Accordingly, before day I was in the saddle, attended by all my staff; rode to the extreme left of our position near Chickamauga Creek; thence up the hill, held by General Lightburn; and round to the extreme right of General Ewing.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

If we had been assured that we should secure the lives of our present numbers, there would have been more vivacity and hope in our councils.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The real value of the landlord's share, his real command of the labour of other people, not only rises with the real value of the produce, but the proportion of his share to the whole produce rises with it.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Several days later, while Professor Foote and I were studying the ruins near Rosaspata, Señor Pancorbo, returning from his rubber estate in the San Miguel Valley and learning at Lucma of our presence near by, took great pains to find us and see Page 267 how we were progressing.
— from Inca Land: Explorations in the Highlands of Peru by Hiram Bingham

Of the lowest order of animals, the Radiates , nearly the same may be said that was remarked above respecting the lowest order of plants; namely, that their species are in a less degree bound to certain limits of geographical distribution than those in which the respective types hasten in more marked characters to the highest possible perfection.
— from The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis, Sir

The works of La Marmora, Captain, now Admiral, Smyth, and Mr. Warre Tyndale, had seemingly exhausted the subject, with a success the mere Rambler can make no pretensions to rival; but the former being a foreign work, and the two latter out of print, neither of them is easily accessible.
— from Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. by Thomas Forester

You ought to blush, and I ought to blush, and he—well, he’s a little out of practice now.
— from Mark Twain's Speeches by Mark Twain

Statutes, the subject of this book; are comparatively recent; making law a new discovery; declare the law; importance of in modern times; our study sociological; early nature of; early English, what are in force in the United States; began to be in English A.D. 1463; when should be unconstitutional; limitations upon individualism; proper classification of; form of; no authenticated revision usually; present functions; method of enacting; many laws of doubtful authority; lack of official publication; need of scientific draftsmen; reforms recommended; indexing and arrangement; final discussion of the system of statute-making; difficulty of interpreting; their general uncertainty; Statutes of the realm, the earliest sociological statute about 1100; Stevenson, G.T., quoted; Stock certificates, not negotiable; Stock Exchange, rules of, customary law.
— from Popular Law-making A study of the origin, history, and present tendencies of law-making by statute by Frederic Jesup Stimson

The time for the departure of Laud out of prison now drew nigh, and Margaret wrote to her uncle, [Pg 301] requesting him to come and see her, which he did; and she then gave him full powers to withdraw the 130 guineas from Mr. Smith, and requested him to pay £100 into the hands of Mr. Ripshaw on a certain day; namely, the 5th of March, the day previous to Laud’s term of imprisonment expiring.
— from The History of Margaret Catchpole, a Suffolk Girl by Richard Cobbold

He is too confirmed a conspirator to be long out of Paris; no place like Paris for seething brains.”
— from The Parisians — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

If in perceiving empty space we are only apprehending a manifestation of our perceiving nature, what we apprehend in a geometrical judgement is really a law of our perceiving nature, and therefore, while it must apply to our perceptions of objects or to objects as perceived, it cannot apply to objects apart from our perception, or, at least, there is no ground for holding that it does so.
— from Kant's Theory of Knowledge by H. A. (Harold Arthur) Prichard