Our travellers found by this that they were a good, sober sort of people, and flying for their lives, as they were; and, as they were encouraged by it, so John said to the joiner, his comrade, 'Let us encourage them too as much as we can'; so he called to them, 'Hark ye, good people,' says the joiner, 'we find by your talk that you are flying from the same dreadful enemy as we are.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

Let us endeavour to treat at large of the establishment of magistrates, beginning from first principles.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

Why spend ye your time and labour upon earthly things that are at an end?
— from The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

If the troops run out of ammunition on the [146] firing-line, they cannot retire, but must keep their line unbroken, even though they are all killed.
— from Defenseless America by Hudson Maxim

Let us, then, for a while, lay aside any conventional method of estimating our life,—a method in which that life fills a large space, simply because it is brought near to the eye,—and let us endeavor to take a view of it, as it were, from the fixed stars, or from the elevation of the immortal state.
— from The Crown of Thorns: A Token for the Sorrowing by E. H. (Edwin Hubbell) Chapin

Let us endeavour to take a rapid view of the implements of agriculture in common use at the present time—implements which have been described as "intended not to [Pg 131] bring about new conditions of soil, nor to yield new products of any kind, but to do with more certainty and cheapness what had been done hitherto by employing the rude implements of former centuries."
— from Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. by Charles Knight

While the May violets are in bloom, let us enjoy them and be thankful; and when the autumn flowers are come to take their places, let us enjoy those, too, and thank God.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

Let us examine these types a little more closely, confining ourselves as far as possible to the British Empire, past and present, because within it we can find nearly all the instruction we need.
— from The Framework of Home Rule by Erskine Childers

Let us examine this theory and ascertain how tenable it is.
— from The Voice: Its Production, Care and Preservation by Frank E. (Frank Ebenezer) Miller

Nevertheless, with our tame domestic lantern, let us endeavour to throw a little prosaic light over the details of a scene that has been irradiated by the imagination of a Byron.
— from An Algonquin Maiden: A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada by G. Mercer (Graeme Mercer) Adam