"Wherever the country is poor," cried Arthur Young, "it is in the hands of metayers," and "their condition is more wretched than that of day-laborers."
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

p. 4-16;) and in the first book of the Vandalic War, by the impartial Procopius, (c. 7, 8, p. 196, 197, 198, 199.)
— 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

Whom, not long after our conversion and regeneration by Thy Baptism, being also a faithful member of the Church Catholic, and serving Thee in perfect chastity and continence amongst his people in Africa, his whole house having through him first been made Christian, didst Thou release from the flesh; and now he lives in Abraham's bosom.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Galileo! Darwin, and I——" (Prolonged cheering and complete interruption.)
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

But in modern times, and in Protestant countries perhaps more than in Catholic, we have been too much inclined to identify the historical with the moral; and some have refused to believe in religion at all, unless a superhuman accuracy was discernible in every part of the record.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

Si Raja Nyila is, in fact, the name sometimes given to the long slender wands with fine nooses at the end with which the wild pigeon are snared, the name being clearly an allusion to its pretended character.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Nay, more, I consider it as the only form of building in which happiness is attainable, and were I rich enough I would instantly pull Combe down, and build it up again in the exact plan of this cottage." "With dark narrow stairs and a kitchen that smokes, I suppose," said Elinor.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

According to informed press comment at the time, it was the intention of the White House to carry out the recommendation to this effect made by the President's Committee [Pg 276] on International Information Activities.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

The world has already its convictions—prejudices, the philosophy of Kulturkampf may call them—in regard to all such things, and no law that an infidel parliament can enact will suffice to eradicate them.
— from Pius IX. And His Time by Æneas MacDonell Dawson

The result is not, perhaps, what either you or I desired, as it will occasion disappointment to many; but it is unavoidable, and the less to be regretted, since a contest, wherein one of the combatants must fight under disadvantages so manifest as those I should have to contend against, after many years' retirement from practical chess, with my attention absorbed and my brain overtaxed by more important pursuits, could never be accounted a fair trial of skill.
— from The Exploits and Triumphs, in Europe, of Paul Morphy, the Chess Champion by Frederick Milnes Edge

[12] Including Professor Cheyne, Encyc.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Isaiah, Volume 2 (of 2) by George Adam Smith

Sometimes it is lawful to kill, no public precognition preceeding; but then only, when the cause evidently requires that it should be done, and public authority cannot be got: For in that case, a private man is publicly constitute the minister of justice, as well by the permission of God, as the consent of all men.
— from A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Alexander Shields

There, in 1549-52, the Church, under Archbishop Hamilton, Beaton’s successor, had been confessing her iniquities in Provincial Councils, and attempting to purify herself on the lines of the tolerant and charitable Catechism issued by the Archbishop in 1552.
— from A Short History of Scotland by Andrew Lang

The question is probably considered too simply—too much to the neglect of concurrent influences.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 22 Juvenilia and Other Papers by Robert Louis Stevenson

Now I, too, have received instructions for the part I have the honour of performing before you, and it behoves both you and me to profit by the terrible warning I have detailed, while I endeavour to make the part I have undertaken as plain and intelligible as I possibly can.
— from Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens

The first hypothesis therefore of his, Parmenides, in which all things are denied of this immense principle, concludes as follows: "The one therefore is in no respect.
— from Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato by Thomas Taylor