And here, to do you service, am become As new into the world, strange, unacquainted— I do beseech you, as in way of taste, To give me now a little benefit Out of those many regist’red in promise, Which you say live to come in my behalf.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

I supposed we should scarcely have knives and forks, and only some strange, uncouth, ill-drest dish: but I found every thing in very good order.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

All that has been said of the importance of individuality of character, and diversity in opinions and modes of conduct, involves, as of the same unspeakable importance, diversity of education.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

5 Or, ‘consisting of two numbers squared upon irrational diameters,’ &c. = 100.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

[13] And as I have added nothing to the proposed revenue for any prospective profits on such undertakings, I do not propose to make any estimate of expenditure.
— from Garden Cities of To-Morrow Being the Second Edition of "To-Morrow: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform" by Howard, Ebenezer, Sir

This hath been strongly urged in defence of Homer's miracles; and it is perhaps a defence; not, as Mr Pope would have it, because Ulysses told a set of foolish lies to the Phaeacians, who were a very dull nation; but because the poet himself wrote to heathens, to whom poetical fables were articles of faith.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

By the advantage of some brush which they had laid upon the raft to sit upon, I did not wet my foot (which many of themselves at the other end were mid-leg deep) which cannot but be acknowledged as a favor of God to my weakened body, it being a very cold time.
— from Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson by Mary White Rowlandson

It must have been a pretty sight, the fierce industry of these beggars toiling on a motionless ship that floated quietly in the silence of a world asleep, fighting against time for the freeing of that boat, grovelling on all-fours, standing up in despair, tugging, pushing, snarling at each other venomously, ready to kill, ready to weep, and only kept from flying at each other’s throats by the fear of death that stood silent behind them like an inflexible and cold-eyed taskmaster.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

Ever so many other “fakers” were shown up in due time.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

Such a genius as philosophers must of necessity have is wont but seldom, in all its parts, to meet in one man; but its different parts generally spring up in different persons.
— 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.

I moved towards him, with the intention of checking his demonstration, when his valor was swallowed up in discretion, and he rushed towards the school building.
— from Breaking Away; or, The Fortunes of a Student by Oliver Optic

[ Pg 124] SUGGESTED USE OF BLOCK PRINTING FOR END PAPER [ Pg 125] All shapes used in design resolve themselves into certain recognized types.
— from Batik and Other Pattern Dyeing by Ida Strawn Baker

The King of Prussia alone stood up in defence of the Electoral-college; but he had his reasons for this specious conduct.
— from Memoirs of the Marchioness of Pompadour (vol. 1 of 2) by Pompadour, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, marquise de

They render the soil unequal in depth, taking it from one point where it is wanted, and heaping it upon another where it is not wanted, thus giving the crops an uneven growth.
— from Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles by Henry F. (Henry Flagg) French

In short, unless I deceive myself, it will make a stir.
— from Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885 by Various

part of the Heavens nigh the star marked 26 on the shoulder of the little Lion and continued tracing its path among the fixed stars untill it disappeared and it was generally admitted that I had discovered it four days before any other person in Britain.
— from Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville by Mary Somerville

