Therefore in your rewards and punishments examine carefully every part of their conduct, and judge calmly, not hastily, and be sure you are just.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

As this subject belongs very properly to the present question concerning the will, we shall here examine it to the bottom, and shall consider some of those circumstances and situations of objects, which render a passion either calm or violent.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

No doubt its use renders a great number of very extraordinary things possible; for, of course, the most remarkable and, possibly, even criminal proceedings may be effected with impunity by thus dodging, as it were, into the interstices of time.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

From Bayambang they struck off from the railroad and proceeded eastward comfortably and unmolested a day’s journey, to a town in the adjoining province of Nueva Ecija (Rosales) where they received a cordial reception at the hands of the Presidente (Mayor)—Aguinaldo’s Presidente of course, not the Presidente left over from the Spanish régime.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

And when that Macedonian Philip was upbraided with his wife's dishonesty, cum tot victor regnorum ac populorum esset , &c., a conqueror of kingdoms could not tame his wife (for she thrust him out of doors), he made a jest of it.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

(1) Trying to reconstruct from the Hamlet of the play, one would not judge that his temperament was melancholy in the present sense of the word; there seems nothing to show that; but one would judge that by temperament he [110] was inclined to nervous instability, to rapid and perhaps extreme changes of feeling and mood, and that he was disposed to be, for the time, absorbed in the feeling or mood that possessed him, whether it were joyous or depressed.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

Et quum aliquantulum quieuisset Cyngis, præparauit se rursus ad prælium et contra terram Huiyrorum processit ad bellum.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 02 by Richard Hakluyt

The first auditors of his verses were the obscure dwellers among Scottish hills and hamlets, and to his words he received as true a response as poetic enthusiasm could have desired.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVII, No. 1, July 1850 by Various

If he is at liberty, he will seem to imagine that something is lost, and he will eagerly search round the room, and particularly every corner of it, with strange violence and indecision.
— from The Dog by William Youatt

—During the night Washington left a front line of camp-fires burning, and a few soldiers noisily digging trenches and throwing up breastworks, while his entire army made a circuitous march around Cornwallis, got in his rear, attacked Princeton early, captured three regiments and a lot of supplies, and moved on to Morristown, a strong place where the British dared not attack him.
— from The Story of American History for Elementary Schools by Albert F. (Albert Franklin) Blaisdell

Can’t be regarded as permanent, eh, Cromlech?
— from Tales of two people by Anthony Hope

"My brother has spoken well," the chief answered, with a smile; "he can be at rest, and place entire confidence in those to whom I am about to lead him."
— from The Pirates of the Prairies: Adventures in the American Desert by Gustave Aimard

From thence the song was probably carried to Canada, where it reappears as Pinson et Cendrouille , "The finch and the nuthatch" (G., p. 275).
— from Comparative Studies in Nursery Rhymes by Lina Eckenstein

By R. A. Proctor , Edward Clodd , Andrew Wilson , Thomas Foster , and A. C. Ranyard .
— from A Classified Catalogue of Works in General Literature Published by Longmans, Green, & Co. by Longmans, Green, and Co.

These discoveries brought a rapid inrush of European miners, financiers, and their miscellaneous camp-followers, and in a few years a very rich and populous European community had established itself in the Transvaal, and had created as its centre the mushroom new city of Johannesburg (founded 1884).
— from The Expansion of Europe; The Culmination of Modern History by Ramsay Muir