I next drew up that will to which you so much objected; so that if anything befell me in the person of Dr. Jekyll, I could enter on that of Edward Hyde without pecuniary loss.
— from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

In the American Hebrew, for September 10, 1920, an article appears which not only acknowledges and explains the part which the Jew plays in the present unrest and upheaval, but justifies it—and justifies it, curiously enough, by The Sermon on the Mount.
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

But, as oft Alchimists doe coyners prove, So may a selfe-dispising, get selfe-love, And then as worst surfets, of best meates bee, 40 Soe is pride, issued from humility, For, 'tis no child, but monster; therefore Crosse Your joy in crosses, else, 'tis double losse.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

The above judgement is complete evidence that we are accustomed to think that reason is not affected by sensuous conditions, that in it no change takes place—although its phenomena, in other words, the mode in which it appears in its effects, are subject to change—that in it no preceding state determines the following, and, consequently, that it does not form a member of the series of sensuous conditions which necessitate phenomena according to natural laws.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

As for those things that of themselves are altogether indifferent, as in my best judgment I conceive everything to deserve more or less, so I carry myself towards it.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

Julian in Caesaribus Eutropius, viii.
— 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

I've observed you,” said Jackson in calm, even tones, showing not a trace of excitement.
— from The Scouts of Stonewall: The Story of the Great Valley Campaign by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

to the memory of the unfortunate princes of the house of Stuart, James III., Charles Edward, and Henry, Cardinal of York.
— from Italian Days and Ways by Anne Hollingsworth Wharton

PRECEPT III.—Avoid strange or unauthorized words: such as, flutteration, inspectator, judgematical, incumberment, connexity, electerized, martyrized, reunition, marvelize, limpitude, affectated, adorement, absquatulate .
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

However, if you like jealousy, I can easily take it up."
— from Dorothy, and Other Italian Stories by Constance Fenimore Woolson

