I had been very early in life impressed with the conviction that the bountiful hand of the Creator implants in the mind of man the seeds of virtue, which seldom totally perish during his lifetime, although they may remain long unproductive: an experience of the world more than commonly extensive, perhaps, has every xv day tended to confirm the justness of that conviction.
— from Two Voyages to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land by Thomas Reid

AND FRANCIS K. BALL I NSTRUCTOR IN THE P HILLIPS E XETER A CADEMY GINN AND COMPANY BOSTON · NEW YORK · CHICAGO · LONDON ATLANTA · DALLAS · COLUMBUS · SAN FRANCISCO ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL COPYRIGHT, 1903, BY ALBERT F. BLAISDELL AND FRANCIS K. BALL
— from Hero Stories from American History For Elementary Schools by Francis Kingsley Ball

The most important point of the Literarische Fehden is that Aristotle published his Ethics xix while Plato was still alive and engaged in the composition of his Laws , and that certain passages in the latter work, of which one relates to free-will and the other to the unity of virtue (861, A ff.
— from The Greek Philosophers, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Alfred William Benn

So, in Hades he does not begin by asking how Penelope is, but how she is behaving, and whether she is protecting his estate (xi. 177, &c.).
— from The Authoress of the Odyssey Where and when she wrote, who she was, the use she made of the Iliad, and how the poem grew under her hands by Samuel Butler