One passage of nearly three pages, containing a censure of our defensive system, is borrowed from a private letter, which he began to dictate with an intention of comprising in it the short result of his opinions, but which he afterwards abandoned, when, a little time before his death, his health appeared in some degree to amend, and he hoped that Providence might have spared him at least to complete the larger public letter, which he then proposed to resume.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

but he must often fall into those mistakes: he had need of too many parts, considerations, and circumstances, rightly to level his design: he must know the sick person’s complexion, his temperament, his humours, inclinations, actions, nay, his very thoughts and imaginations; he must be assured of the external circumstances, of the nature of the place, the quality of the air and season, the situation of the planets, and their influences: he must know in the disease, the causes, prognostics, affections, and critical days; in the drugs, the weight, the power of working, the country, figure, age, and dispensation, and he must know how rightly to proportion and mix them together, to beget a just and perfect symmetry; wherein if there be the least error, if amongst so many springs there be but any one out of order, ‘tis enough to destroy us.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Also the first and second Propositions contain the Pair of codivisional Classes “cats” and “cats”; the first and third contain the Pair “creatures understanding French” and “creatures understanding French”; and the second and third contain the Pair “chickens” and “chickens”.
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

There used to be, and belike is yet, a custom, in all maritime places which have a port, that all merchants who come thither with merchandise, having unloaded it, should carry it all into a warehouse, which is in many places called a customhouse, kept by the commonality or by the lord of the place.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

192 The belief of the Primitive Christians, and consequently that the Templars, with regard to the miracles of Christ is that He "did or may have done extraordinary or miraculous things," and that since "God can do things incomprehensible to human intelligence," the Primitive Church venerates "all the acts of Christ as they are described in the Gospel, whether it considers them as acts of human science or whether as acts of divine power."
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Si notre abonné suit le feuilleton, il finira bien par chercher autre chose.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

In other villages, where sailing is always being done, a canoe is simply covered with palm leaves (see Plates I , LIII ), as protection from the sun, and the natives often sit on its platform, chatting, and chewing betel-nut, and gazing at the sea.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

He is a perfect treasure, I'd give him twenty thousand to take care of for me without a receipt; but he has no eye for business, he is a perfect child, a crow could deceive him.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

At first its voice was very hoarse and broken, being much troubled by a cobweb which some studious spider had woven across it, and having probably contracted a cold from long exposure to the chills and damps of the abbey.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

Pistillate: calyx and corolla same as staminate; nectary, 5 glandules on the base of the ovary.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

When the Dutch took possession, Captain Anthony Colve was appointed Governor.
— from Dutch and English on the Hudson: A Chronicle of Colonial New York by Maud Wilder Goodwin

And as Sir Samuel Baker, the explorer, asserts of African game and predatory creatures: “Animals can endure traps, pitfalls, fire, and every savage method of hunting, but firearms
— from The Squirrel Hunters of Ohio; or, Glimpses of Pioneer Life by N. E. (Nelson Edward) Jones

In the rooms below, there was no cheerful litter of toys and games and pop corn and candy and nuts with bits of string and crumpled paper from hastily opened parcels and shining scraps of tinsel from the tree.
— from Their Yesterdays by Harold Bell Wright

When they assert heresy and unbelief are crimes, and where the Catholic religion is the essential law of the land, are punished as crimes, they authorize heretics and unbelievers to consider Catholicism a crime, and where heresy and unbelief are the essential law of the land, to punish Catholics as criminals.
— from Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues by John Alberger

A man who has any innocent resource, has quite as much right to draw upon it in need, as he has upon p. 327 a banker in whose hands he has placed a sum; Lavengro turns to advantage, under particular circumstances, a certain resource which he has, but people who are not so forlorn as Lavengro, and have not served the same apprenticeship which he had, are not advised to follow his example.
— from The Romany Rye A sequel to "Lavengro" by George Borrow

Fill the space between the two with sawdust packed closely and cover with a heavy lid made to fit neatly inside the larger box.
— from Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians by William K. (William King) David

Gregory was played by Theophilus Cibber, and the preface contains a complimentary reference to his acting, and the expected retirement of his father from the stage.
— from Fielding by Austin Dobson

She had so schooled her sensibilities and feelings, as to be able to maintain perfect cheerfulness and composure in her mother's presence, on occasions which forced her brother to turn aside with an eye of agony—overcome by some touching speech or wayward action of the unconscious sufferer, who constantly imagined herself, poor soul!
— from Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. by Samuel Warren

S. WITH 8 HALF-TONE PLATES CASSELL AND COMPANY L TD.
— from A Cruising Voyage Around the World by Woodes Rogers