The Court after mature deliveration on the evidence abduced &c. are of oppinion that the prisoner is Guilty of the Charge exibited against him, and do therefore Sentence him to recive one hundred Lashes on his bear Back.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

The smugglers furnished the animals, and took their pay in goods of the description before mentioned.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

And in my Lord Treasurer’s excellent letter to the King upon this subject, he tells the King how it was the spending more than the revenue that did give the first occasion of his father’s ruine, and did since to the rebels; who, he says, just like Henry the Eighth, had great and sudden increase of wealth, but yet, by overspending, both died poor; and further tells the King how much of this L1,200,000 depends upon the life of the Prince, and so must be renewed by Parliament again to his successor; which is seldom done without parting with some of the prerogatives of the Crowne; or if denied and he persists to take it of the people, it gives occasion to a civill war, which may, as it did in the late business of tonnage and poundage, prove fatal to the Crowne.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The Pagan interlocutor goes on to make a distinction in favor of the Jews, who had once a temple, altars, victims, &c.]
— 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

Note 67 ( return ) [ Various systems have been formed to explain a difficult passage in Gregory of Tours, l. ii.
— 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 meantime, however, I will explain as briefly as possible my view of the purely intellectual ground of the relation between genius and madness, for this will certainly assist the explanation of the real nature of genius, that is to say, of that mental endowment which alone can produce genuine works of art.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

And the plaintiff, if when defeated before the first judges he persist in going on to the second, shall if he wins receive in addition to the damages a fifth part more, and if defeated he shall pay a like sum; but if he is not satisfied with the previous decision, and will insist on proceeding to a third court, then if he win he shall receive from the defendant the amount of the damages and, as I said before, half as much again, and the plaintiff, if he lose, shall pay half of the damages claimed.
— from Laws by Plato

We sincerely trust that we shall see Odin wrought into a Teutonic epic, that will present in grand outline the contrast between the Roman and the Teuton.
— from The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

For as verily as there is a property in God of ruth and pity, so verily there is a property in God of thirst and longing.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

Portia is going over the whole sad story now again, while the sinner walks beside her.
— from Portia; Or, By Passions Rocked by Duchess

Our young men have caught a number of birds, principally petrels; the P. Pelagica, or Mother Cary's chicken, is the least; the P. Pintado is gayest on the water; but the P. Glacialis, or fulmer, is most beautiful when brought on board: I cannot enough admire the delicate beauty of the snow-white plumage, unwet and unsoiled, amid the salt waves.
— from Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 by Callcott, Maria, Lady

My pardon is granted on that condition.”
— from Human Follies (La Bêtise Humaine.) by Jules Noriac

Yucatan is the most easterly province of the kingdom of New Spain, and is in the form of a peninsula, jutting out into the gulf of Mexico from the main land of the isthmus; it is surrounded on the north-west by the waters of the Mexican gulf; by the bay or gulf of Honduras on the south-east; the province of Vera Cruz bounds it on the south-west, and Vera Paz in Guatimala on the south.
— from Spanish America, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Bonnycastle, Richard Henry, Sir

Part I. GLIMPSES OF THE DARK CONTINENT.
— from The World and Its People, Book VII: Views in Africa by Anna B. Badlam

Azure blue does not predominate in glass of the sixteenth century.
— from The Gate of Remembrance The Story of the Psychological Experiment which Resulted in the Discovery of the Edgar Chapel at Glastonbury by Frederick Bligh Bond

The tales contain phrases in Germania , or thieves' argot, showing that the author closely observed his types of low life.
— from The Story of Seville by Walter M. (Walter Matthew) Gallichan

ANOTHER SABBATH CONTROVERSY WITH THE PHARISEES WHEN THE DISCIPLES PLUCK EARS OF GRAIN IN THE FIELDS Probably in Galilee on the Way Back from Jerusalem a Mark 2:23-28 Matt.
— from A Harmony of the Gospels for Students of the Life of Christ Based on the Broadus Harmony in the Revised Version by A. T. Robertson

One hundred of the most beautiful and seductive daughters of the people, innocent girls of tender age, were torn from their homes by the ruthless priests to fill the holy places of god around each temple.
— from King Solomon's Goat by George Willard Bartlett

Faith makes belief in its God a law: love is freedom,—it condemns not even the atheist, because it is itself atheistic, itself denies, if not theoretically, at least practically, the existence of a particular, individual God, opposed to man.
— from The Essence of Christianity Translated from the second German edition by Ludwig Feuerbach