Are those who make a trade of religion religious people?
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

You can get the details of the lives of all the celebrated ecclesiastics in the list; all the celebrated tragedians, comedians, singers, dancers, orators, judges, lawyers, poets, dramatists, historians, biographers, editors, inventors, reformers, statesmen, generals, admirals, discoverers, prize-fighters, murderers, pirates, conspirators, horse-jockeys, bunco-steerers, misers, swindlers, explorers, adventurers by land and sea, bankers, financiers, astronomers, naturalists, claimants, impostors, chemists, biologists, geologists, philologists, college presidents and professors, architects, engineers, painters, sculptors, politicians, agitators, rebels, revolutionists, patriots, demagogues, clowns, cooks, freaks, philosophers, burglars, highwaymen, journalists, physicians, surgeons—you can get the life-histories of all of them but one .
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

M. 15 Æqua tellus / Pauperi recluditur / Regumque pueris —The impartial earth opens alike for the child of the pauper and of the king.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

The latter was then led towards the mouth of the Mercy, and all climbing the left bank of the river, reached Prospect Heights.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

Hearing these words he cheerfully arose, and mounted his horse, and rode but half a mile, when he saw before him a strong castle, with deep ditches round it, and a fair river running past.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

( Rockhill , Rubruck , p. 150, note.—H. C.)]
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

John R. Neil BOOKS OF WONDER WILLIAM MORROW & COMPANY, INC. NEW YORK Copyright 1904 by L. Frank Baum All rights reserved Published, July, 1904
— from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Their inflection is representative too, since tenses mark important practical differences in the distribution of the events described, and cases express the respective rôles played by objects in the operation.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Thus from the tents the fervent legion swarms, So loud their clamours, and so keen their arms: Their rising rage Patroclus' breath inspires, Who thus inflames them with heroic fires: "O warriors, partners of Achilles' praise!
— from The Iliad by Homer

Principal Causes Maintaining The Democratic Republic—Part III Principal Causes Which Render Religion Powerful In America Care taken by the Americans to separate the Church from the State—The laws, public opinion, and even the exertions of the clergy concur to promote this end—Influence of religion upon the mind in the United States attributable to this cause—Reason of this—What is the natural state of men with regard to religion at the present time—What are the peculiar and incidental causes which prevent men, in certain countries, from arriving at this state.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

[76] “Even more damage must have been done farther down the river,” remarked Penny anxiously.
— from The Secret Pact by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt

Jacques Ferrand delighted, with cruel joy, in the manifest impatience of the duchess, who, under the appearance of coolness and hauteur, repressed really painful agony.
— from The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 3 of 6 by Eugène Sue

His house is not quite a mile from this place, and if he should not be at home himself, be hath a pretty young man to his son, whose name is Civility, that can do it (to speak on) as well as the old gentleman himself; there, I say, thou mayest be eased of thy burden; and if thou art not minded to go back to thy former habitation, as, indeed, I would not wish thee, thou mayest send for thy wife and children to thee to this village, where there are houses now stand empty, one of which thou mayest have at reasonable rates; provision is there also cheap and good; and that which will make thy life the more happy is, to be sure, there thou shalt live by honest neighbours, in credit and good fashion.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan

YALE ILLUSTRATED BY ADA BUDELL NEW YORK MOFFAT, YARD AND COMPANY 1909 Copyright, 1909, by MOFFAT, YARD AND COMPANY NEW YORK All Rights Reserved ——— Published, October, 1909 TO MY DAUGHTERS WITH THE HOPE THAT THEY MAY ALWAYS BE “GIVEN TO HOSPITALITY”
— from When Mother Lets Us Give a Party A book that tells little folk how best to entertain and amuse their little friends by Elsie Duncan Yale

The issuing of that order and the discharge of the other Red Rock prisoners inspired Leech to hurry up the prosecution of Captain Allen.
— from Red Rock: A Chronicle of Reconstruction by Thomas Nelson Page

Passengers supplied with provisions and liquors, of first quality, at most reasonable rates possible.
— from Waterways of Westward Expansion - The Ohio River and its Tributaries by Archer Butler Hulbert

[Pg 4] COPYRIGHT, 1901, BY ABBY M. FISKE, EXECUTRIX ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Published September, 1901
— from Life Everlasting by John Fiske

These were: a model granary in rough red pottery ( Pl. VI ), each little storehouse having an opening above, closed by a stopper; another similar granary in fragments, three vertical alabaster jars, an alabaster circular table, and the group of bowls and model tools shown in Pl.
— from El Kab by James Edward Quibell