A Guide to the Trees Alice Lounsbery Familiar Trees and Their Leaves Mathews Field and Forest Handy Book Dan C. Beard First Book of Forestry Roth Forest Trees and Forest Scenery Schwartz Grafton Press Handbook of Trees of New England Dame and Brooks Ginn & Co.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

He saw that the great body of the House of Commons was divided into three parties, his own, that of North, and that of Shelburne; that none of those three parties was large enough to stand alone; that, therefore, unless two of them united, there must be a miserably feeble administration, or more probably, a rapid succession of miserably feeble administrations, and this at a time when a strong government was essential to the prosperity and respectability of the nation.
— from Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

A few, however, of [Pg 255] the Secondary, and even Palæozoic shells, still retain the rich prismatic hues of the original nacre.
— from The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Hugh Miller

On the other hand, if the Indians have any guarantee that they can secure a permanent home on their own native soil, and that our white neighbors can be kept from encroaching on our rights, after having a reasonable share of ground allotted to us as our own, and giving us the required advantages of learning, I warrant that the savage (as he is called to-day) will be a thrifty and law-abiding member of the community fifteen or twenty years hence.
— from A Century of Dishonor A Sketch of the United States Government's Dealings with Some of the Indian Tribes by Helen Hunt Jackson

After a brief review of the various states as they existed toward the middle of the last century, he adds: "The efforts of the rulers to obtain unlimited power had overthrown the old national freedom in all the states of the Continent; the assemblies of the states had disappeared, or were reduced to mere forms; nowhere had they been modelled into a true national representation."
— from The Irish Race in the Past and the Present by Augustus J. Thébaud

In the first place, Wirt’s version certainly gives the substance of the speech as actually made by Patrick Henry on the occasion named; and, for the form of it, Wirt seems to have gathered testimony from all available living witnesses, and then, from such sentences or snatches of sentences as these witnesses could remember, as well as from his own conception of the orator’s method of expression, to have constructed the version which he has handed down to us.
— from Patrick Henry by Moses Coit Tyler

They owned large plantations, hundreds of thousands of negroes, were educated for public life, represented our State admirably, and did great service to the country.
— from My Memories of Eighty Years by Chauncey M. (Chauncey Mitchell) Depew

The fact that some of her fellow passengers had seen the act and considered it worthy of commemoration, of course, pleased Mr. and Mrs. Sherwood; but that Nan had been in peril herself on the occasion, naturally worried her mother.
— from Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays; Or, Rescuing the Runaways by Annie Roe Carr

He saw that the great body of the House of Commons was divided into three parties, his own, that of North, and that of Shelburne; that none of those three parties was large enough to stand alone; that, therefore, unless two of them united, there must be a miserably feeble administration, or, more probably, a rapid succession of miserably feeble administrations, and this at a time when a strong government was essential to the prosperity and respectability of the nation.
— from Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 6 With a Memoir and Index by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

Iowa, not a part, however, of the old Northwest Territory, was traversed by lines terminating in Illinois, and [136] therefore deserves consideration here.
— from The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom: A comprehensive history by Wilbur Henry Siebert