The power of the superior orders disintegrates, either because it is essentially incoherent and does not know how to attain the above-emphasized proportion between subordination and individual freedom; or because the persons comprising the administration are too indolent or too ignorant of governmental technique to preserve supreme power.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

According to the theory, these elements must themselves be made up of a part common to all, and of parts differing in each, which latter parts form a new series, and so on ad infinitum , which is absurd."
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

She herself went several times to her room, regardless of the men she met in the corridor, got out and brought in sheets, pillow cases, towels, and shirts.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

This was the speech which Tiberius made, which did not persuade Caius to act accordingly, although he promised so to do; but when he was settled in the government, he took off this Tiberius, as was predicted by the other Tiberius; as he was also himself, in no long time afterward, slain by a secret plot laid against him.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Why is this period called the Augustan Age?
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

The intelligence of the mysterious fate of the late emperor was soon carried from the frontiers of Persia to Rome; and the senate, as well as the provinces, congratulated the accession of the sons of Carus.
— 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

In like manner, in the ordinary trialls of Right, Twelve men of the common People, are the Judges, and give Sentence, not onely of the Fact, but of the Right; and pronounce simply for the Complaynant, or for the Defendant; that is to say, are Judges not onely of the Fact, but also of the Right: and in a question of crime, not onely determine whether done, or not done; but also whether it be Murder, Homicide, Felony, Assault, and the like, which are determinations of Law: but because they are not supposed to know the Law of themselves, there is one that hath Authority to enforme them of it, in the particular case they are to Judge of.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Las fundiciones de Pradera son muy importantes y pueden producir cincuenta toneladas al día, incluyendo el hierro en lingotes y la manufactura de hierro forjado o batido, rieles y hierro colado.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

I cannot bear it.—You shall see it, indeed, ladies, said my master; and pray, Pamela, not always as you please, neither.—Then, pray sir, said I, not in my hearing, I hope.—Sure, Pamela, returned he, you would not write what is not fit to be heard!—But, sir, said I, there are particular cases, times, and occasions, that may make a thing passable at one time, that would not be tolerable at another.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

Finally the astonished prince came to an inner chamber, where was the fairest sight his eyes had ever beheld.
— from The Fairy Book The Best Popular Stories Selected and Rendered Anew by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

It is, however, necessary to know the place closely to appreciate it fully—it grows upon one, as the saying is; we should have seen the homely court of the Master Carpenter as well as the stately Fountain Court, the sculptures in the gardens as well as the encyclopædic clock, the kitchens as well as the picture galleries, to have lingered about the Wilderness in the spring as well as to have seen the Broad Walk in the blaze of summer, to have visited in some of the residences as well as to have passed through the public galleries, to have been about it at all seasons and not merely [Pg 33] to have scampered through it as the central incident in a half-day’s excursion.
— from Hampton Court by Walter Jerrold

But although mounted, the greater distance they had to traverse brought them to the rear of the building only as the Harrison party came to a sudden halt before the closed and barricaded doors of the usually defenceless barn.
— from Cressy by Bret Harte

It is a principle common to all sciences of observation not to base a scientific conclusion on a single observation; the fact must have been corroborated by several independent observations before it is affirmed categorically.
— from Introduction to the Study of History by Charles Seignobos

To look for these in Kippis, Chalmers, Gorton, or Rose would be a waste of time; and although agreeing to some extent with the Utilitarians , that we have all that was worth preserving of the Antediluvians , there is, I think, here and there a name worth resuscitating, possessing claims to a niche in our "Antiquary's Newspaper;" and for that distinction, I would now put in a plea on behalf of my present subject, William Blake.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 195, July 23, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

In presence of __________ __________ __________ State of __________ } __________ County. } On this ____ day of ________, 19__, before me, a justice of the peace, in and for said county, personally came the above named ________, who are known to me to be the identical persons whose names are affixed to the above deed as grantors, and severally acknowledged the instrument to be their voluntary act and deed.
— from Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman by Albert Sidney Bolles

If her mother refused, under present conditions, to accept Arthur’s help, somebody else must be found.
— from Whitewash by Horace Annesley Vachell

In the first shop the practice consists of planing, chiseling, turning, and the preparation of patterns for casting.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 by Various

Jane's father came with three automobiles that morning at dawn, bringing with him all that goes to make up a hospital, from a pharmacy clerk to absorbent cotton, and having left the new supplies in the office he stamped upstairs to Jane's room and flung open the door.
— from Love Stories by Mary Roberts Rinehart

The Masque and the prince continued to advance, preserving a pretty equal distance.
— from Memorials and Other Papers — Volume 2 by Thomas De Quincey