This William Sevenoke, son to William Rumsched of Sevenoke in Kent, was by his father bound an apprentice with Hugh de Bois, citizen and ferrer of London, for a term of years, which being expired in the year 1394, the 18th of Richard II., John Hadley being mayor of London, and Stephen Spilman, chamberlain of the Guildhall, he alleged that his master had used the trade or mystery of a grocer, and not of a ferrer, and therefore required to be made free of the grocers’ company, which was granted.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

I was anxious that no one, when fairly embarked upon my actual narrative, should feel at a loss, and have to ask what were the designs entertained by the Romans, or the forces and means at their disposal, that they entered upon those undertakings, which did in fact lead to their becoming masters of land and sea everywhere in our part of the world.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

Yarker further observes that "even Wren was more or less a student of Hermeticism, and if we had a full list of Freemasons and Rosicrucians we should probably be surprised at the numbers who belonged to both systems."
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

In other words, he dismisses the distinction founded on the threefold mode of life, and so decreases the whole number by two-thirds, reducing the sects to ninety-six.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

In what relates to the making of likenesses, and similarly of other things.
— from Protagoras by Plato

As he alighted, came a monk, and prayed him to go see a tomb in the churchyard, wherefrom came such a great and hideous noise, that none could hear it but they went nigh mad, or lost all strength.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

If so, he will contradict himself; for it is admitted that one soul is not more or less a soul than another, and therefore one can not he more or less harmonized than another, and one could not admit of a greater degree of virtue or vice than another; and indeed a soul, being harmony, could not partake of vice at all, which is discord.
— from Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato

Petition on behalf of several persons interested in a patent granted by the late King William and Queen Mary for the making of linen and sail-cloth, praying that no charter may be granted to any persons whatsoever for making sail-cloth, but that the privilege now enjoyed by them may be confirmed, and likewise an additional power to carry on the cotton and cotton-silk manufactures.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

No woman desirous of leaving a tolerated house to change her mode of life, and support herself honestly, can be retained against her inclination, and no difficulties may be thrown in the way of her doing so; nor will the master be allowed to force her to remain, even though she may be in his debt, under the penalty of the loss of his permission from the police.
— from The History of Prostitution: Its Extent, Causes, and Effects throughout the World by William W. Sanger

Instead of chastising the disaffection of the Koreish, he endeavored to cut out their tongues, (his own expression,) and to secure their attachment by a superior measure of liberality: Abu Sophian alone was presented with three hundred camels and twenty ounces of silver; and Mecca was sincerely converted to the profitable religion of the Koran.
— from History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 by Edward Gibbon

— How, in drawing a Face, to give it Grace, by the Management of Light and Shade.
— from A Treatise on Painting by da Vinci Leonardo

And now, before turning the page, and leaving the period that had, on the whole, been full of brightness, will be the best time to give Mr. Codrington's account of the manner of life at St. Barnabas, while the Bishop was still in his strength:— 'Certainly one of the most striking points to a stranger would have been the familiar intercourse between the Bishop and his boys, not only the advanced scholars, but the last and newest comers.
— from Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

We see his mysterious power resolved in that drawing into a simple matter of light and shade, arranged in accordance with certain optical laws.
— from Leading Articles on Various Subjects by Hugh Miller

Every steamer, especially those engaged in making long voyages, has a paint-shop on board, more or less abundantly supplied with all necessary material.
— from Asiatic Breezes; Or, Students on The Wing by Oliver Optic

Primula sinensis.—The flower-stems, the upper and lower surfaces of the leaves and their footstalks, are all clothed with a multitude of longer and shorter hairs.
— from Insectivorous Plants by Charles Darwin

The winter was memorable on land and sea for its severity, and our hero's first voyage was a stormy one.
— from Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made by James Dabney McCabe

They think as Napoleon thought of men of letters and savans:—"Ce sont des coquettes avec lesquelles il faut entretenir un commerce de galanterie, et dont il ne faut jamais songer à faire ni sa femme ni son ministre."
— from Studies in Literature by John Morley

There is something especially touching in the sight of restrained emotion, and as the Vicar thought of his own two daughters, his heart was very tender over the girl whose parents were separated from her by six thousand miles of land and sea.
— from The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 991, December 24, 1898 by Various