We were particularly desirous of reclaiming into the way of reason and nature, the deluded Christians who had renounced the religion and ceremonies instituted by their fathers; and presumptuously despising the practice of antiquity, had invented extravagant laws and opinions, according to the dictates of their fancy, and had collected a various society from the different provinces of our empire.
— 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

It was a strong injunction to him to leave Saguntum alone, as being under the protection of Rome; and not to cross the Iber, in accordance with the agreement come to in the time of Hasdrubal.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

Aboma′sum, or Aboma′sus, the fourth stomach of ruminating animals, next the omasum or third stomach.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

But I have described this voyage down the Rhône, before I made it—— 58 ——So now I am at Avignon, and as there is nothing to see but the old house, in which the duke of Ormond resided, and nothing to stop me but a short remark upon the place, in three minutes you will see me crossing the bridge upon a mule, with François upon a horse with my portmanteau behind him, and the owner of both, striding the way before us, with a long gun upon his shoulder, and a sword under his arm, lest peradventure we should run away with his cattle.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

The Alemanni, and Bavarians, who had occupied the Roman provinces of Rhætia and Noricum, to the south of the Danube, confessed themselves the humble vassals of the Franks; and the feeble barrier of the Alps was incapable of resisting their ambition.
— 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

“Thrice fairer than myself,” thus she began, “The field’s chief flower, sweet above compare, 8 Stain to all nymphs, more lovely than a man, More white and red than doves or roses are: Nature that made thee, with herself at strife, Saith that the world hath ending with thy life.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

On the contrary, were the generous friend or disinterested patriot to stand alone in the practice of beneficence, this would rather enhance his value in our eyes, and join the praise of rarity and novelty to his other more exalted merits.
— from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume

He built for those from the house of Receipt, along nigh to the Thames, within the same palace, there to inhabit; and since that there was also built for them, betwixt the clock-house and the wool staple, called the Wey house.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

The whole idea of the hierarchy of the passions : as if the only right and normal thing were to be led by reason —whereas the passions are abnormal, dangerous, half-animal, and moreover, in so far as their end is concerned, nothing more than desires for pleasure....
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The vast multitudes of fish, with which the low grounds round Bombay are covered, about a week or [Pg 116] ten days after the first burst of the monsoon, appear to be derived from the adjoining pools or rivulets, and not to descend from the sky.
— from The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Philip Henry Gosse

The morals of one race are not those of another even in the same century.
— from The Conquest of Fear by Basil King

"Our roses are not thriving very well this year," said he.
— from Roses: Four One-Act Plays Streaks of Light—The Last Visit—Margot—The Far-away Princess by Hermann Sudermann

But almost equally with this cause of joy there operated on American minds the notion that the United States had at last given to Great Britain a dose of her own medicine in a previous era--had exercised upon a British ship that "right of search" which had been so keenly resented by America as to have become almost a permanent cause of a sense of injury once received and never to be forgotten.
— from Great Britain and the American Civil War by Ephraim Douglass Adams

I knew that it is the writers of romances, and not the historians or the moralists, who are the real critics and the earnest investigators of life and living.
— from The Silent Isle by Arthur Christopher Benson

Congress, on reconsideration, admitted Nebraska, the objections of the President to the contrary notwithstanding.
— from History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by William Horatio Barnes

Great bowlders, half hidden by the bracken, lie about in wildest confusion; the remains of what seem to be Druidic circles can be traced here and there, and it is hard to persuade one's self that the ragged towers and picturesque piles of rock are not the work of Cyclopean architects.
— from Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

With such a vision, repeated many times in his brain, varied only by changes of place, (for now the scene was transferred to the deserts of Barbary, now the fair vales of Rhodes, and now the verdant borders of Tezcuco,) he struggled through many hours of torture; and, at last, awoke, as a peal of thunder, bursting on the scene, drove, terrified away, as well his guides as the maid of his memory.
— from Calavar; or, The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico by Robert Montgomery Bird