The rite of circumcision is practised only by the Mahometans of the Euxine; and the curled hair and swarthy complexion of Africa no longer disfigure the most perfect of the human race.
— 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

As the price of his disgraceful concessions, the emperor might perhaps have stipulated, that the camp of the hungry Romans should be plentifully supplied; and that they should be permitted to pass the Tigris on the bridge which was constructed by the hands of the Persians.
— 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

The active, insatiate principle of self-love can alone supply the arts of life and the wages of industry; and as soon as civil government and exclusive property have been introduced, they become necessary to the existence of the human race.
— 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

for these are feelings and marks of devotion which are offered to the Gods by men with uprightness and holiness, on the ground that men are the objects of the attention of the Gods, and that many benefits are conferred by the immortal Gods on the human race.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

By means of them he redeemed all his pledges, paid most of his bills, and bought a new set of tires for his wheel.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

She could even see the bathing-shed, but while she was looking for Charles’s new spring-board, the forehead of the hill rose and hid the whole scene.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

The whole story is told in the single title of Counts of the Holy Roman Empire, which merely means officers in the European army against the contemporary Yellow Peril.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

“When I found that the home path of the Hurons run north,” he said, “it did not need the judgment of many long years to tell that they would follow the valleys, and keep atween the waters of the Hudson and the Horican, until they might strike the springs of the Canada streams, which would lead them into the heart of the country of the Frenchers.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

The Barn, for many years, was frequented by all the noted players of chess and draughts; and it was there that they often decided games of the first importance, played between persons of the highest rank.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Seeing that in the case of toe sand-crack the converse is argued—that contraction of the heels readily takes place and forces the sand-crack wider open—it is doubtful whether this method is of any utility in treating contracted heels.
— from Diseases of the Horse's Foot by H. Caulton (Harry Caulton) Reeks

It is a doctrine, moreover, hard to flesh and blood, and which no human power, even if it had the will, could impose on the human race.
— from The Faith of Our Fathers by James Gibbons

She is the sole bulwark of the human race against universal dominion; no thanks to her for it.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 3 (of 16) by United States. Congress

Used to be very quick-tempered, but I fancy all these years of teaching have rather toned down his temper.
— from Vacation with the Tucker Twins by Nell Speed

After the terrible discovery of the murder (committed on the high road), and the escape of the miscreant who had been guilty of the crime, the parting of Lord Harry and Miss Henley had been the next event.
— from Blind Love by Wilkie Collins

Bot Schir Philip the Mowbray, That with the formast rydand was, [†] That enterit war in-to the plas, 76 Quhen that he saw how he wes stad, Throu the gret worschip that he had, With spurys he strak the steid of pris, And, magre all his enymys, 80 Throu the thikkest of thame he raid,
— from The Bruce by John Barbour

The two cooks from Paris profess, the one to have learned his art under the Prince de Soubise, the other to have received his receipts for pastry from the Duke de Richelieu?"
— from Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

American and European hotels were impossible for me on account of their high rates and the Chinese hotels were out of the question because of their filth.
— from From Job to Job around the World by Alfred C. B. (Alfred Charles Benson) Fletcher

Such districts do exist, and exist in vastness: the whole earth is not prepared for the habitation of man; only certain small portions are prepared for him,—the houses, as it were, of the human race, from which they are to look abroad upon the rest of the world, not to wonder or complain that it is not all house, but to be grateful for the kindness of the admirable building, in the house itself, as compared with the rest.
— from Modern Painters, Volume 4 (of 5) by John Ruskin