of Æschines, we should hardly have known more than of their existence.
— from Tradition, Principally with Reference to Mythology and the Law of Nations by Arundell of Wardour, John Francis Arundell, Baron

The prince royal remained two hours with us: he is now freer, and can leave his father more easily, because his brothers, Albert and Clement, are in Warsaw.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 by Various

According to the existing theory, indispensable for hypocrisy, man is not free and cannot change his life.
— from The Kingdom of God is Within You / Christianity and Patriotism / Miscellanies by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Voting is by secret ballot, and an absolute majority of all votes cast is necessary for a choice.
— from The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg

COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA.—Received its name from a council being held there in 1804 between Lewis and Clark's Expedition and a party of Ottoe and Missouri Indians.
— from The Story of the First Trans-Continental Railroad Its Projectors, Construction and History by William Francis Bailey