If they get another army of the extent proposed, it must be composed of new recruits, and men pressed into service.
— from Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Sixth President of the Unied States With the Eulogy Delivered Before the Legislature of New York by William Henry Seward

We hear of no resistance, and Miltiades passed into the series of Persian vassal princes.
— from The History of Antiquity, Vol. 6 (of 6) by Max Duncker

Of no race, a mongrel par excellence, a heterogeneous scrabble, the genius of the admixture was superlatively Abel Ah Yo's.
— from On the Makaloa Mat/Island Tales by Jack London

The three hunters sat down carelessly on the top of the hill, at the same spot they had left a few hours previously with the intention of never returning, and made preparations for supper,—preparations which did not take long, for prudence imperiously ordered them not to light a fire, which would have at once revealed their presence to the unseen eyes which were, at the moment, probably surveying the desert in every direction.
— from The Prairie Flower: A Tale of the Indian Border by Gustave Aimard

By FRANCIS BOWEN, Professor of Natural Religion and Moral Philosophy in Harvard College. 8vo, $2.50.
— from Contemporary Socialism by John Rae

A METAPHORICAL USE OF THE WORD "DISEASE" I, therefore, hasten to hide myself thus early in my discourse behind the man, bigger than I, who many years ago first aroused this question in my mind, a question which, having once fastened itself upon the soul, may allow one no rest and may prevent one from ever again going on gayly through life singing with Browning's Pippa :— God's in His Heaven— All's right with the world.
— from Is civilization a disease? by Stanton Coit

It seems appropriate, in closing this record of my first twelve years of missionary labor, that something should be said concerning the progress made in the Indian work in British Columbia, as well as in the settlement and development of this one-time colony, but now the richest and most wonderful province, from the standpoint of natural resources and marvellous possibilities, in the Dominion of Canada.
— from Among the An-ko-me-nums, or Flathead Tribes of Indians of the Pacific Coast by Thomas Crosby

The guilt of Nero remains a moot point; but he seems to have acted with some amount of liberality to the sufferers, though his acts [Pg 20] of humanity did not free his name from the foul suspicion.
— from Firemen and Their Exploits With some account of the rise and development of fire-brigades, of various appliances for saving life at fires and extinguishing the flames. by F. M. (Frederic Morell) Holmes

In life we never doubt the fact, but for science our conviction of the uniformity of nature remains a merely probable (though a very highly probable) conviction.
— from History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg

By Francis Bowen, Professor of Natural Religion and Moral Philosophy, at Harvard University. 'American Academy of Arts and Sciences,' vol. viii.)
— from Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Charles Darwin