We have already seen (Fig. 109) that rays coming from a point in the principal focal plane emerge as a [Pg 256] parallel pencil.
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

inordinata vita præcedens, retentio potestatis in regno, neglecta vindicta, vir alter susceptus, et excusatio subsequens, necis viri tui te probant fuisse participem et consortem.
— 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 the progress from primitive equity to final injustice, the steps are silent, the shades are almost imperceptible, and the absolute monopoly is guarded by positive laws and artificial reason.
— 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

Pattern for piqué embroidery.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

The English Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in 1837, sent a circular to the different embassies requesting their excellencies and chargés d’affaires to discontinue the customary Christmas-boxes to the ‘messengers of the Foreign Department, domestic servants of Viscount Palmerston, foreign postmen, etc.’
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

The first was a short paragraph in the local newspaper, which, beyond making by a methodizing pen formidable presumptive evidence of Troy's death by drowning, contained the important testimony of a young Mr. Barker, M.D., of Budmouth, who spoke to being an eyewitness of the accident, in a letter to the editor.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

My father will willingly satiate thy utmost wishes; and if thou wilt act wisely, thou mayst purchase with our spoils thy restoration to civil society—mayst obtain pardon for past errors, and be placed beyond the necessity of committing more.”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

Deforme etiam est de se ipsum praedicare falsa praesertim et cum irrisione audientium imitari militem gloriosum.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

My own belief is that these doctors keep Bushmen who act the part and impose upon the superstitions of the Basuto, for there certainly is some truth at the bottom of it all, as I can prove from personal experience.
— from Basutoland: Its Legends and Customs by Minnie Martin

Such was the origin of the Order of the Gilbertins, the approbation of which he procured from pope Eugenius III.
— from The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. January, February, March by Alban Butler

For if from this incident it be attempted to establish a precedent for permanent elaborate ritual of worship, it must be said this incident goes to prove its impossibility.
— from The Quiver, 2/1900 by Various

Education.—In the English colonies New England took the lead in provision for popular education.
— from The Colonization of North America, 1492-1783 by Herbert Eugene Bolton

Neither should we sit down to a substantial dinner or supper immediately on returning from a fatiguing walk, at a time when the blood is heated, and the body in a state of perspiration from previous exertion, as the worst consequences may arise, especially where cooling dishes, salad, or a glass of cold drink is begun with.
— from Mrs. Hale's Receipts for the Million Containing Four Thousand Five Hundred and Forty-five Receipts, Facts, Directions, etc. in the Useful, Ornamental, and Domestic Arts by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale

[Pg 213] J. HENRY SHORTHOUSE Probably few people expected a work of more than mediocre interest when they heard that Mrs. Shorthouse was preparing her husband's Letters and Literary Remains for the the press.
— from Shelburne Essays, Third Series by Paul Elmer More

So that, however desirous Dr. West may be to be thought to differ, in this point, from President Edwards, it appears that he most exactly agrees with him,” p. 65.
— from An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will by Albert Taylor Bledsoe