Artemidorus says, that Timæus of Tauromenium, in consequence of his ignorance of these decrees, and being otherwise a calumniator and detractor, (whence he had the name of Epitimæus, or Reviler,) avers that the Ephesians restored the temple by means of the treasure deposited there by the Persians.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

But Adam, with such counsel nothing swayed, To better hopes his more attentive mind Labouring had raised; and thus to Eve replied.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Boyle proved that light from the wood was able to pass a vacuum and later showed that "shining fish" behaved as the "shining wood," but that a piece of white hot iron would not regain its light on readmitting air to the exhausted receiver and that the iron lost its glow under the air-pump merely because it cooled off.
— from The Nature of Animal Light by E. Newton (Edmund Newton) Harvey

A strong horn-work was afterwards captured by the Dutch, and preparations were made for a general storm [7] of the main breach; but Marshal de Schomberg advancing at the head of a powerful French army to relieve the town, the siege was raised, and the three English regiments, having sustained a severe loss, were sent into quarters in Holland.
— from Historical Record of the Sixth, or Royal First Warwickshire Regiment of Foot Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in the Year 1674, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1838 by Richard Cannon

After the most rigid and, as far as practicable, unbiased examination of the subject, the United States have always contended that their rights appertain to the entire region of country lying on the Pacific and embraced within 42 and 54 40' of north latitude.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

The second return, as to the escape, refers to the same party, Shadrach.
— from Report of the Proceedings at the Examination of Charles G. Davis, Esq., on the Charge of Aiding and Abetting in the Rescue of a Fugitive Slave: Held in Boston, in February, 1851. by Charles G. (Charles Gideon) Davis

Indigo cirkesa ,[419] three sorts, the best at fourteen rupees, each worth half a dollar; the second sort, twelve rupees, and the third, eight rupees for the great maund, of thirty-three pounds.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 by Robert Kerr

To me, brought up in the severity of Sabbatarianism, the sanctity of the first day of the week had always been a theological fiction, and the result of the contact with the larger world of thinkers and the widening of my range of thought by the study of philosophy had also made me see that the observances of "new moons and fast-days" had nothing to do with true religion, and that the Eden repose of the Creator was too large a matter to be fenced into a day of the week.
— from The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I by William James Stillman

For their sake a great literature of translations and adaptations was made, beginning with Layamon's English version of Wace's Brut , which by the end of the century made the cycle of French romance accessible to the English reader.
— from The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) by T. F. (Thomas Frederick) Tout

43 Similarly, in order that a sound system of speculative and [pg 030] practical philosophy be expounded, developed, and defended at the present time, a system that will embrace and co-ordinate the achieved results of modern scientific research, a system that will offer the most satisfactory solutions of old difficulties in new forms and give the most reasonable and reliable answers to the ever recurring questionings of man concerning his own nature and destiny—it is clear that the insufficiency of individual effort must be supplemented by the co-operation of numbers.
— from Ontology, or the Theory of Being by P. (Peter) Coffey