Rizal was made the honorary president of the association, his portrait hung in all the meeting-halls, and the magic of his name used to attract the easily deluded masses, who were in a state of agitated ignorance and growing unrest, ripe for any movement that looked anti-governmental, and especially anti-Spanish.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

But though the circulating capital of every individual makes a part of that of the society to which he belongs, it is not upon that account totally excluded from making a part likewise of their neat revenue.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

It is not unlikely that all the eastern countries mentioned in the oldest Darius inscriptions as “subdued,” or “rebellious,” had already belonged to Cyrus, and that he ruled over Khorazmia and Soghdiana.
— from The Heart of Asia A history of Russian Turkestan and the Central Asian Khanates from the earliest times by Ross, E. Denison (Edward Denison), Sir

[444] It was no uncommon thing at this early period to have gatehouses of stone to walls of earth and wood.
— from The Early Norman Castles of the British Isles. by Ella S. Armitage

There was no great difficulty in crossing the divide between Zebak (a small but not unimportant town) and the elbow of the Oxus River at Ishkashm.
— from The Gates of India: Being an Historical Narrative by Holdich, Thomas Hungerford, Sir

Of no use to appeal the exception, The truth remains fix’ed alway, So, good-bye, it must be,—and, God bless you,— There is nothing more to say .
— from Poems of Life by Katharine Forrest Hamill

The prisoner could not understand their air towards each other.
— from The Woman from Outside [On Swan River] by Hulbert Footner

God is nearest unto thee and to every man.
— from Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries by Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew) Jones

In general, the Maltese speak a language not unlike the Arabic, though English and Italian are used in trade.
— from Miss Caprice by St. George Rathborne

They are convinced that their end is good; and it must be admitted that they employ means which are not unlikely to attain the end.
— from Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

Hollister's morality was the morality of his early environment; his class was that magnificently inert middle class which sets its face rigorously against change, which proceeds naively upon the assumption that everything has always been as it is and will continue to be so; that the man and woman who deviates from the accepted conventions [Pg 178] in living, loving, marrying, breeding—even in dying—does so because of innate depravity, and that such people must be damned by bell, book and candle in this world, as they shall assuredly be damned in the next.
— from The Hidden Places by Bertrand W. Sinclair