Abingdon, a typical frontier town, II; Adventure , the, voyage of, II; Algonquins, the, their location, I; dwellings and dress; their relations with the Iroquois and the southern Indians; tribal relations; their numbers; lack of cohesion; numbers in the field; their prowess in war; their mode of war; their discipline in battle; their superiority to European troops; usually the attacking party; their cruelty Allaire, Lieut., a New York loyalist, II; Alleghanies, the, our western border for a century and a half, I; America, its importance and accessibility, I; twofold character of warfare in; Spain's share in the conquest of; difference between the Spanish-English conquests in; constant succession of contests in; her allies hostile to her interests, II; Americans, a distinct people from the British, I; western conquest, the great work of the; their sharpshooters dreaded by the British officers, II; as soldiers, Appendix; Appalachian Confederacies, the, I; their geographical position; origin of the name; how divided; numbers; Australia, small difficulty in settling; Axe, the, its importance in the conquest of the west; Backwoods levies, the character of; Backwoodsmen, the, of Kentucky, I; of the Alleghanies; little in common with the tide-water inhabitants; Americans by birth and parentage; Scotch-Irish, the dominant strain in their blood; from one people; their creed, Presbyterian; their intense Americanism; their difference from the rest of the world; their villages; not a town-building race; won and kept their lands by force; their natural weapons; their forts; their mode of life; size of farms; society, dress, and arms; their first lesson; their helpfulness; sports and quarrels; weddings; funerals; schooling; home employments; pack-trains; dangers of life; as hunters; warlike character; their own soldiers; military organization; administration of justice; sharp contrasts of society among; wickedness of the lawless among; their summary modes of punishment; their superstitions; their religion; summary of their lives; desire for revenge; hasten to join Lewis; assemble at the great levels of Greenbriar; march of Lewis' army; grimness of their character, II; gather at Bryan's Station; defeated at the Blue Licks; fate of the captured; their increase during the Revolution; their wars; governments instituted by them; their individualism; character of the pioneer population; what they had done at the close of the Revolution; Balme La, his expedition against Detroit, II; Baubin captures Boon, II; Bear Grass Creek, ravaged by Indians, II; Big Bone Lick, remains of mastodon discovered at, I; Big Foot, a gigantic chief of the Wyandots, II; fight with Andrew Poe, 134; killed by Adam Poe; Big Island of the French Broad, the; Christian's army reach, I; Bingaman, his fight in the dark, II; Bird, Capt. Henry, dissolution of his expedition, II; his inroad; his retreat; loses his cannon; Blue Licks, visited by Boon, II; Indians retreat to; the backwoodsmen reach; the fight begins; battle of the; defeat of the whites; a wild panic; the Indians checked; a crushing disaster; Boiling Springs, fort built at, I; Boon, Daniel, his birth, I; removes to North Carolina and marries; his passion for hunting and exploration; his appearance; his character; his inscription on a tree; connection with Henderson; his claim to distinction; his success; goes to Kentucky; beauty of the country and abundance of game; attacked by Indians; capture and escape; wanderings; joined by his brother; lonely sojourn in the wilderness; joined by other hunters; "Gulliver's Travels" in camp; returns to North Carolina; meets the McAfees' at Powell's Valley; attempts to settle Kentucky; attacked by Indians; his son killed; pilots in Lord Dunmore's surveyors; in command of frontier forts; attacked by Indians; reaches the Kentucky River; begins to build Boonsborough; welcomes Henderson's company; the fort at Boonsborough; returns to North Carolina for his family; his prominence in Kentucky history; serves as a Kentucky burgess in the Virginia Legislature; his strange life; his daughter captured by Indians and rescued; the historic tree; original letter of; wounded in the attack on Boonsborough, II; captured by Indians; taken to Old Chillicothe; adopted into the Shawnee tribe; escapes from the Indians; makes a foray into the Indian country; outwits de Quindre; thanks Kenton for saving his life; comes to the rescue of Kenton; a favorite hero of frontier story; loses his brother by the Indians; lieut.