In the following speech, there is a spirit of prophecy which entitles it to particular attention; they were not the words of a random enthusiast, but of one to whom God seems to have given an assurance, that the present abject state of his faithful people should shortly be altered.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Now at this time it was that as king Agrippa was come nigh the walls, and was endeavoring to speak to those that were on the walls about a surrender, he was hit with a stone on his right elbow by one of the slingers; he was then immediately surrounded with his own men.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

The conflict of the two functions cannot be relieved except by one of the greatest of all reconciling considerations, the spirit of the time.
— from American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips

"I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid; and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.
— from Notes on the Book of Leviticus by Charles Henry Mackintosh

A FAULTY RESCUE Eddie Burgin, one of the oldest pilots on Roosevelt Field, tells me this one about how they used the last remaining outdoor “outbuilding” on Roosevelt Field as a homing device to lead a troubled pilot down into the airport.
— from Test Pilot by James Collins

Rambach eventually became one of the outstanding theologians of Halle, as well as preacher at the school church.
— from The Story of Our Hymns by Ernest Edwin Ryden

There is not even any access to the river except by one or two narrow stairs: the 'works' are those whose near neighbourhood is not generally desired: places where they make leather and curry it: or where they make glue or vinegar.
— from South London by Walter Besant

Besides supernatural sources of ascendancy, he alleges the fact that in early ages the Bishops of Rome entertained bishops out of the provinces when they fled to the capital from persecution, or came from other causes, and thus the Roman prelates acquired great influence over the others.
— from The Pope, the Kings and the People A History of the Movement to Make the Pope Governor of the World by a Universal Reconstruction of Society from the Issue of the Syllabus to the Close of the Vatican Council by William Arthur

It is there expressly said, That no election of a King of the Romans shall be entered on, unless the reigning emperor be out of the empire, and with an intent to be absent a long time, or for ever; or that age should render him incapable of government; or there should manifestly appear some great necessity on which the safety of the empire depended .
— from Memoirs of the Marchioness of Pompadour (vol. 1 of 2) by Pompadour, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, marquise de

Whatever we think we must think through the concept of “being” ; whatever we conceive we must conceive as “being” ; but on reflection we easily see that such entities as “nothingness,” “negation or absence or privation of being,” “universality,” “predicate” —and, in general, all relations established by our own thought between our own ideas representative of reality—can have themselves no reality proper, no actual or possible existence, other than that which they get from the mind in virtue of its making them objects of its own thought.
— from Ontology, or the Theory of Being by P. (Peter) Coffey

[76] This chapel is built on the site of the ancient Forum Vetus of the Romans erected by order of the Emperor Trajan.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 15, Nos. 85-90, April 1872-September 1872 A Monthly Magazine by Various

“Now, Master Dick Varley,” said Cameron, touching the young hunter on the shoulder as he stood ready equipped by one of the campfires; “I’m at your service.
— from The Dog Crusoe and his Master by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne