But Common Sense (in the present age at least) regards such preference as within the limits of right conduct; because there is no fear that population will not be sufficiently kept up, as in fact the tendency to propagate is thought to exist rather in excess than otherwise.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

There is no point in trying to establish rapport with the enemy unless you talk his language with effortless perfection on the one end of the scale—or else admit that you really are a foreigner, on the other end of the scale.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

Thus there arose five or six classes of barons, as they may best be called, to render their position intelligible to the English reader.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

The bright reporter on the Mercury made further discoveries, which were printed in the third edition rushed from the presses of his paper.
— from Adrift in the Unknown; or, Queer Adventures in a Queer Realm by William Wallace Cook

The custom then is copied from the Egyptians, and they have preserved it, tho’ the Egyptian reason does no longer hold.
— from Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, Volume 3 (of 5) In the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773 by James Bruce

A century later the Rath of Nuremberg removed this picture from the sepulchral chapel of its founder, and presented it to the Emperor Rudolph II.
— from Dürer Artist-Biographies by M. F. (Moses Foster) Sweetser

They frightened no game from their path, indicating that the entire region had been hunted over thoroughly by the great force that had lain at Crown Point, and, after a while, they passed a point parallel to the fort, though several miles to the westward.
— from The Rulers of the Lakes: A Story of George and Champlain by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

It has hence been plausibly inferred that this enormity really prevailed in early times, but was changed, we can scarcely say mitigated, into the present system of torture.
— from Anecdotes of the American Indians Illustrating their Eccentricities of Character by Alexander Vietts Blake

The classes who most admire him are the scholarly and adventurous young Radicals, who have a dash of Positivism in them; the extreme Radicals, who are prepared to go any and all lengths for the mere sake of change; and the working-men.
— from Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy

But the connecting links are so slender, nay, so frequently omitted, in the original, that a certain degree of paraphrase in many of the stanzas is absolutely necessary to supply them, and render the general sense and spirit of the poem intelligible to the English reader.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 331, May, 1843 by Various