-colonel under Todd; marches to relieve Bryan's Station; opposed to the attack at Blue Licks; commands the left wing at battle of Blue Licks; his successful advance; surrounded and routed; last to leave the field; his son Isaac slain; Boon, Squire, joins his brother Daniel in Kentucky, I; Boonsborough, founding of, saves Kentucky, I; receives Henderson and his party; completion of the fort; land office opens at; store opened by the Transylvania company; meeting of the Transylvanian Legislature; attacked by Indians, II; again besieged; retreat of the Indians; school opened at; Boon's Station, not Boonsborough, II; Borderers, the, misdeeds of, I; contempt for Pennsylvanian government; Border Wars, the, inevitable, I; begun by the Indians; struggle for the land, one great cause of; Bowman, John, advances against Vincennes, II; attacks Chillicothe; defeated by the Indians Brady, Capt. Samuel, a noted Indian fighter, II; captured and bound to the stake; escapes; whips the Indians; Brant, Joseph, surprises Loughry, II; defeats Squire Boon and Floyd British, the, incite the southern Indians to war against the Americans, I; hatred of, inherited by the sons and grandsons of the backwoodsmen; their intrigues with the Indians; scalp-buying, II; begun a war of extermination; their complicity in the Indian murders; in the Southern States; defeated at King's Mountain; Brodhead, Col., in command at Fort Pitt, II; burns some Iroquois towns; prevents the militia from attacking the Moravians; Bryan's Station, attack on, II; danger of procuring water; the settlers rally to the relief of Buford, Captain, routed by Tarleton, II Butler, his party attacked by Cherokees, I Cahokia, converted to the American cause, II; council at Caldwell, Capt., a good commander of irregular troops, II; commands Canadian volunteers; defeats Crawford at Sandusky; wounded; invades Kentucky; letter from, Appendix; California, the winning of, I; Calk, William, his journal of Henderson's journey, II; Callahan, Edward, a privileged character, II; Cameron, the British agent in the Cherokee country, I; attempt to capture him; leads his tories and the Cherokees against South Carolina; organizes expeditions against the frontier, II; Campbell, Arthur, his character, II; misses the battle of King's Mountain; his jealousy; Campbell, William, his appearance and character, II; anecdotes of; raises troops to oppose Cornwallis; made commander-in-chief; encourages his men on the eve of battle; begins the assault at King's Mountain; rallies his troops; manifesto to his troops; death of Canada, extension westward of the English race in, I; Canadian archives, II, Appendix; Carolinas, the, attacked by Indians and tories, I; Carpenter, a Cherokee chief, I; signs the treaty of the Sycamore Shoals; Carter's Valley, ravaged by the Indians, I; Castleman, his escape from death, I; Charleston captured by the British, II; Cherokees, the, in the barbarous rather than savage state, I; divided into the Otari and the Erati; their numbers; and location; not successful fighters; their dwellings; character; games and amusements; renegade bands of; their great war trail; treaty with Virginia; negotiations opened with; the Otaris assemble at the Sycamore Shoals of the Watauga; irritated at the conduct of the frontiersmen; take up the tomahawk at the bidding of the British; begin the war on the frontier; numbers of their warriors; suddenness of their attack; fall upon the Watauga settlers; ravage Carter's Valley; defeated by the whites at the battle of the Island Flats; the Watauga fort besieged; retreat from the Watauga; ravage the Georgian and Carolinian frontiers; come down the Catawba; their furious attacks on South Carolina; their country invaded; towns destroyed; again attacked; defeat of the Indians; destruction of the Cherokee settlements; the warriors gather at the Big Island of the French Broad; flight of the Indians; sue for peace; destruction of Tuskega; peace declared; their severe chastisement; defeated by Sevier, II; their country overrun; the country of the Erati ravaged by Sevier; sue for peace; attack Nashborough; Chicago, attempted settlement of, II Chickamaugas, the, a tribe of freebooters, I; their fastnesses; refuse to make peace; their towns burned; Chickasaws, the, belonged to the Appalachian Confederacy, I; the smallest of the Southern nations; their numbers; their unity; their wars and successes; definite peace concluded with, II; Chillicothe, attacked by Boon, II; burned; Chippewas, the, location of, I; Choctaws, the, an Appalachian tribe, I; the rudest of the confederacy; their location; numbers; character; Christian, Col. William, commands the Fincastle men, I; refused permission to march with Lewis; reaches the Great Kanawha after the battle; gathers the Virginia troops at the Great Island of the Holston; marches against the Cherokees; reply to the Cherokees; destroys the Indian towns; agrees to terms of peace; marches homeward; Chronicle, killed at King's Mountain, II; Civil war on the border, I; Clark, George Rogers; compared to Allen and Marion, I; relieves a party of hunters in Kentucky; with Cresap at the outbreak of Lord Dunmore's war; his character; accompanies Lord Dunmore; arrives at Harrodstown; sent to Virginia as a delegate; presents petition to Governor and Council; asks for gunpowder; transports it in safety to Kentucky; procures the erection of Kentucky County; living at Harrodstown, II; shares in the defence of Kentucky; skirmishes with the Indians; matures his plans for the Illinois campaign; goes to Virginia to raise troops; incidents of travel; lays his plans before Patrick Henry; authorized