153 152 This day was played a revived comedy of Mr Congreve’s, called “The Double Dealer,” which was never very takeing.
— from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 18 Dialogue concerning Women; Characters; Life of Lucian; Letters; Appendix; Index by John Dryden

I do not warn people against reading Catholic or Methodist papers or books.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 07 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Discussions by Robert Green Ingersoll

One of their prizes was a sugar caraval from Brazil; another was a West Indian worth two hundred thousand crowns, which had on board fourteen coffers of wedges of silver, eight thousand royals of eight, and six coffers of the King of Spain's treasure, besides the pillage and rich coffers of many rich passengers.
— from Captain John Smith by Charles Dudley Warner

In the Devonian age we meet with no land plants of the two 97 lower classes of the Cryptogams, and with scarcely any that can be referred to the two higher classes of Phænogams, so that the vegetation of this period presents a remarkable character of mediocrity, being composed almost entirely of the highest class of the flowerless plants and the lowest class of those that flower.
— from The Chain of Life in Geological Time A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and Plants by Dawson, John William, Sir

I took up the paper and read carelessly on, my thoughts engaged with my immediate danger, till I struck on the next paragraph:— ‘In connection with the recent horrid murder in the Castle, we are desired to make public the following intelligence.
— from St. Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England by Robert Louis Stevenson

Lelio would often stand apart from his companions, sad and silent, looking 31 either at a flower, a falcon circling through the air, or a little cloud that undulated through the blue ether as if the loving zephyrs were contending for it; but he was oftenest to be seen in the evening, upon the brow of a hill, with both hands clasped upon his knees, gazing intently at the setting sun, and the gold, purple, and rich colors of mother-of-pearl, and the rainbow hues with which the glorious Father of Life surrounds his temporary tomb.
— from Isabella Orsini: A Historical Novel of the Fifteenth Century by Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi

A brief examination of the social and political and religious condition of man, as described by the poets of the Vedas, will prove that his infancy had long been left behind him when the first Vedic hymns were chanted.
— from Myth, Ritual and Religion, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Andrew Lang