When you hear the call of the homeland after long residence “east of Suez,” you must answer the call, duty not forbidding.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

Letters Gibbon, i. 9.—M.] I. We have already described the religious harmony of the ancient world, and the facility with which the most different and even hostile nations embraced, or at least respected, each other's superstitions.
— 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. We have already described the religious harmony of the ancient world, and the facility * with which the most different and even hostile nations embraced, or at least respected, each other's superstitions.
— 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

While Caesar gave orders that the statues of Sulla which had been thrown down by the mob of the capital on the news of the battle of Pharsalus should be re-erected, and thus recognized the fact that it became history alone to sit in judgment on that great man, he at the same time cancelled the last remaining effects of Sulla's exceptional laws, recalled from exile those who had been banished in the times of the Cinnan and Sertorian troubles, and restored to the children of those outlawed by Sulla their forfeited privilege of eligibility to office.
— from The History of Rome, Book V The Establishment of the Military Monarchy by Theodor Mommsen

That word "language" replaced every other sentiment, and so it became a curse to the development of liberty.
— from Select Speeches of Kossuth by Lajos Kossuth

And, indeed, it would be difficult to find in the entire course of Greek history any other two great statesmen who, in spite of differences of character and of outward conditions of life, resembled each other so greatly, and were, as men, so truly the peers of each other, as Pericles and Epaminondas."
— from Mosaics of Grecian History by Robert Pierpont Wilson

And, looking round, every one saw the dark, starlike eyes of Zara gleaming through the darkness at them.
— from A Bitter Heritage: A Modern Story of Love and Adventure by John Bloundelle-Burton

Hackney was seemingly once one of the many congregating “Londons,” and we may recognise Elen or Ollan in London Fields, London Lane, Lyne Grove, Olinda (or Good Olin) Road, Londesborough Road, Ellingfort (or Strong Ellin) Road, Lenthall (or Tall Elen) Road.
— from Archaic England An Essay in Deciphering Prehistory from Megalithic Monuments, Earthworks, Customs, Coins, Place-names, and Faerie Superstitions by Harold Bayley

La Rochelle, effigy of Shrove Tuesday burnt on Ash Wednesday at, iv.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12) by James George Frazer

There is but just enough of evil or even of passion admitted into their sweet spheres of life to proclaim them living: and all that does find entrance is so tempered by the radiance of the rest that we retain but softened and lightened recollections even of Shylock and Don John when we think of the Merchant of Venice and Much Ado about Nothing ; we hardly feel in As You Like It the presence or the existence of Oliver and Duke Frederick; and in Twelfth Night , for all its name of the midwinter, we find nothing to remember that might jar with the loveliness of love and the summer light of life.
— from A Study of Shakespeare by Algernon Charles Swinburne