This is how it read: "Later the Kaiser received the French Consul, also a Jewish deputation which presented him with an album of pictures of the Jewish colonies in Palestine.
— from The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl

Note 15 ( return ) [ Since some skeptical persons are willing to discard this Book of Esther as no true history; and even our learned and judicious Dr. Wall, in his late posthumous Critical Notes upon all the other Hebrew books of the Old Testament, gives none upon the Canticles, or upon Esther, and seems thereby to give up this book, as well as he gives up the Canticles, as indefensible; I shall venture to say, that almost all the objections against this Book of Esther are gone at once, if, as we certainly ought to do, and as Dean Prideaux has justly done, we place this history under Artsxerxes Longimanus, as do both the Septuagint interpretation and Josephus.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

I went to the Japanese department with Prof. Morse who is a well-known lecturer.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

Heed therefore what I say; and keep in mind What Jove decrees, what Phoebus has design’d,
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

Certainly, if he should be consulted, Jupiter would in no case do what those three gods, Mars, Terminus, and Juventas, did, who positively refused to give place to their superior and king.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

The gallantry of Ensign Joseph Dyas was proclaimed to the world in Wellington’s account of the two assaults of San Christoval, but for all that a grateful War Office allowed him to remain a subaltern for ten years longer!
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

There lie buried in this church, William Andrew, Stephen Clamparde, Lawrence Warcam, John Dagworth, William Porter, Robert Scarlet, esquires.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

[Stamped by owner: John D. Warren, Physician & Surgeon.]
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

O. N B Jenkins, David, Waldemar O Jenkins, Edward, Hibernia, W. O. N B Jenks, John W., Parrsborough N S Jerway, Samuel, Upper Buctouche, W. O. N B Jewett, S. C., Lower Wakefield, W. O. N B Jiggens, Sarah, Leeds Q Jimerson, Ira, South Ely Q Jobin, G., St. Bazile Q Jobin, Marie S., Isle Perrot Q Johnson, Robert, Nile O Johnson, David W., Powers Court Q Johnson, Benjamin, Marmora O Johnson, Caleb, Melville O Johnson, J. D., Wyandot O Johnson, Lionel H., Wallaceburg
— from List of Post Offices in Canada, with the Names of the Postmasters ... 1872 by Canada. Post Office Department

At the age of eighteen she was living on the western coast of Ireland with her old father, when she fell in love with handsome Jack Darcy, whose persuasive blue eyes were enough to melt the heart of the most obdurate woman; the merriest, wittiest, best-tempered lad for miles around, the owner of a small farm and numberless family traditions that counted back to the time when "Malachi wore the collar of gold, He won from the proud invader."
— from Hope Mills; Or, Between Friend and Sweetheart by Amanda M. Douglas

This was Sunday the 17th of September, being one month since my departure from Rio de Janeiro, during which period I had been almost continually on horseback; for the time I remained at Villa Rica was principally occupied in journies to various places in the neighbourhood.
— from Travels in the interior of Brazil with notices on its climate, agriculture, commerce, population, mines, manners, and customs: and a particular account of the gold and diamond districts. by John Mawe

On Jan. 23, 1856, six petitions in one bill were referred to the judge of the district court for the first judicial district with power to dissolve marriage: ibid.
— from A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 3 of 3 by George Elliott Howard

Paquita la Sevillane , by Jan Diaz , was published in the Echo du Morvan , a review which for eighteen months maintained its existence in spite of provincial indifference.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

John Daniel, who published Songs for the Lute, Viol, and Voice , 1606, is supposed to have been the brother of the poet, and the publisher of his works in 1623.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 179, April 2, 1853. A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

The sailor-king of narrow mind but broad sympathies, just departed when Peel wrote, had not proved a cipher.
— from Disraeli: A Study in Personality and Ideas by Walter Sichel

By the direction of the Judge Duny was privately brought to Elizabeth Pacy , and she touched her Hand: whereupon the Child, without so much as seeing her, suddenly leap'd up and flew upon the Prisoner; the younger was too ill, to be brought unto the Assizes.
— from The Witchcraft Delusion in New England: Its Rise, Progress, and Termination, (Vol. 1 of 3) by Robert Calef