No longer the lowly Lamb of God, no longer the meek Jesus of Nazareth, no longer the Man of Sorrows, no longer the Good Shepherd, He is seen now coming upon the clouds, in great power and majesty, attended by nine choirs of angels, angels and archangels, principalities, powers and virtues, thrones and dominations, cherubim and seraphim, God Omnipotent, God Everlasting.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

But a final purpose is merely a concept of our practical Reason, and can be inferred from no data of experience for the theoretical judging of nature, nor can it be applied to the cognition of nature.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

The final drink-offering should have been made to Jove or Neptune, not to the god of thievishness and rascality of all kinds.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

The grand solstitial festival, the Aswamedha, or sacrifice of the horse (the type of the sun), practised by the children of Vaivaswata, the ‘sun-born,’ was most probably simultaneously introduced from Scythia into the plains of Ind, and west, by the sons of Odin, Woden, or Budha, into Scandinavia, where it became the Hi-el or Hi-ul, [19] the festival of the winter solstice; the grand jubilee of northern nations, and in the first ages of Christianity, being so near the epoch of its rise, gladly used by the first fathers of the church to perpetuate that event [20] [25].
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Hiul, or Jul, of northern nations (qu. Noel of France?), is the Hindu Sankrānti, of which more will be said hereafter.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

In fifteen minutes the long journey of Ned Napier and his chum Alan Hope to the far southwest was to begin.
— from The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure by H. L. (Harry Lincoln) Sayler

I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races; that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say, in addition to this, that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 4: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates by Abraham Lincoln

1897 Millington, Rev. E. J. O. Newark, N. J. Pres. Eloped with married woman; brought back; begged pardon.
— from Crimes of Preachers in the United States and Canada by M. E. Billings

From Frederick Leighton's little parties, where Joachim or Norman Neruda played to a chosen few, the beautiful Mrs. Mortimer and her delightful husband were seldom missing.
— from The Way of Ambition by Robert Hichens

She went so far as to fall foul on a young woman who has had imputations; but whether they were just or not, no one knows but herself.
— from The Tatler, Volume 4 by Steele, Richard, Sir

Sidney, anxious always to learn what he did not know, could only sit with mouth wide open, while the other declared Jesus of Nazareth, Noah, the flood, Adam and Eve, and all the rest, the biggest liars the world ever knew.
— from The Forged Note: A Romance of the Darker Races by Oscar Micheaux

He sought to keep on friendly and useful relations with other circles than those of Scholastic theology, such as with learned Humanists, and a short time before, with Luther himself and his colleague Carlstadt, to whom he had been introduced through a jurist of Nüremberg named Scheuerl.
— from Life of Luther by Julius Köstlin