I answer, that they are the representations of numerous, grave, and most respectable bodies of men, upon the affairs of their own country.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

the top row of numbers gives all the possible sums of four different figures, and the bottom row the number of different ways in which each sum may be made.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

" Charles agreed, but declared his resolution of not going away.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

Nor is it much wonder that individuals should reside right in the midst of the garden of Eden and not be aware of it; see many of its peculiar characteristics, and yet not recognize them; simply because they seem natural; were indeed natural; just as God made it; or, the results of natural growth and changes.
— from Found at Last: the Veritable Garden of Eden Or a place that answers the Bible description of the notable spot better than anything yet discovered by D. O. (David Oyer) Van Slyke

The republics of Naples, Gaeta, Amalfi, which might have rivalled perchance with Milan, Genoa, and Florence, were subdued to a master's hand.
— from Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III by John Addington Symonds

They are a race of Northern gipsies, and it is the restless blood of this class rather than any want of natural capacity which retards their civilisation.
— from Northern Travel: Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland by Bayard Taylor

He was the recipient of numerous grants, awards, and fellowships, from such organizations such as the Leopold Schepp Foundation, the Edward MacDowell Association, the New School for Social Research, the Huntington Hartford Foundation, the Montalvo Foundation, Yaddo, and the Carnegie Foundation.
— from The Haciendas of Mexico: An Artist's Record by Paul Alexander Bartlett

"She ought to," replied old Nanny, gravely; and then she covered her face up with her hands.
— from Poor Jack by Frederick Marryat

[138] war would have ensued; they could have allowed the small number of labourers really needed by Mr. Boycott to arrive by threes and fours, at the risk of not getting alive to Lough Mask at all; and they could do as they have done.
— from Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. by Bernard Henry Becker

Moreover, as the mural paintings of the new Pinakothek, like the frescoes in the Arcades and most of the other monumental products of the period, are falling into ruin, and only show traces of their past beauty in a few faint spots of colour not yet entirely effaced, it is quite clear that it was an inherent fallacy of Cornelius to expect a renovation of national German art from fresco painting.
— from The History of Modern Painting, Volume 1 (of 4) Revised edition continued by the author to the end of the XIX century by Richard Muther

All these matchless productions of antiquity, it should be remembered, are the result of native genius alone, without the aid of Christian ideas.
— from The Old Roman World : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. by John Lord

All this was partly the result of natural gifts and partly the fruit of strenuous application and toil.
— from Lives of Illustrious Shoemakers by W. E. (William Edward) Winks