There is a short but difficult gully here on the side facing Wastdale, which was climbed by Messrs. Owen Jones and Robinson in 1893, but described by them under the name of Tom Blue , a rock much higher up the mountain.
— from Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England by W. P. (Walter Parry) Haskett Smith

A great advantage of Indian or Cobbett's corn is, that it occupies the ground for little more than half the year: it is planted in May or June, and ripens in November.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 383, August 1, 1829 by Various

In more primitive conditions, courage, as necessary to the preservation of society, is regarded as a virtue in itself; later, some mixture of judgment and reason is required in its exercise; and finally, since it may be combined with other anti-social qualities, it is not approved in the same manner as the more directly social virtues.
— from A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Cora May Williams

It has, however, been noticed as early as about the middle of April, and as late as the middle of July, and rarely in August and September.
— from The Butterflies of the British Isles by Richard South

Second Head of my Discourse, and that is, to shew, that the literal History of the Miracles of Jesus , as recorded in the Evangelists , does imply Absurdities, Improbabilities and Incredibilities; consequently they, in whole or in part, were never wrought, but are only related as parabolical Narratives of what would be mysteriously, and more wonderfully done by him.
— from Six Discourses on the Miracles of Our Saviour, and Defences of His Discourses by Thomas Woolston

The Blackfeet, Bloods, and Piegans (located at the Blackfeet Agency, on the Teton River, about seventy-five miles from Fort Benton), the Gros Ventres, Assinaboines, the River Crows, about 1000 of the Northern Arapahoes and Cheyennes, and the Santee and Yankton Sioux (located at the Milk River Agency, on the Milk River, about one hundred miles from its mouth), occupy jointly a reservation in the extreme northern part of the Territory, set apart by treaties (not ratified) made in 1868 with most of the tribes named, and containing about 17,408,000 acres.
— from A Century of Dishonor A Sketch of the United States Government's Dealings with Some of the Indian Tribes by Helen Hunt Jackson

The modern tendency to confound holiness with love shows itself in the merging of justice and righteousness in mere benevolence.
— from Systematic Theology (Volume 1 of 3) by Augustus Hopkins Strong

4. King Richard having got intelligence of Bolingbroke’s invasion, says, upon his landing in England from his Irish expedition, in a mixture of joy and resentment, —— I weep for joy To stand upon my kingdom once again.
— from Elements of Criticism, Volume III. by Kames, Henry Home, Lord

[There appeared in Once a Week (1865) a paper entitled "The Maroons of Jamaica," and reprinted in Every Saturday (i. 50, Jan. 31, 1866), in which Gov. Eyre is quoted as having said, in the London Times , "To the fidelity and loyalty of the Maroons it is due that the negroes did not commit greater devastation" in the recent insurrection; thus curiously repeating the encomium given by Lord Balcarres seventy years before.
— from Black Rebellion: Five Slave Revolts by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Infinitely tender in the depth of understanding is this gem of art, and A Living Relic’s perfection is determined by Turgenev’s scrutiny of the warp and woof of life, in which the impassive forces of Nature, indifferent alike to human pain or human happiness, pursue their implacable way, weaving unwittingly the mesh of joy, anguish, resignation, in the breast of all sentient creation.
— from Turgenev: A Study by Edward Garnett