Nec tibi congressus primos a morte resurgens Et voces audire suas et membra videre, Immortale decus lumenque habitura per aevum, Nequicquam dedit aetherei rex Christus Olympi.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 07, April 1868 to September, 1868 by Various

They say that the only thing which can individualize or perpetuate a commonwealth is to have a history; and they ask which of the States lately in rebellion, except Virginia and South Carolina, had anything of the kind?
— from The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays by James Russell Lowell

Without either affirming or denying that, on the simple scores of etymological regularity, etymological variety, and syntactic logic, the Sanskrit may be their equal, it must still be admitted that this last-named language has no claims to a high value as a practical philological discipline upon the grounds of its universality as a point of education; nor will it have.
— from The English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

Upon the San Pedro river were the missions of St. Mark, San Salvadore, San Pantaleon, Santa Cruz, and the towns of Quiduria, Rosario, Eugenia, Victoria, and San Fernando—the latter at the mouth—with many more.
— from Memoir of the Proposed Territory of Arizona by Sylvester Mowry

While the aged landlord conducts me to the bath, where he insists upon washing me himself as if I were a child, the wife prepares for us a charming little repast of rice, eggs, vegetables, and sweetmeats.
— from Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: First Series by Lafcadio Hearn

This is a natural feature in a nation which has a deity to represent every vice and sin, and lends a certain character to the tales of Southern India different to the folklore of other countries.
— from Tales of the Sun; or, Folklore of Southern India by Pandit Natesa Sastri