Before we in the interior could know it, hundreds, yea thousands of barrels of salt and millions of dollars had been disbursed; and I have no doubt that Bragg's army at Tupelo, and Van Dorn's at Vicksburg, received enough salt to make bacon, without which they could not have moved their armies in mass; and that from ten to twenty thousand fresh arms, and a due supply of cartridges, have also been got, I am equally satisfied.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Forgotten were its treasures and its majesty and I said, "Oh, surely here in the homes of the people are lodged at last the strength and the responsibility of this government, the hope and the promise of this republic."— Henry W. Grady .
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

Wherefore,” said he, “it behoves us to respond to His heavenly admonition with due fear and love; that, as often as the air is moved and He puts forth His hand threatening to strike, but does not yet let it fall, we may immediately implore His mercy; and searching the recesses of our hearts, and casting out the dregs of our sins, we may carefully so act that we may never deserve to be struck down.”
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

It may be held—and rightly, I think—that the prophecies which answer to nothing inward, the prophecies which are merely supernatural, produce, now at any rate, much less imaginative effect than the others,—even that they are in Macbeth an element which was of an age and not for all time; but still they are there, and they are essential to the plot.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

A man of fortune, for example, may either spend his revenue in a profuse and sumptuous table, and in maintaining a great number of menial servants, and a multitude of dogs and horses; or, contenting himself with a frugal table, and few attendants, he may lay out the greater part of it in adorning his house or his country villa, in useful or ornamental buildings, in useful or ornamental furniture, in collecting books, statues, pictures; or in things more frivolous, jewels, baubles, ingenious trinkets of different kinds; or, what is most trifling of all, in amassing a great wardrobe of fine clothes, like the favourite and minister of a great prince who died a few years ago.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

An Invalid's Visit By Proxy It is not necessary that an invalid make any attempt to return the visits to her friends who are attentive enough to go often to see her.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Has she given them an imposing manner, a stern eye, a loud and threatening voice with which to make themselves feared?
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Many of them are in matter and form gems of perfect [ 340 ] beauty.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

The serenity of the sky and the fragrance of the air invited me abroad.
— from The Boarding School; Lessons of a Preceptress to Her Pupils Consisting of Information, Instruction and Advice, Calculated to Improve the Manners and Form the Character of Young Ladies. To Which Is Added, a Collection of Letters, Written by the Pupils to Their Instructress, Their Friends, and Each Other. by Hannah Webster Foster

All the acquaintances I met asked me the news with eagerness.
— from Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Complete by Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de

Christian apologists have often egregiously erred, not only in hastily accepting statements as to supposed facts, but in admitting the validity of the reasoning which has been eagerly founded on them, and in making a fruitless attempt to twist scripture into harmony with what science itself has subsequently disowned.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 04, October 1883 by Chautauqua Institution

Well, the most obvious thing about her that I can recall was her very, very great desire to help and dominate people, to help solve their problems, is the thing that always impressed me about her.
— from Warren Commission (10 of 26): Hearings Vol. X (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

Did any mother's heart, fluttering with loving thoughts of [Pg 310] her own infant, yearn for the rescue of this poor little being, tricked out in sparkling tinsel and pink gauze, trembling alone in mid air on a single rope?
— from The Sunny South: An Autumn in Spain and Majorca by John William Clayton

[364] The lower world, according to Aristotle, is so connected with the courses on high that all its motives and changes seem to take thence their origin and to be governed thence.
— from Harvey's Views on the Use of the Circulation of the Blood by John Green Curtis

The cell, when once shut, also becomes thinner; and is so much so, immediately preceding the queen's metamorphosis from a nymph, that all its motions are perceptible through the thin covering of wax on which the waved work is founded.
— from New observations on the natural history of bees by François Huber

As he said this, Grasp emptied the contents of his bag upon the table, and forthwith began to fumble amongst a whole heap of parchments, strewing them about in most admired disorder.
— from William Shakespeare as He Lived: An Historical Tale by Henry Curling