It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

“But—” Don objected, “what connection is there between an accident years ago and the excitement that has gotten into some of the newspapers and made a reporter call our new development ‘Mystery Airport?’” “Ever read the ‘Proceedings’ and other books of the Society for Psychical Research?”
— from The Ghost of Mystery Airport by Van Powell

There was great need of the prayers of Cotton Mather and of all pious men, not only on account of the sufferings of the people, but because the old moral and religious character of New England was in danger of being utterly lost.”
— from The Whole History of Grandfather's Chair Or, True Stories from New England History, 1620-1808 by Nathaniel Hawthorne

"It seems to have been reserved," says Hamilton in the very first number of the Federalist , "to the people of this country by their conduct and example, to decide the important question whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force."
— from The Promise of American Life by Herbert David Croly

But I shall make a regular corps of negro soldiers, he added.
— from Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred by John Lewis Burckhardt

A skill in horsemanship that was the wonder of the world, the eye for a country hastily traversed, the memory for the spot once seen, the power of rapid mobilisation and of equally rapid disappearance, the gift of being a knight one day, a shepherd or a peasant the next—these were the attributes that made a Roman conquest of Numidia so long impossible and rendered diplomacy imperative as a supplement to war.
— from A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones) Greenidge

In this manner a rich citizen of Nuremberg, Conrad Heinz, surnamed der Grosse , founded the hospital of the Holy Ghost, in 1331.
— from A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 2 (of 2) by Johann Beckmann