Further, its representative relation to the world must be very deep, absolutely true, and strikingly accurate, because it is instantly understood by every one, and has the appearance of a certain infallibility, because its form may be reduced to perfectly definite rules expressed in numbers, from which it cannot free itself without entirely ceasing to be music.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

The cause, then, of the greatness of the Roman empire is neither fortuitous nor fatal, according to the judgment or [Pg 178] opinion of those who call those things fortuitous which either have no causes, or such causes as do not proceed from some intelligible order, and those things fatal which happen independently of the will of God and man, by the necessity of a certain order .
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

This narrative of obscure and remote events is not foreign to the decline and fall of the Roman empire.
— 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

Subsequently the three associated Republics entered into negotiations for taking the steps forecast in the original compact.
— from Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents William McKinley, Messages, Proclamations, and Executive Orders Relating to the Spanish-American War by William McKinley

There has recently emerged into notice, from her hiding-place in one of the outskirts of London, an ancient woman whose surroundings forcibly illustrate the persevering vitality of even the insanest forms of religious belief.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 15, No. 86, February, 1875 by Various

Considerable maintenance and repair expense is necessary for the equipment which we desire to retain in active status or in war reserve.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

They were of a friendly disposition, and gave their visitors a cordial welcome, readily entered into negotiations for the sale of beaver-skins, and the two parties mutually agreed to maintain a friendly intercourse in the future.
— from Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 01 by Samuel de Champlain

Rats enhance in numbers, faster than shoe pegs do by machinery.
— from The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Josh Billings

Aurelle, who looked after him a good deal, found out that he regarded everything in nature from the point of view of a goat.
— from The Silence of Colonel Bramble by André Maurois

Floyd was ordered by Johnston not to fight in the city.(25) Pandemonium reigned everywhere in Nashville for a week before it was taken.
— from Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 by Joseph Warren Keifer