The two sons of Alexius, John and Isaac, maintained the fraternal concord, the hereditary virtue of their race, and the younger brother was content with the title of Sebastocrator , which approached the dignity, without sharing the power, of the emperor.
— 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

Yet this savage hero was not inaccessible to pity; his suppliant enemies might confide in the assurance of peace or pardon; and Attila was considered by his subjects as a just and indulgent master.
— 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

Yes, today is the first of January, and I must go to the cathedral.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

I have found no instances of the Italianated form earlier than Jonson, and it may be original with him.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

It seemed to him just as if Mrs. Ch'in was walking ahead of him.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

The chapter must refer to your Jesus, and I must soon acknowledge that He is the promised Messiah."
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

The most certain and necessary truth was to Plato the universal; and to this he was always seeking to refer all knowledge or opinion, just as in modern times we seek to rest them on the opposite pole of induction and experience.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

My curiosity got the better of my judgment, and I mounted a horse and rode to the front to see what was going on.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Of course I did, though John thought not; at least I knew as much as this—that John and I must go at the top of our speed, and that it was for the sake of the mistress.
— from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

I neither deny nor affirm that, in times past, some other race, possessed of judgment and intelligence, made these things, and others which we have not seen.
— from The travels of Pedro de Cieza de Léon, A.D. 1532-50, contained in the first part of his Chronicle of Peru by Pedro de Cieza de León

There isn't an unprejudiced man in the whole army who wouldn't say you were acting well within your rights; just as, I must say, my dear fellow, you've acted splendidly throughout.
— from By Right of Sword by Arthur W. Marchmont

Miss Jenny Ann, Mrs. Preston and Miss Betsey were crawling out of the phaeton when Mr. Preston led three of the girls back to [157] "I can't go home, Jenny Ann," insisted Madge.
— from Madge Morton's Trust by Amy D. V. Chalmers

“Wonderful as the adventures of Joan are, it must be admitted that they are very naturally worked out and very plausibly presented.
— from Tom Thatcher's Fortune by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

In general, it must be remembered the patient's attitude of mind in these cases of pain around joints and in muscles is extremely important.
— 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

Tuesday morning took the mail-car to Connemara, and had company all the way—a judge, an Irish M.P., and two Dublin drummers—with whom I talked over the Irish problem.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

Because each nation has its own history of thieving and lies and broken faith, therefore there can only flourish international suspicion and jealousy, and international moral shame becomes anæmic to a degree of ludicrousness.
— from Nationalism by Rabindranath Tagore