The imagination of man is naturally sublime, delighted with whatever is remote and extraordinary, and running, without control, into the most distant parts of space and time in order to avoid the objects, which custom has rendered too familiar to it.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

the dear skins which we had cased for the purpose of holding our dried meat is not Sufficently dry for that purpose, we derected them to be dried by the fire also.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

And although from a wider point of view one may fully recognise the value of this effect, and may even reject with horror the wish for a 'happy ending,' this wider point of view, I must maintain, is not strictly dramatic or tragic.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

As a result of their illness one or more of the family are said to have died, though that matter is not stated definitely.
— from The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

“You know I never eat; moreover, I never sit down at a table where I may meet persons who are unknown to me.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

I am confidous my lady would be angry with me for mentioning it; and I shall draw myself into no such delemy."
— from Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1 by Henry Fielding

will you say that the T'ai mountain is not so discerning as Lin Fang?' CHAP.
— from The Analects of Confucius (from the Chinese Classics) by Confucius

The field work of the state was finished with the close of the season last fall, and the drawing of the maps is now substantially done.
— from The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. I., No. 1, October, 1888 by Various

It would be difficult at any time, impossible in the short space at our disposal, to explain the peculiar action and reaction of Greek art upon Greek religion; we must content ourselves with noting the fact that the two were absolutely inseparable—that the religion owed its influence over men's minds in no small degree to the power of art, is as indisputable as that art gained enormously in dignity and strength 12 by being considered as the greatest exponent of religion, and by all its most important achievements being consecrated to that service.
— from Giotto by Harry Quilter

For in so holy thynges to speake a mysse is no small danger.
— from A dialoge or communication of two persons Deuysyd and set forthe in the late[n] tonge, by the noble and famose clarke. Desiderius Erasmus intituled [the] pylgremage of pure deuotyon. Newly tra[n]slatyd into Englishe. by Desiderius Erasmus

The fact that a tribe situated north of Suisun Bay does not appear in the records of either of these missions is noteworthy, since during the 1820's and 1830's the north-bay groups were brought to them in large numbers, and since we know from Altimira's comment on Duran's raid that the Ompines were still in existence in 1823.
— from The Aboriginal Population of the San Joaquin Valley, California by Sherburne Friend Cook

Milton is not so dull as he once was, nor perhaps Ainsworth so amusing.
— from Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers by Robert Louis Stevenson

The streets are what they were four hundred years ago,—with one exception; population no longer swarms there; the social movement is now so dead that a traveller wishing to examine the town (as beautiful as a suit of antique armor) may walk alone, not without sadness, through a deserted street, where the mullioned windows are plastered up to avoid the window-tax.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

John McEachen South Side of West Margaree, W. O. Margaree Inverness N S D. E. McKay [6] South Stukely Stukely Shefford Q Luke H. Knowlton South West Mabou,
— from List of Post Offices in Canada, with the Names of the Postmasters ... 1873 by Canada. Post Office Department