Drops in production have been severe since the break up of the Soviet Union in December 1991, but by mid-1995 production began to recover and exports began to increase.
— from The 1997 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Adams, John, 109 Adams, J. Quincy, 109 Africa benighted by Slavery, 9 African Repository, Extracts from, 123 , 133 , 137 African Individuals of distinction, 157 to 167 Amalgamation, 132 , 200 Ancient and Modern Slavery compared, 38 Anti-Slavery Society, 142 Appleton, Mr. 78 Baptism supposed to confer freedom, 58 Bible opposed to slavery, 32 Blood-hounds, 27 Brown, Moses, 98 Brodnax, Mr. 79 Capt. Riley, 73 Charles 5th, refused to sanction the slave-trade, 8 Child follows the condition of its mother, 40 Christianity abolished slavery, 58 Clay, Henry, 77 , 136 Clothing of Slaves, 44 Code Noir, 46 , 49 , 54 Colonization, 123 Cruelties to Slaves, 17 , 24 , 26 , 28 Devonshire, Duchess of, 215 Democracy of the North, 112 District of Columbia, 216 Duelling, 113 Dymond, Jonathan, 147 Eastern and Western Virginia, 119 Effect of Slavery on the Masters, 22 Egyptians, 149 Elizabeth of England tolerated the trade, 8 Emancipation safe, 87 English formerly sold to Irish, 58 Entailed upon us by England, 75 Ethiopians, 149 Everett, Alexander H. 176 Evidence of colored persons not admitted, 45 , 48 Faulkner, Mr. 79 Female slaves unprotected, 23 Fierceness and pride induced by Slavery, 113 Food of Slaves, 44 French planter's ideas of religion for Slaves, 58 Free Labor, 76 Garrison, Mr. 209 Gentoo Code, 52 Gholson, Mr. 102 Grecian Slavery, 47 , 53 , 54 , 56 Happiness of Slaves, 140 Hayne, Mr. 103 Hayti, 86 , 121 Hebrews, 48 , 52 , 55 Helots, 47 Humanity of masters, how far a protection, 72 Indian treatment of Slaves, 46 Inequality of laws for offences, 60 Insurrections, 194 Intellect of Africans, 151 , 170 Internal slave-trade, 33 Interest to treat slaves well, 30 Jefferson, Thomas, 22 Kenrick, John, 215 Kidnapping, 34 , 65 Labor compulsory and uncompensated, 41 Lafayette, 97 Laws regulating labor, 43 , 44 Laws obstruct emancipation, 54 Laws to perpetuate ignorance, 59 , 67 , 70 Laws against Free Colored People, 63 Louis 13th, 8 Marriages, laws concerning, 196 Martineau, Harriet, 83 Masters have absolute power to punish, 49 Miller, Gov. of S. Carolina, 103 Missouri Question, 120 Moral Character of Africans, 177 Moss, Mary and Helen, 24 New-England kept in check by jealousy of the Slave States, 114 North and South, 31 Ohio and Kentucky, 86 Offences punished in Slaves, 61 Park, Mungo, 177 Pauperism, comparative in West Indies, 90 Petitions, 216 Pinckney, Charles, 108 Political power of Slave States, 111 Portuguese, 7 , 48 , 54 Prejudice against color almost unknown in other countries, 135 , 208 Prejudice cherished by Colonization, 133 Prejudice, instances of, 198 to 209 Quakers, 213 Religious privileges of Slaves, 57 Roane, Mr. 139 Roman Slaves, 47 , 54 , 55 Runaways, 62 , 71 Sectional dislike, 121 Slave Trade, beginning of, 7 Slave Ship, description of, 12 Slave Trade, cruelties of, 17 Slave Trade defended in House of Commons, 19 Slave Trade sanctioned by Constitution of the United States for twenty years, 36 Slave cut in pieces, 26 Slave Codes, different degrees of mildness, 39 Slavery, hereditary and perpetual, 42 Slaves cannot own property, 46 , 71 Slaves considered as chattels, 45 Slaves in Africa, 48 Slaves never allowed to resist, 52 Slaves in U. S. cannot redeem themselves, 53 Slaves unprotected in domestic relations, 54 Slave Representation, 105 Slavery veiled in the Constitution, 106 Son, who murdered his father to obtain freedom, 23 Southerners do not desire the abolition of Slavery, 100 Southerner, conversation with, 139 Spanish Slaves, 7 , 48 , 54 , 56 St. Domingo, 86 Sutcliff's Travels, 81 Toussaint L'Ouverture, 166 Turkey, 56 Union, 119 Washington's Slaves, 96 Washington had doubts, 107 Wirt, William, 102 Wright, Gov. of Maryland, 106 Zhinga, 154 Transcriber's Note This ebook retains the spelling variations and inconsistencies of the original document.
— from An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans by Lydia Maria Child

"I had not yet seen one of the full-grown reptiles, of which the Indians spoke to me so much (always with some exaggeration), when one afternoon, crossing the mountains with two shepherds, our attention was attracted by the sustained barking of my dogs, who seemed assailing some animal that stood upon its defense.
— from The Story of Magellan and The Discovery of the Philippines by Hezekiah Butterworth

Though there are many flowers intrinsically more beautiful, I do not know one more quaintly original, than this: shooting up, in dark wet woods, by roots of trees, old walls, or among dead leaves, pure and white and lonely and strangely suggestive of some wild individuality, silently symbolical of old sweet stories of Naiads and Dryads and Russian Rusalkas and Heine Loreleis.
— from A Mine of Faults by F. W. (Francis William) Bain