"I should learn everything then," she said to herself, still walking quickly along the bridle road through the wood.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

ns of the good in seeking life everlasting, they should be loved as enemies, and be dealt with patiently.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

The average or ordinary price of corn, again is regulated, as I shall likewise endeavour to shew hereafter, by the value of silver, by the richness or barrenness of the mines which supply the market with that metal, or by the quantity of labour which must be employed, and consequently of corn which must be consumed, in order to bring any particular quantity of silver from the mine to the market.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

John Robinson, their pastor, who was providentially prevented from accompanying them, in his farewell address to the exiles said: “Brethren, we are now erelong to part asunder, and the Lord knoweth whether I shall live ever to see your faces more.
— from The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan by Ellen Gould Harmon White

When the deathless spirit has dropped its "mortal coil," and visited with electric wing the luminous, [Pg 239] life-giving sun and the mighty cities on its spacious bosom, and graduated in the universities of heaven, it will discover that eternity is scarcely long enough to study and enjoy the marvelous creations of the universe.
— from The Universe a Vast Electric Organism by Geo. W. (George Woodward) Warder

Dear Lucy , I should like exceedingly to see you if it were possible before sailing for America, and your letter has made me wish more than ever to do so.
— from The Life of Sophia Jex-Blake by Graham Travers

exclaimed the worthy mother, "that I should live ever to see paintings of such people!
— from Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" by James Fenimore Cooper