As if Providence had the perpetual establishment of the protestant faith in view, the difference of the durations of the two reigns is worthy of notice.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Towards the close of the Republic, it was often necessary to have recourse to extraordinary expedients in order to supplement the inadequacy of the laws.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Hence I look at individual differences, though of small interest to the systematist, as of the highest importance for us, as being the first step towards such slight varieties as are barely thought worth recording in works on natural history.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

Hence I look at individual differences, though of small interest to the systematist, as of high importance for us, as being the first step towards such slight varieties as are barely thought worth recording in works on natural history.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

The site is charming—a flat palm-orchard backed by an amphitheatre of high-rolling ground, and the majestic stream approaches it through a gate, whose right staple is the tall Chisalla, and whose left is a rocky islet with outlying needles.
— from Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo, Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

When I slept in mother's room, I woke one night, and found she had risen.
— from Afterwards, and Other Stories by Ian Maclaren

"I contended several times in vain," said Pitt, "for the whole exclusive fishery, but I was overruled—I repeat, I was overruled, not by the foreign enemy, but by another enemy."
— from The Story of Newfoundland by Birkenhead, Frederick Edwin Smith, Earl of

One remarkable interment, at Kilham, near Driffield, in the East Riding, is worthy of notice.
— from Byways in British Archaeology by Walter Johnson

Means of defence were multiplied to keep pace with new modes of attack, and our ancestors of the Stone age were intelligent enough to make places of refuge in which on necessity they could shelter their wives and page 280 children, and later, when they became sedentary, their flocks and their stores of grain.
— from Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples by Nadaillac, Jean-François-Albert du Pouget, marquis de

Every bullet had taken effect, and as Hank remarked, "It was of no use except for the top to a pepper box."
— from Harper's Young People, August 23, 1881 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

The question to which we shall continually return is whether or not the characteristic under consideration is inherent and congenital and therefore inevitable.
— from Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic by Sidney Lewis Gulick

But there is one thing certain—that whether Rochefort is witty or not, wise or not, he has waked an echo throughout France and Europe in general which even very wise and undeniably witty enemies of the Empire did not succeed in creating.
— from Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy

The relinquishment of charters of national banks in great commercial centers in favor of State charters indicates that some conditions surround the national banks which render them unable to compete with State banks; and their withdrawal results in weakening our national banking system.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

For the price of the hat was supposed to be eighteen shillings: and the price of the labor being assumed originally at twelve shillings;— leaving six shillings for profits,—it is very possible that a rise in wages of no more than three shillings may be paid out of these profits.
— from Memorials and Other Papers — Volume 2 by Thomas De Quincey