The natural, or native, powers furnish the initiating and limiting forces in all education; they do not furnish its ends or aims.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

It is delightful, and one could live on the name of Newton Priors for a twelvemonth.
— from The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne by Jane Austen

[412] For he speaks of God the Father and God the Son, whom he calls (writing in Greek) the intellect or mind of the Father; [413] but of the Holy Spirit he says either nothing, or nothing plainly, for I do not understand what other he speaks of as holding the middle place between these two.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

95 Very few remained who could derive their pure and genuine origin from the infancy of the city, or even from that of the republic, when Caesar and Augustus, Claudius and Vespasian, created from the body of the senate a competent number of new Patrician families, in the hope of perpetuating an order, which was still considered as honorable and sacred.
— 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

Very few remained who could derive their pure and genuine origin from the infancy of the city, or even from that of the republic, when Cæsar and Augustus, Claudius and Vespasian, created from the body of the senate a competent number of new Patrician families, in the hope of perpetuating an order, which was still considered as honorable and sacred.
— 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

"I'd like to try it," said John, "for no one needs protection from the rain more than I do.
— from John Dough and the Cherub by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Yet it will be remembered, that, at this moment, the Duke had not only no powers from the King, but that Philip had most expressly refused to send a commission, and that he fully expected the negotiation to be superseded by the invasion, before the production of the powers should become indispensable.
— from History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609) by John Lothrop Motley

During the next hour or so that I was in the hospital I saw a number of news people from both Dallas and Fort Worth who I at least said hello to, who I know.
— from Warren Commission (15 of 26): Hearings Vol. XV (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

Therefore, no other, no possible future enemy, should be thought of at this time, but only the universal foe and his government, so incompatible with general tranquillity.
— from Louisa of Prussia and Her Times: A Historical Novel by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

All day Tharon Last had sung about her work scouring the boards of the kitchen floor until they were soft and white as flax, helping old Anita with the dinner for the men, seeing about the number of new palings for the garden.
— from Tharon of Lost Valley by Vingie E. (Vingie Eve) Roe

In such cases England's share is her glory, a glory of which no other nation partakes, for she alone is the grand old mother of nations, God bless her!
— from Round the World by Andrew Carnegie

As reported in chapter II, when the special file was reviewed on November 8, it contained the names of no persons from the entire 433 Dallas-Fort Worth area, notwithstanding the fact that Ambassador Stevenson had been abused by pickets in Dallas less than a month before.
— from Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by United States. Warren Commission

Though Quackinboss understood thoroughly well that it devolved upon him to do the honors of his country to the “Britisher,” he felt that, in honest fairness, the stranger ought to be free to form his impressions, without the bias that would ensue from personal attentions, while he also believed that American institutions and habits stood in need of no peculiar favor towards them to assert their own superiority.
— from One Of Them by Charles James Lever