A good dancer never feels this embarrassment, consequently he never appears aware of the existence of his feet, and carries his hands and arms gracefully.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

[ 177 ] The East Cherokee had never ceased to contend for a participation in the rights and privileges accruing to the western Nation under treaties with the Government.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Hast thou ever considered his nature?
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

And he sang how first of all Ophion and Eurynome, daughter of Ocean, held the sway of snowy Olympus, and how through strength of arm one yielded his prerogative to Cronos and the other to Rhea, and how they fell into the waves of Ocean; but the other two meanwhile ruled over the blessed Titan-gods, while Zeus, still a child and with the thoughts of a child, dwelt in the Dictaean cave; and the earthborn Cyclopes had not yet armed him with the bolt, with thunder and lightning; for these things give renown to Zeus.
— from The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius

Human actions, therefore, either can have no moral turpitude at all, as proceeding from so good a cause; or if they have any turpitude, they must involve our Creator in the same guilt, while he is acknowledged to be their ultimate cause and author.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

The majority, well on towards the latter part of the eighteenth century, had no motto added, and many patents are still issued without such an addition.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

When the early Christians had need of an adroit, contentious, pugnacious and maliciously subtle theologian to tackle other theologians, they created a “god” that met that need, just as they put into his mouth without hesitation certain ideas that were necessary to them but that were utterly at odds with the Gospels—“the second coming,” “the last judgment,” all sorts of expectations and promises, current at the time.—
— from The Antichrist by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

What makes his Character the pleasanter is, that he is a professed Deluder of Women; and because the empty Coxcomb has no Regard to any thing that is of it self Sacred and Inviolable, I have heard an unmarried Lady of Fortune say, It is pity so fine a Gentleman as Vocifer is so great an Atheist.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Five other Brethren were afterwards added, all Germans except I.A., and these eight constituted his new building called Sancti Spiritus.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

With the system, a student nurtured in ideas of the eighteenth century, had nothing to do, and made not the least presence of meddling; but nothing forbade him to study, and he noticed to his astonishment that this capitalistic scheme of combining governments, like railways or furnaces, was in effect precisely the socialist scheme of Jaurès and Bebel.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

One Phœnician city, the youngest of the great Phœnician cities, had risen to a place in the world and the world’s history such as the cities of the elder Canaan had never reached.
— from The Chief Periods of European History Six lectures read in the University of Oxford in Trinity term, 1885 by Edward A. (Edward Augustus) Freeman

The Eleventh Corps had not the slightest idea that it was about to be attacked.
— from Harper's Round Table, May 21, 1895 by Various

That education, by which we mean the expansion of mind which results from it, is as essential to the composer as to the professor of any other liberal art or science, will not be disputed by those who give the matter anything like serious consideration: that in most cases the English composer has not the advantages which are to be derived from it, few will be hardy enough to deny.
— from The Harmonicon. Part the First by Various

The early comers had no fear of the natives, and danger there was none.
— from The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 3, March, 1886 by Various

The strength of the English character has not been developed, as is claimed by some, by the whipping done in English schools and homes.
— from Dickens As an Educator by James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes

It is to be noted, however, that all three of the faces are of the same type, even though their essential characteristic has not yet been determined.
— from An Introduction to the Study of the Maya Hieroglyphs by Sylvanus Griswold Morley

On the European continent his name is constantly mentioned together with those of Ibsen and Björnson.
— from Plays by August Strindberg, First Series by August Strindberg

The urge for this youthful quest was accompanied by a purity of heart and a modesty that even caused his nurses to smile—yes, we can laugh now when we hear that this boy would only change his underclothing in the dark!
— from The Road to Damascus, a Trilogy by August Strindberg

All this while 'er ladyship, under the impression that the boy Albert was devoted to 'er cause, has no doubt been placing a misguided confidence in 'im . . .
— from A Damsel in Distress by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

The exertions made by the Commander-in-chief through the winter to raise a powerful army for the ensuing campaign, had not been successful.
— from The Life of George Washington, Vol. 2 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by John Marshall