The seeds which they planted, of the evangelic doctrine, were gradually propagated; and before the end of a century, the pious work was achieved by the labors of Ulphilas, whose ancestors had been transported beyond the Danube from a small town of Cappadocia.
— 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

Let this further question be answered: What part of the earth does a part of the soul of the world permeate in order to make the god Tellumo?
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

The invariable order of the sun, moon, and stars, was hastily admitted by Julian, as a proof of their eternal duration; and their eternity was a sufficient evidence that they were the workmanship, not of an inferior deity, but of the Omnipotent King.
— 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

" As the effort of viewing with care under a bright light a distant object is both difficult and irksome, and as this effort has been habitually accompanied, during numberless generations, by the contraction of the eyebrows, the habit of frowning will thus have been much strengthened; although it was originally practised during infancy from a quite independent cause, namely as the first step in the protection of the eyes during screaming.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

The character and situation of his colleagues and successors sometimes urged them to enforce and sometimes inclined them to suspend, the execution of these rigorous laws; nor can we acquire a just and distinct idea of this important period of ecclesiastical history, unless we separately consider the state of Christianity, in the different parts of the empire, during the space of ten years, which elapsed between the first edicts of Diocletian and the final peace of the church.
— 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

But we may suppose, that Pliny, in this passage, only meant to say, that as the sun became vertical to each successive part of the equinoctial district, no shadows were formed in it.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

With respect to the protection of the eye during violent expiratory efforts by the pressure of the eyelids, Professor Donders concludes from his various observations that this action certainly limits or entirely removes the dilatation of the vessels.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

Having thus pointed out the essential defect of the logician's scheme, it is required to state: 2.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

"But a man will naturally put off the evil day as long as he can.
— from Kept in the Dark by Anthony Trollope

The presence of similar phrases in all our modern ceremonies, civil or religious, is a striking proof of the essential difference between the function of the magistrate or priest now and that of his mediæval predecessor.
— from A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 1 of 3 by George Elliott Howard

The pulse of the exiled dandy must have beat quickly.
— from Some Eccentrics & a Woman by Lewis Melville

Thus Pedro, in his travels through most of Christendom, collected invaluable materials for discovery, especially an original of Marco Polo and a map given him at Venice, "which had all the parts of the earth described, whereby Prince Henry was much furthered."
— from Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. With an Account of Geographical Progress Throughout the Middle Ages As the Preparation for His Work. by C. Raymond (Charles Raymond) Beazley

The funeral took place on the eighth day of her decease.
— from English Eccentrics and Eccentricities by John Timbs

323 ; objections to annexing West Florida to Orleans, 323 ; amendment moved to consolidate the Orleans and Mississippi Territories, 323 ; a stipulation in the treaty of cession, 324 ; to waste the territories would violate previous engagements, 324 ; the consent of Georgia would be necessary, 324 ; meaning of the constitution, 324 ; the right to become States was conceded to the old territories before the adoption of the constitution, 325 ; the article of the constitution was unnecessary unless it applied to new territory, 325 ; not for us to consider who shall be their Senators, 325 ; Mobile and Orleans should not be under the same government, 325 ; the trust embraced in the amendment is too extensive for a local State government, 325 ; other geographical limits proposed, 325 ; amendment disagreed to, 326 ; claims of the United States respecting the western limits of the Orleans Territory, 326 ; this bill extends jurisdiction over the province of Texas, 326 ; remarks relative to arranging the western boundary, 326 ; the principle of this bill materially affects the liberties and rights of the whole people of the United States, 327 ; it would justify a revolution in this country, 327 ; if this bill passes, the bonds of the Union are virtually dissolved, 327 ; called to order, 327 ; repeated, that its passage is virtually a dissolution of the Union, &c., 327 ; decision of the Speaker on the propriety of the expression demanded, 327 ; decision that a portion of the remarks are in order, and a portion not, 327 ; appeal from the decision, 327 ; Speaker not sustained, 327 ; the separation of the States resulting from a violation of the constitution, is a necessity deeply to be deprecated, 327 ; the bill assumes that this National government without recurrence to conventions of the people or Legislatures of the States, can admit new portions in countries out of the original limits of the United States, 328 ; if this authority is delegated by the constitution, it results from its general nature as from its particular provisions, 328 ; the preamble examined, 328 ; its meaning, the extent of the country at that time, Louisiana not then in the limits, 328 ; if any particular power exists, it is the treaty-making power, 329 ; this power examined, 329 ; this question goes to the very seat of the power and influence of the present members of the Union, 329 ; the term, "New States," applies to territory within the then limits of the Union, 329 ; evidence of history, 329 ; resolution passed, July 3d, 178 8, is further authority, 329 ; its meaning, 330 ; the evidence should be very strong to prove the terms intended something else besides this obvious purpose, 330 ; its meaning can be proved, both affirmatively, with regard to new States from the existing limits, and negatively, against new States without those limits, 330 ; this assertion examined, 330 ; is it possible that such a power, if it had been intended to be given by the people, should have been left dependent upon the effect of general expressions, 331 ; it is not so much a question concerning the exercise of sovereignty, as it is who shall be sovereign, 331 ; the treaty-making power has limitations, 331 ; the situation of New Orleans, 332 ; the moral and political consequences of usurping this power, 332 ; what is this liberty of which so much is said? 333 ; no fear of analyzing the nature of this love of our Union, 333 ; [Pg 759] this bill, if passed is a death-blow to the constitution, 334 ; the bill will neither justify a dissolution of the Union nor lead any citizen attached to it to contemplate it, 334 ; our authority to erect new States is proved by theory and practice, 334 ; the articles of confederation are evidence, 334 ; similarity of the constitution and the articles of confederation in many sections, 324 ; further debate, 324 ; indefinite postponement lost, 335 ; bill passed, 335 .
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 4 (of 16) by United States. Congress

The northern part of the eastern division of the principality, founded by Lohangga, has been lately formed into a distinct district, and its Subah resides at Chayenpur.
— from An Account of The Kingdom of Nepal And of the Territories Annexed to this Dominion by the House of Gorkha by Francis Hamilton

My kind love to her, Fan, and Jem. 'Ever, my dearest Father, 'Your affectionate and dutiful Son, 'J. C. PATTESON.' On the ensuing day, Sunday, September 14, 1853, John Coleridge Patteson received the Diaconate at the hands of the venerable Bishop Phillpotts, in Exeter Cathedral.
— from Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

To us now, with our remembrance of Kars and Silistria, of the Crimea and Hobart Pasha, of Cyprus and Besika Bay, these things seem like a dream; and the more so, that the Mediterranean powers of the earlier day viewed the Russian approach with ill-concealed mistrust, and laid severe restrictions upon the use of their ports.
— from The Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire 1793-1812, vol 1 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan