You, gentlemen, who by nationality, by heredity, or by the possession of natural gifts, are fitted to hold your respective places in the moving world, I take to witness that I am as sane as at least the majority of men who are in full possession of their liberties.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

Opposites introduced in the place of natural gradations and ranks.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

In early times they inhabited a part of Northern Greece and of the Peloponnesus.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

My silk stockings and two pairs of new gloves are my comfort.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

[Pg 459] All phenomena of government are phenomena of groups pressing one another, forming one another, and pushing out new groups and group representatives (the organs or agencies of government) to mediate the adjustments.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

3. Literally, “But the most important point of all is that the actual fact that there are some parts of literature which are in the power of natural genius alone, must be learnt from no other source than from art.”
— from On the Sublime by active 1st century Longinus

Set Madamoiselle at home; and we home, and to my office, whither comes Mr. Bland, and pays me the debt he acknowledged he owed me for my service in his business of the Tangier Merchant, twenty pieces of new gold, a pleasant sight.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

“The Eastern Papuasians, that is, the generally smaller, lighter coloured, frizzly-haired races of the eastern peninsula of New Guinea and its archipelagoes now require a name, and since the true Melanesian element is dominant in them, they may be called Papuo-Melanesians.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

As a matter of fact, 180 degrees west of the meridian last set by the pope extended to the western part of New Guinea, and not quite to the Moluccas; but in the absence of exact geographical knowledge both parties claimed the Spice Islands.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

The Spirit of truth will work in men’s minds the conviction that all and every sin is mistake and productive of nothing good, and can in no instance accomplish what righteousness would have accomplished.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. II by Marcus Dods

An artificial system took the place of natural growth, and the punning etymologies which accompanied it were but an illustration of the principles that underlay its methods.
— from The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce

The evidence brought against them was for the most part of no great account, and the old sea captain was unable to say that either man had assaulted him, or, indeed, that he had any clear recollection of anything that had happened after he left the inn.
— from Stories of the Border Marches by Jean Lang

When we quitted the "Larder," a little before one o'clock, all the small parties of National Guards and civilians whom we had observed strolling about at an earlier hour, had congregated on the Place de la Concorde, attracted thither by the news of the special Sunday sitting, at which the Legislative Body would undoubtedly take momentous decisions.
— from My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71 by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

Its repetition can be productive of no good, and may do infinite harm by giving currency to unpleasant reports, and harrowing the feelings of the survivors.
— from Rookwood by William Harrison Ainsworth

It also is the world's fourth largest producer of natural gas and has the fifth largest reserves.
— from The 1994 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

The heart of the priest of Nebo gave a throb of fear.
— from Istar of Babylon: A Phantasy by Margaret Horton Potter

she exclaimed, opening her purse of netted gold; and he took the eight coins and put them on number twenty-four.
— from A Great Man: A Frolic by Arnold Bennett

Shortly afterwards, however (in 1884), seeing that other European powers were considering the possibilities of New Guinea as a suitable region for annexation, the British flag was raised there, and eventually, by agreement with Germany, Great Britain added to her empire the south-eastern parts of New Guinea, together with nearly all the Solomon Islands and the Santa Cruz archipelago.
— from Pioneers in Australasia by Harry Johnston