Its perfection is the result of nothing more difficult to attain than painstaking attention to detail, and its possession is within the reach of every woman who has the means to invite people to her house in the first place.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

I shall take up my present Time in commenting upon a Billet or two which came from Ladies, and from thence leave the Reader to judge whether I am in the right or not, in thinking it is possible Fine Women may be mistaken.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

8 We may assert, with greater confidence, that the keen air of Germany formed the large and masculine limbs of the natives, who were, in general, of a more lofty stature than the people of the South, 9 gave them a kind of strength better adapted to violent exertions than to patient labor, and inspired them with constitutional bravery, which is the result of nerves and spirits.
— 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

While he endeavoured to reform the profusion in the public expenditure, which prevailed in the reign of Nero, he ran into the opposite extreme; and it is objected to him by some historians, that he maintained not the imperial dignity in a degree consistent even with decency.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Going northward, we find in the region of Normandy the place of growth of that fierce but strong folk, the ancient Scandinavians, who, transplanted there, held their ground, and grew until they were strong enough to conquer Britain and give it a large share of the quality which belongs to our own state.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

They penetrate into the recesses of nature and show how she works in her hiding-places.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The fortifications of Carthage had alone been exempted from the general proscription; but in the reign of ninety-five years they were suffered to decay by the thoughtless and indolent Vandals.
— 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

And without considering, without noticing whether there was anyone in the room or not, he flung his arms round her, and began to cover her face, her hands, her neck with kisses.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Whether a scientific characterization of inclination is possible, whether the limits of this concept can be determined, and whether it is the result of nature, culture, or both together, are questions which can receive no certain answer.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Aristotle had spoken of an intelligence, happy and self-contemplative, who was the principle of movement in the heavens, and through the heavens in the rest of Nature.
— from Interpretations of Poetry and Religion by George Santayana

In that realm of nature which is not of man's devising [5] motion is universal.
— from Bill's School and Mine: A Collection of Essays on Education by William S. (William Suddards) Franklin

Some of the bolder spirits had ventured into the realm of natural wonders now known as Yellowstone Park, and had viewed with amazement and awe the strange geysers that spouted hot water hundreds of feet in the air at stated periods, as well as many other singular mysteries.
— from The Pioneer Boys of the Columbia; or, In the Wilderness of the Great Northwest by St. George Rathborne

" "Both Indies" have grown to-day to include the resources of nearly the whole extra-European world which the command of the sea placed at the disposal of the Entente and denied to the Central Empires; and the last great war, like those against Napoleon, Louis XIV, and Philip II, was decided by the same indispensable factor in world-power.
— from A Short History of the Great War by A. F. (Albert Frederick) Pollard

In certain sensitive men whose power over their bladder is disturbed by self-consciousness, the presence of anyone in the room or near them, makes it impossible for them to urinate, and this is particularly true if they are lying down.
— from Psychotherapy Including the History of the Use of Mental Influence, Directly and Indirectly, in Healing and the Principles for the Application of Energies Derived from the Mind to the Treatment of Disease by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

Insert one-half of a strip of filter paper in the milk and allow it to remain over night.
— from The Mother and Her Child by William S. (William Samuel) Sadler

Though classed with the "sea ducks" (Fuligulinae) it is one of the most common of our fresh-water forms, and, like many other animals, as well as vegetable forms, of wide distribution, it is the recipient of numerous popular names, nearly all of them being more or less suggestive of its characteristics or habits.
— from Birds and Nature, Vol. 08, No. 4, November 1900 Illustrated by Color Photography by Various

Jan Mayen Military Military - note: defense is the responsibility of Norway Jan Mayen Transnational Issues Disputes - international: none ====================================================================== @Japan Japan Introduction Background: While retaining its time-honored culture, Japan rapidly absorbed Western technology during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

The permission of evil, however, whether in the realm of nature or of humanity, when, after their first divine impulse, they are left for a time to pursue their own course of internal development, is clearly something of another and peculiar kind.
— from The philosophy of life, and philosophy of language, in a course of lectures by Friedrich von Schlegel

He said it was very necessary that the Third Reader should be well grounded in the rudiments of number.
— from Emmy Lou: Her Book and Heart by George Madden Martin