The 400,000 French inhabitants of Lower Canada constitute, at the present time, the remnant of an old nation lost in the midst of a new people.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

The real use and excuse for magic is this, that by enticing us, in the service of natural lusts, into a region above natural instrumentalities, it accustoms us to that rarer atmosphere, so that we may learn to breathe it for its own sake.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

And as we walked we came to a broad and deep valley of infinite length; it lay on our left, and one side of it was exceeding terrible with raging flames, the other no less intolerable for violent hail and cold snows drifting and sweeping through all the place.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

Albinos are not of necessity lacking in mental vigour or capacity.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

The conclusion from these two premises is that [Pg 7] I must be allowed complete freedom of speech, as well as the right of questioning everything; and furthermore, that if I succeed in really contributing something, however small, to this subject, then that contribution will be of no little importance.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

Name your objections no longer: I am resolved.”
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

Of the Egyptians themselves however and the Ethiopians, I am not able to say which learnt from the other, for undoubtedly it is a most ancient custom; but that the other nations learnt it by intercourse with the Egyptians, this among others is to me a strong proof, namely that those of the Phenicians who have intercourse with Hellas cease to follow the example of the Egyptians in this matter, and do not circumcise their children.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

The Revolution of July, 1830, made Marsay a man of no little importance.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Of no less importance is the type of rock-formation.
— from Territory in Bird Life by Henry Eliot Howard

It is now the political home of Gladstone, who is perhaps the greatest living statesman, and the home of Drummond, author of “Natural law in the Spiritual World.”
— from A Baptist Abroad: Travels and Adventures of Europe and all Bible Lands by Walter Andrew Whittle

But however that may be with respect to volunteers, in regard to recruiting for the regular service, in filling up the regiments by pay and bounties according to existing laws, or new laws, if new ones are necessary, there is no reason on earth why we should now create five hundred new officers, for the purpose of getting ten thousand more men.
— from The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Edwin Percy Whipple

—The nature of the pseudo-leaves of Sciadopitys , and probably of other Conifers, is illustrated by teratology, as also is the true constitution of the scale of the cone ( see pp. 192 , 24 5, 352 ), though it must be admitted that little or no light is thrown on that much-contested point—the true nature of the ovule of Gymnosperms.
— from Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. (Maxwell Tylden) Masters

Calvert, George and Cecil , father and son, Lords Baltimore; founders, under charter from James I., of Maryland, U.S. Calvin, John , or Cauvin , the great Reformer, born at Noyon, in Picardy; devoted for a time to the law, was sent to study at the university of Orleans, after having mastered Latin as a boy at Paris; became acquainted with the Scriptures, and acquired a permanently theological bent; professed the Protestant faith; proceeded to Paris; became the centre of a dangerous religious excitement; had to flee for his life from France; retired to Basel, where he studied Hebrew and wrote his great epoch-making book, the "Institutes of the Christian Religion"; making after this for Strassburg, he chanced to pass through Geneva, was arrested as by the hand of God to stay and help on God's work in the place, but proceeded with such rigour that he was expelled, though recalled after three years; on his return he proposed and established his system of Church government, which allowed of no license in faith any more than conduct, as witness the burning of Servetus for denying the doctrine of the Trinity; for twenty years he held sway in Geneva, and for so long he was regarded as the head of the Reformed Churches in Scotland, Switzerland, Holland, and France.
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

Arrived at our new lodging, I remember I thought them extremely fine, though ordinary enough, even at that price; but, had it been a dungeon that Charles had brought me to, his presence would have made a little Versailles.
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

But the Population of the Country is not only necessarily lessened, in Consequence of the Numbers that leave it; but even those who remain increase less, than an equal Number formerly did.
— from Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot

We know of no language in which the suggestion of number does not appear, and we must admit that the words which give expression to the number sense would be among the early words to be formed in any language.
— from The Number Concept: Its Origin and Development by Levi L. (Levi Leonard) Conant