The national debt amounted to 3000 millions of livres, the revenue to 145 millions, and the expenses of government to 142 millions per annum; leaving only three millions to pay the interest upon 3000 millions.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

In that part of Upper Saxony, beyond the Elbe, which is at present called the Marquisate of Lusace, there existed, in ancient times, a sacred wood, the awful seat of the superstition of the Suevi.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

In his intercourse with individuals, and even with his wife Livia, upon subjects of importance he wrote on his tablets all he wished to express, lest, if he spoke extempore, he should say more or less than was proper.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

I have come here from my own land to do what I can of good; at the first to please my friend John, and then to help a sweet young lady, whom, too, I came to love.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

This had more or less taken place in Glanvill's time, and then all that a party had to do was to produce the writing and satisfy the court by inspection that the impression on the wax fitted his opponent's seal.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Although in his appearance there is, to a casual observer, nothing which might bespeak him more or less than man—still a feeling of irrepressible reverence and awe mingled with the sensation of wonder with which I regarded him.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

The giant armed his bow anew, And wondrous weapons hissed and flew, Terrific, deadly, swift of flight, Beaked like the vulture and the kite, Or bearing heads of fearful make, Of lion, tiger, wolf and snake.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

And therefore Obedience, is sometimes called by the names of Charity, and Love, because they imply a Will to Obey; and our Saviour himself maketh our Love to God, and to one another, a Fulfilling of the whole Law: and sometimes by the name of Righteousnesse; for Righteousnesse is but the will to give to every one his owne, that is to say, the will to obey the Laws: and sometimes by the name of Repentance; because to Repent, implyeth a turning away from sinne, which is the same, with the return of the will to Obedience.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Fathers and teachers who want to make the child, not a child but a man of learning, think it never too soon to scold, correct, reprove, threaten, bribe, teach, and reason.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Even in the midst of laughing there is sorrow, (as [933] Solomon holds): even in the midst of all our feasting and jollity, as [934] Austin infers in his Com.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

As it was, it was hard enough to keep her mind on lessons those last weeks, when there was so much besides to think of.
— from Irma in Italy: A Travel Story by Helen Leah Reed

If they would try to find out the cause of the trouble, and seek to obviate it by regulating their mode of living, the general health of the community would be better.
— from Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say by Martha Meir Allen

He says: The true olfactory lobe, or rhinencephalon, seems, therefore, to embrace only the hollow base of the crus, more or less thickened, and more or less distinguishable from the main mass as a hollow process.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1 (of 4) Separate Memoirs by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

"In the first place, monsieur, I must tell you that my wife and I, conforming to the manner of life that our position demands, go out very little.
— from Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes by Maurice Leblanc

It won't make any more of life to take it hard—there's just so much for every man."
— from Fran by J. Breckenridge (John Breckenridge) Ellis

The only difference of importance was that the minor State of Chieng Kong, which bestrode the Mekong and was supposed to be more or less tributary to Kengtung, was, as regards the eastern or Trans-Mekong portion, of which Möng Hsing was the chief town, assigned to Siam.
— from The Pacification of Burma by C. H. T. (Charles Haukes Todd) Crosthwaite

‘The spirit of her owne mault walkt in her brain-pan, so that, what with the sweetnes of gaines which shee had gotten by her Marchant {xvi} Venturers, and what with the fumes of drinke, which set her tongue in going, I found her apt for talke; and, taking hold of this opportunity, after some intreaty to discouer to mee what these vpright men, rufflers and the rest were, with their seuerall qualities and manners of life, Thus shee began.’
— from Awdeley's Fraternitye of Vacabondes, Harman's Caueat, Haben's Sermon, &c. by Harman, Thomas, active 1567

Serving as an admonition to all Gentlewomen, not to mocke Gentlemen Schollers, when they make meanes of love to them, except they intend to seeke their owne shame by disgracing them.
— from The Decameron (Day 6 to Day 10) Containing an hundred pleasant Novels by Giovanni Boccaccio

He saw that the unity of the warring religions of the world would not be accomplished in seminaries of speculative theological thought, but that in the Mill of life the spiritual brotherhood of all mankind would be realized.
— from Helen of the Old House by Harold Bell Wright