Enter, Sirs, freely, but first, if you please, Peruse our civil orders, which are these.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

The Corybantes were the Phrygian priests of Cybele, who at Rome were called Galli.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

And, 'What a scene were here,' he cried, 'For princely pomp or churchman's pride!
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

It occurred to me that this tool should be surrendered to the Special Crimes division as a whole, instead of remaining the private property of Chief Inspector Heat.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

The purse had silver in it; and he that could take out a counter, without noise of any of the bells, was adjudged a judicial NYPPER: according to their terms of art, a FOYSTER was a pick-pocket; a NYPPER was a pick purse, or cut-purse.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

Where we have to do with the magnitude (of the perfection) of a thing, we can discover no determinate conception, except that which comprehends all possible perfection or completeness, and it is only the total (omnitudo) of reality which is completely determined in and through its conception alone.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

prescription, custom, use, usage, immemorial usage, practice; prevalence, observance; conventionalism, conventionality; mode, fashion, vogue; etiquette &c. (gentility) 852; order of the day, cry; conformity &c. 82; consuetude,.dustoor[obs3].
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

The peculiar property which this plant possesses of closing its leaves when touched, has caused the natives of India to attribute to it mysterious virtues.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

[Note 74: Napoleon on his arrival in Moscow on the 14th September took up his quarters in the Kremlin, but on the 16th had to remove to the Petrovski Palace or Castle on account of the conflagration which broke out in all quarters of the city.
— from Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

" Penny pieces of copper were first issued in England June 26, 1797.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 472, January 22, 1831 by Various

And it was a notable observation of a wise father, that those which held and persuaded pressure of consciences, were commonly interested therein themselves for their own ends.
— from A Christian Directory, Part 3: Christian Ecclesiastics by Richard Baxter

conisaunce , knowledge, OF. cognoissance , from cognoissant , pr. p. of cognoistre ; Lat. cognoscere .
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

After morality has done its very utmost in clearing up the grounds upon which it rests its decisions—after it has multiplied its rules to any possible point of circumstantiality—there will always continue to arise cases without end, in the shifting combinations of human action, about which a question will remain whether they do or do not fall under any of these rules.
— from Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by Thomas De Quincey

They tried to read, but in place of the print on the pages pictures of cowboys and bucking bronchos danced before their eyes, and they soon shut their books.
— from Comrades of the Saddle; Or, The Young Rough Riders of the Plains by Frank V. Webster

But beyond the reflection that, in matters of this kind (of the propagation of a doctrine or a creed), the first thing to be looked to is the centre, and that this, once mastered, will in course of time draw under its influence the outer circles; that all things cannot be effected at once, and the best thing to be done is to begin with the most important; that, moreover, those statistics are often incorrect with respect to Catholic matters, whether from malicious design, or inadvertence, or want of knowledge, on subjects to which the compilers attached very little importance, so that, if their statements be compared with Catholic official intelligence with regard to the same places, it will be found that many towns and villages which, according to the State Directories would seem to have been altogether forgotten by the Church, were actually in her possession, at least by periodical or occasional visits; apart from all these considerations, there is one more important remark to be made, which includes in its bearing not only the present point of consideration, but, it may be said, the whole life of the Church from the beginning; so that it is really a law of her birth, existence, and propagation.
— from The Irish Race in the Past and the Present by Augustus J. Thébaud

It appears upon examination to be nothing more than a polished piece of cannel coal; but this is what Butler means when he says, ‘Kelly did all his feats upon
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

The President himself, although he admitted that it concerned the Sovereigns more closely than any other person, pointed out certain objections which he begged their Majesties to ponder.
— from In Brief Authority by F. Anstey

The source from which the association sprang is to be found in the [Pg 115] Society of Friends (Quakers), that sect which has always been a faithful proclaimer of the peace principles of Christianity.
— from Pax mundi A concise account of the progress of the movement for peace by means of arbitration, neutralization, international law and disarmament by K. P. (Klas Pontus) Arnoldson