51 sq., 126, 313) maintains that the Galatia of St Paul and St Luke is not the country properly so called, but that they are speaking of the Churches of Pisidian Antioch, Iconium, Lystra, and Derbe, which lay within the Roman province of Galatia.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

According to some authorities this sleep lizard is not the diyâ′hălĭ, but a larger variety akin to the next described.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Sexual selection, by always allowing the victor to breed, might surely give indomitable courage, length of spur, and strength to the wing to strike in the spurred leg, in nearly the same manner as does the brutal cockfighter by the careful selection of his best cocks.
— 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

And I said, "Lord, is not this Thy Scripture true, since Thou art true, and being Truth, hast set it forth?
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

In consequence of like feeling of the nature of socialization the later Roman jurists declared that the societas leonina is not to be regarded as a social compact.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

I love to walk at my ease, and stop at leisure; a strolling life is necessary to me: travelling on foot, in a fine country, with fine weather and having an agreeable object to terminate my journey, is the manner of living of all others most suited to my taste.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

O sir, let it not trouble you.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

And Christ, the seeker learns, is not to be found by wandering through the world.
— from The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell; Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Julian W. Abernethy, Ph.D. by James Russell Lowell

“This bundle is so large it nearly tumbles me over.”
— from History of California by Helen Elliott Bandini

My plan was this: to be faithful in the midst of the unfaithful, immutable and confident in my religion which was the religion of the humble, the simple, and the ignorant; to do the utmost good possible, according to the first of Christ’s commandments; to practise my religion in silence but openly; to domesticate it in my household; [312] to inaugurate a secret, slow, incessant combat which should last, if necessary, till the end of my life.
— from The Non-religion of the Future: A Sociological Study by Jean-Marie Guyau

Sole leather is nine times out of ten given false weight by forcing entirely foreign substances into the leather, such as glucose, barium chloride, magnesium chloride, resins, etc.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 803, May 23, 1891 by Various

For my self I do profess thus much, if a blunt Soldier, May borrow so much from the oyl'd tongu'd Courtier, (That ecchoes whatsoe'er the Prince allows of) All that my long experience hath taught me That have spent three parts of my life at Sea, (Let it not taste of arrogance that I say it) Could not have added reasons of more weight To fortifie your affections, than such As your grace out of observation meerly Already have propounded.
— from Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 09 of 10 by John Fletcher