Now I find your Profession has been to defraud the English crown, to which you should be on your knees in Reverence, and to injure the cause of honest Merchants, who are the lifeblood of this Christian nation.
— from Caribbee by Thomas Hoover

Of its ancient glories there remain only the splendid causeway, still kept in repair, and the inns encountered at short distances apart, many of them once grand hostelries.
— from The Land of Fire: A Tale of Adventure by Mayne Reid

Hence the knowledge of every knower is ruled according to its own nature.
— from Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

"You speak as if you know," I replied, and turning I saw a man of grave demeanour, and of somewhat sad countenance.
— from The Coming of the King by Joseph Hocking

In almost every home through bright and sunny Australia we find a piano and a sewing machine, and yet either of these costs far more than an ice chest, and perhaps as much to keep in repair as the ice to fill it.
— from The Art of Living in Australia Together with Three Hundred Australian Cookery Recipes and Accessory Kitchen Information by Mrs. H. Wicken by Philip E. Muskett

There is, indeed, a land in which knowledge is respected, and that is America.
— from Joyous Gard by Arthur Christopher Benson

Some person was killed, and one of that person's family killed another in return; then another was killed in revenge, and thus it has continued until the present.
— from Biography and Family Record of Lorenzo Snow One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Eliza R. (Eliza Roxey) Snow

After the Presidential election of 1876, the North abandoned its attempt to reconstruct the South and to keep it reconstructed according to its standard of justice and political proportion.
— from The Ballotless Victim of One-Party Governments The American Negro Academy, Occasional Papers No. 16 by Archibald Henry Grimké

The diameter of this is something short of twelve feet, it is surrounded by a shallow trench, which collects the water and voids it eastward; it is firmly built with sod or earthen turf, brought from the sides, and constantly kept in repair, and this is the altar upon which all their religious ceremonies are performed.
— from Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, Volume 3 (of 5) In the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773 by James Bruce

This is what Kant is really asserting, though in a hesitating manner which would seem to indicate that he is himself already more or less conscious of its unsatisfactory and un-Critical character.
— from A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' by Norman Kemp Smith