The value of that sort which sometimes does, and sometimes does not afford rent, should constantly rise in proportion to that which always affords some rent.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

2 The exact period when this fortress was erected is unknown; though some circumstances render it probable that it was built by King Edgar.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 484, April 9, 1831 by Various

Another of the best speeches of Crassus, was that addressed to the people in favour of the law of Servilius Cæpio, restoring in part the judicial power to the Senate, of which they had been recently deprived, in order to vest it solely in the body of knights.
— from History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Vol. II by John Colin Dunlop

Could the unknowing gods, waked in compassion, Eternalize the splendour of this hour, And from the world's frail garlands strongly fashion An ageless Paradise, celestial bower, Where our long-sundered souls could rise in power To the complete fulfilment of their dream, And never know again that years devour Petals and light, bird-note and woodland theme, And floods of young desire, bright as a silver stream, Should we be happy, thou and I together, Lying in love eternally in spring, Watching the buds unfold that shall not wither, Hearing the birds calling and answering, When the leaves stir and all the meadows ring?
— from The Five Books of Youth by Robert Hillyer

61 It is significant that the fact Mr Archer so confidently rejects is precisely that on which I am at one with Mr Freeman, Mr Hunt, and Mr Oman, and to which the original authorities bear witness with peculiar unanimity.
— from Feudal England: Historical Studies on the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries by John Horace Round

But the State cannot risk its property too far.
— from Euthenics, the science of controllable environment A plea for better living conditions as a first step toward higher human efficiency by Ellen H. (Ellen Henrietta) Richards

The neighbouring hills were no longer able to meet the demand, the stones continually rose in price, the better qualities could hardly be procured, and thus the agate manufactory was menaced with decline, when a fortunate circumstance gave it a new impulse.
— from The Subterranean World by G. (Georg) Hartwig

The richly sculptured canopy rises in pinnacles to the roof, and the whole work reveals the enormous wealth of the Avignonese Popes.
— from The Motor Routes of France To the Châteaux of Touraine, Biarritz, the Pyrenees, the Riviera, & the Rhone Valley by Gordon Home

To save continual references I prefer to speak at once and now of those which I used principally: Mackenzie Wallace's work entitled "Russia" abounds in practical insight and appreciation; Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu's "The Empire of the Czars" is a profound, exact, and finished study, so acknowledged even by the Russians themselves in their most just and calm judgments; Tikomirov's "Russia, Political and Social" is clear and comprehensible, though rather radical and passionate, as might be expected of the work of an exile; Melchior de Voguié's "The Russian Novel" is a critical study of incomparable delicacy, though I do not always acquiesce in his conclusions.
— from Russia: Its People and Its Literature by Pardo Bazán, Emilia, condesa de