For it is the part of noble minds in some manner to acknowledge their faults, even when there is no fault; because very often that is done without a fault, which, nevertheless, proceeded from a fault.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

In order to get the secret, undiscovered, and unwitnessed suffering out of the world it was almost compulsory to invent gods and a hierarchy of intermediate beings, in short, something which wanders even among secret places, sees even in the dark, and makes a point of never missing an interesting and painful spectacle.
— from The Genealogy of Morals The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

There are in the district nearly five hundred registered mines, of which three are worked by European Companies, the rest being either private mines, i.e. mines claimed by Malays, which have been worked by them and their ancestors for an indefinite period, or new mines, in other words new concessions given indifferently on application to Malays and Chinese.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

But there should 291 be only signified thereby a kind of causality of nature after the analogy of our own in the technical use of Reason, in order to have before us the rule according to which certain products of nature must be investigated.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

Paciano Rizal, José’s elder brother, had retired from Page 95 Manila on the death of Doctor Burgos and devoted himself to farming; in some ways, perhaps, his career suggested the character of Tasio, the philosopher of “Noli Me Tangere.”
— from Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot by Austin Craig

——Moses, as well from the intimations scattered in his writings, the passage relating to the translation of Enoch, (Gen. v. 24,) the prohibition of necromancy, (Michaelis believes him to be the author of the Book of Job though this opinion is in general rejected; other learned writers consider this Book to be coeval with and known to Moses,) as from his long residence in Egypt, and his acquaintance with Egyptian wisdom, could not be ignorant of the doctrine of the immortality of the soul.
— 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

Mindanao, Visayas, and Paragua A hundred and twenty-five years ago, these colonies were a small nation of 2,500,000 people, occupying no more than the Atlantic coast of the continent.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

There must be something very comprehensive in this phrase of ‘Never mind,’ for we do not recollect to have ever witnessed a quarrel in the street, at a theatre, public room, or elsewhere, in which it has not been the standard reply to all belligerent inquiries.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

A few inches of cold steel has been the punishment of many an unwary man, who has been guilty, perhaps, of nothing more than indiscretion of manner.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

An individual might fail to be a perfect man or a perfect monkey, but the specific human or simian ideal, by which he had been formed in so far as he was formed at all, was not affected by this accidental resistance in the matter at hand, as an adamantine seal, even if at times the wax by defect or impurity failed to receive a perfect impression, would remain unchanged and ready to be stamped perpetually on new material.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

See Feather Chant Áya Kĭnné̆ , a traditional people, 106 -107 Badger in Jicarilla mythology, 61 in Navaho mythology, 90 Badger People of the Navaho, 84 , 95 Bahózhonchi , a Navaho priesthood, 83 songs of the, 125 [pg 148] Balíl , sacred wand of the Navaho, 93 , 114 , 116 , 118 Basket in Jicarilla mythology, 68 medicine, in Navaho Night Chant, 118 wedding, of the Navaho, 126 , 127 Basket drum of the Jicarillas, 57 in Navaho Night Chant, 119 , 121 Basketry of the Apache, 20 -21, 42 , 132 of the Jicarillas, 54 , 135 of the Navaho, 77 , 136 sacred symbol prescribed for, 20 , 21 , 42 , 44 See Water Bottle Baskets , burden, used by Apache, 17 , 19 , 132 Jicarilla, traded for corn, 134 , 135 Bat in Jicarilla mythology, 67 -68 Bathing by the Apache, 16 following puberty rite, 47 See Hair-washing ; Washing Bead Chant of the Navaho, 78 Beads , cross and crescent worked in, 42 of precious stones in Navaho myth, 104 shell, in Navaho mythology, 106 -107 shell, mixed with pollen, 38 silver, of the Navaho, 76 , 77 symbolic of prayer, 34 used in puberty rite, 46 , 47 white, on medicine caps, 40 Beans depicted in dry-painting, 121 Bear People of Navaho mythology, 111 Bears in Apache mythology, 35 in Jicarilla mythology, 56 , 58 , 64 in Navaho dry-painting, 79 in Navaho mythology, 97 , 102 , 106 tabooed as food by Apache, 20 tabooed as food by Jicarillas, 135 Bear Springs valley, 11 Bear, Tracking , a Navaho monster, 99 , 106 Beasts of burden in Apache myth, 35 Beaver in Jicarilla mythology, 61 Beds of the Apache, 16 Begging ceremony of the Navaho, 120 , 121 Belts , maternity, used by Apache, 38 -39 silver, of the Navaho, 76 , 126 , 137 Big Dipper in Apache myth, 25 , 27 , 29 in Navaho myth, 92 Big God in Navaho myth, 98 , 105 Bĭlh Ahatí̆nĭ , a Navaho mythic character, 112 -116 Bĭnáyeaganĭ , a Navaho monster, 106 Bird People of Navaho mythology, 95 Birds , creation of, in Apache myth, 27 Birth.
— from The North American Indian, Vol. 1 by Edward S. Curtis

It is also interesting to note that in the late 16th century, the Spanish considered their province of New Mexico to include most of North America west of the Mississippi!
— from Trinity Site by National Atomic Museum (U.S.)

And the prince or nobleman must be a very stingy curmudgeon, to be sure, if, at least, when his own dinner was over, he would not bid them welcome to the broken victuals from the table.
— from Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

As to Sidney, knowing him as I do, I know that those appearances of which I have spoken are entirely fallacious; that his laxity in conversation is only sportiveness; that his attention to his own interests does not surpass the bounds of ordinary prudence; that, on a proper occasion, no man is more charitable, generous, or munificent; none more alive to the misfortunes and even solicitudes of a virtuous sufferer; that his apparent coldness is the effect only of mental abstraction and of judicious caution and reflection; and, in part, of that strong and exhausting flame with which his friendship burns for those whom he grapples to his heart.
— from Discourse of the Life and Character of the Hon. Littleton Waller Tazewell by Hugh Blair Grigsby

He was piqued when, in the midst of something he had wonderfully exerted himself to say, he observed that her attention was distracted by a gentleman opposite, who had just returned from the Continent, and who, among other pieces of news, marriages and deaths of English abroad, mentioned that “poor D’Aubigny” was at last dead.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 10 Helen by Maria Edgeworth

The Indians make travelling very insecure; and the Peons, or native Mexican laborers, in the mines vary the monotony of their employment by an occasional massacre of the superintendent and every other white man about the place.
— from The Underground World: A mirror of life below the surface by Thomas Wallace Knox

Almost simultaneously there appeared south of them a party of naked men armed with clubs and hatchets.
— from Out of Time's Abyss by Edgar Rice Burroughs

A minor consideration, but one that often proves of no minor weight, was the fact that Miss Edgeworth never needed to follow authorship as a profession; its pecuniary results were of no moment to her, and hence she was spared all the bitterness and incidental anxieties of an author's life, the working when the brain should rest, the imperative need to go on, no matter whether there be aught to say or not.
— from Maria Edgeworth by Helen Zimmern