It was the fact, however, that in general, the Armenians, whom the Greeks accused of following the Jacobite errors, retorted upon members of the Greek Church with the reproach of the opposite heresy of Nestorianism.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa
Let no man, who has read my father’s first and second beds of justice, ever rise up and say again, from collision of what kinds of bodies light may or may not be struck out, to carry the arts and sciences up to perfection.——Heaven!
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
Let no man, who has read my father's first and second beds of justice, ever rise up and say again, from collision of what kinds of bodies light may or may not be struck out, to carry the arts and sciences up to perfection.—Heaven!
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
One which provoked us to criticise the management strongly; but journalistic ethics reined us in.
— from Behind the News: Voices from Goa's Press by Various
In 1913 448 cases were deported to England, Ireland, Scotland, Jamaica, Judea, Egypt, Russia, United States, Austria, Guadeloupe, France, Italy, Normay, Germany, Australia, Switzerland, Greece and Belgium.
— from Montreal, 1535-1914. Vol. 2. Under British Rule, 1760-1914 by William H. (William Henry) Atherton
Our understanding (such as it is, and must remain to be good for anything) is not a thoroughfare for common places, smooth as the palm of one’s hand, but full of knotty points and jutting excrescences, rough, uneven, overgrown with brambles; and I like this aspect of the mind (as some one said of the country), where nature keeps a good deal of the soil in her own hands.
— from Hazlitt on English Literature: An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by William Hazlitt
The fact that such a realm as that of Japan existed remained unknown in Europe until about six centuries ago, when Marco Polo, in his famous record of travel and adventure, first spoke of it.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 12 (of 15), Japanese and Chinese by Charles Morris
Pfleiderer, in New World, Sept. 1899, doubts whether Jesus ever really uttered the words “ give his life a ransom for many ” ( Mat. 20:28 ).
— from Systematic Theology (Volume 2 of 3) by Augustus Hopkins Strong
I should therefore suppose that she had just enough reliance upon Providence to prevent a naturally cheerful mind from being corroded by discontent: but it is easy to see that she had not those comprehensive views, which teach that the very best of selfish pleasures, those of intellectual cultivation, are to be pursued as a means only, not as an end, and that the grand design for which we are created is to diminish continually our concern for ourselves in an increasing love of God and our neighbour.”
— from Principle and Practice: The Orphan Family by Harriet Martineau
Oder haben jene ein Recht, uns anzuklagen, die ihre {105} pleased if the ship, which for many months past has been of aid to the enemy and has done us harm, could have been destroyed without the necessity of this catastrophe befalling its passengers.
— from The Lusitania's Last Voyage Being a narrative of the torpedoing and sinking of the R. M. S. Lusitania by a German submarine off the Irish coast, May 7, 1915 by Lauriat, Charles Emelius, Jr.
Will earthly justice ever render unto us the hoped-for reparations?
— from My Own Affairs by Princess of Belgium Louise
Joe Emson rose up and took hold of his big beard.
— from Diamond Dyke The Lone Farm on the Veldt - Story of South African Adventure by George Manville Fenn
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