to raise troops; organizes the expedition; difficulty in raising men; starts down the Ohio; lands at the mouth of the Kentucky; reaches the Falls of the Ohio; joined by Kenton and the Kentuckians; meets a party of hunters; the march to Kaskaskia; surprises the town; a dramatic picture; his diplomacy; his winning stroke; sends troops to Cahokia; his difficulties; prepares for defence; establishes friendly relations with the Spanish authorities; dealings with the Indians; apprehensive of treachery; puts the Indians in irons; his seeming carelessness; offers peace or war to the Indians; makes peace with the Indians; his influence over them; prepares to resist Hamilton; narrow escape from the Indians; receives news of Vincennes; determines to strike the first blow; equips the first gunboat on the Western waters; marches against Vincennes; reaches the drowned lands of the Wabash; hardships and sufferings of his troops; encourages his troops; difficulties of approach to Vincennes; crosses the Horse Shoe Plain; exhaustion of the troops; surprises Vincennes; attacks the fort; summons the fort to surrender; destroys a scouting party; surrender of the fort; reproaches Hamilton; importance of the result of the expedition; sends Helm to intercept a convoy; disposes of his prisoners; receives reinforcements; pacifies the country; builds a fort on the Mississippi; moves to the Falls of the Ohio; made a brigadier-general; greatness of his deeds; hears of Bird's inroads; his campaign against Piqua; musters his troops at the mouth of the Licking; starts up the Ohio; burns Chillicothe; surprises the Indians at Piqua; disperses the Indians; destroys the town; disbands his army; effects of the victory; his plan to attack Detroit; why his efforts were baffled; commandant of State troops; roused by the battle of the Blue Licks; his counter-stroke; destroys the Miami towns; undertakes to supply the settlements with meat; Clay MSS., II, Appendix; Cleavland, Col. Benjamin, commands North Carolina militia, II; commands left wing at King's Mountain; Clinch River, settlers of, at war with Shawnees, I; a feeder of the Tennessee River; Conolly, Capt. John, his hostilities against Pennsylvania, I; his rashness; his open letter; appalled by the storm he had raisen; holds councils with Delawares and Iroquois; defied by the Shawnees; Cornstalk, a Shawnee chief, I; first heard of in Pontiac's war; opposed to the war with the whites; his strategy; advances to attack Lewis; crossing the Ohio; fails to surprise Lewis' army; displays the only generalship at the battle of the Great Kanawha; bids defiance to his foes; sues for peace; his eloquence; his grand death Cornwallis, Lord, in command at the South, II; marches through the up-country; retreats from North Carolina; Crab Orchard, regarded with affection by travellers, I; Crawford, Col. William, a fairly good officer, II; marches against Sandusky; routed; captured; tortured; a valued friend of Washington Creeks, the, made up of many bands, I; strongest of the Appalachian tribes; their numbers; location; semi-civilization of; their cattle and slaves; agriculture; mode of life; towns; houses; council-house; dress and adornments; red and white towns of; feasts and dances; looseness of the Creek Confederacy; the Chief McGillivray; their hostility to the whites; scalps, their ideal of glory; observe a kind of nominal neutrality; incited by the British to war; their reply to the Cherokees; ravage the Georgia frontier; Creoles, the, of Kaskaskia, II; panic among, at the loss of Vincennes; French abandon the Illinois country; unfit for self-government; Cresap, a type of the pioneer, I; with his band at Wheeling; attacks friendly Shawnees; continues hostilities; accused of the murder of Logan's kinsfolk; deposed from his command; restored by Lord Dunmore; a scout with Lord Dunmore; dies a revolutionary soldier; Cruger, Lieut.-Col.
— from The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783 by Theodore Roosevelt

July Independent Chapel, Edgworth Moor, near Bolton Damaged Ann.
— from Lightning Conductors: Their History, Nature, and Mode of Application by Anderson, Richard, F.C.S.

This he calls "the greatest joy I can ever have in this world after her death."
— from Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II by Henry Vaughan

And although advantages of this kind, whether postal, commercial, or political, can not confer constitutional power, yet they may furnish auxiliary arguments in favor of expediting a work which, in my judgment, is clearly embraced within the war-making power.
— from State of the Union Addresses by James Buchanan

Lollie was a hardened veteran campaigner, twenty-two years of age, and full two years’ trench-age—which means a lot more—and he started to return from his latest leave with a pleasing consciousness of his own knowledge of the ropes, and a comforting belief that he would be able to make his return journey in comparative ease.
— from Front Lines by Boyd Cable

“Jenny, I cannot explain.
— from A Day in a Colonial Home by Della R. Prescott