His son is the Rev. Professor David S. Margoliouth, D.Lit., Laudian Professor of Arabic at Oxford University, and examining chaplain to the Bishop of Liverpool.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

Let the best of our rational physicians demonstrate and give a sufficient reason for those intricate mixtures, why just so many simples in mithridate or treacle, why such and such quantity; may they not be reduced to half or a quarter?
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

And there were some fellows out of second of grammar listening and one of them said: —The senate and the Roman people declared that Dedalus had been wrongly punished.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

If the early acts of his life, the introduction of the Huns into Italy, and of the Vandals into Africa, were among the proximate causes of the ruin of the empire, his murder was the signal for its almost immediate downfall.—M.] Note 72 ( return ) [ Placidia died at Rome, November 27, A.D. 450.
— 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

[48] This passage constitutes the portion of the Galleries of St. Hubert situated at right angles to the two others, called respectively, Passage du Roi, and Passage de la Reine.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

Now the legislation itself which assigns the worth of everything must for that very reason possess dignity, that is an unconditional incomparable worth; and the word respect alone supplies a becoming expression for the esteem which a rational being must have for it.
— from Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals by Immanuel Kant

That I, John Pepys of Ellington, in the county of Huntingdon, Gent.”, doe declare my mind in the disposall of my worldly goods as followeth: “First, I desire that my lands and goods left mee by my brother, Robert Pepys, deceased, bee delivered up to my eldest son, Samuell Pepys, of London, Esqr., according as is expressed in the last Will of my brother Robert aforesaid.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

He caught her up, and there followed some minutes of very rough play, during which it is difficult to say whether the father or the daughter laughed and shouted the loudest.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

Salissa remained provokingly dull and uneventful.
— from The Island Mystery by George A. Birmingham

Ces différens episodes ne se retrouvant pas dans le tableau qui a été exécuté des mains de Raphaël, ne doivent être considérées que comme des essais ou premières pensées.
— from A Treatise on Wood Engraving, Historical and Practical by Henry G. (Henry George) Bohn

A. RILEY, Ph. D., Professor of Insect Morphology and Parasitology in Cornell University and O. A. JOHANNSEN, Ph. D., Professor of Biology in Cornell University.
— from Journal of Entomology and Zoology, Vol. 09, No. 1, March 1917 by Various

Sec. I. General Principle of Rational Practice, Dictated by the Pathology of the Disease, Confirmed by Observation and Experience.
— from Asiatic Cholera: A treatise on its origin, pathology, treatment, and cure by Elijah Whitney

The 56th Rifles put down the heaviest fire they could, of rifles and all the efficient machine-guns with the Brigade.
— from The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad by Edward John Thompson

The rain poured down for two days after our arrival at Kilroy’s Hotel.
— from The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh; and the Irish Sketch Book by William Makepeace Thackeray