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

Those who accept all distinctions as due to external causes have no occasion to employ any deep mental subtlety in classifying their acquaintances.
— from The Cow Puncher by Robert J. C. Stead

Thus one restriction after another was removed, so that at last the episcopal church has nothing of her exclusive privileges left beyond the rank and title of a state church, and the undiminished possession of all her ancient property, from which her prelates draw princely revenues.
— from Church History, Volume 3 (of 3) by J. H. (Johann Heinrich) Kurtz

Ex præparatione quam exhibuimus figurâ trigesimasextâ, eruitur columna hæc nitida Ordinis Etrusci, opticè imminuta per latitudines & altitudines partium singularum; quæ accipiuntur ope duorum circinorum, ut sæpiùs dictum est.
— from Rules and Examples of Perspective proper for Painters and Architects, etc. In English and Latin: Containing a most easie and expeditious method to delineate in perspective all designs relating to architecture by Andrea Pozzo

In the tremendous struggle that followed, it seemed for a moment as if the tradition of generations might be snapped, as if the blind tenacity of the reactionaries and the determined fury of their enemies could have no other issue than revolution.
— from Queen Victoria by Lytton Strachey

She pulled herself together--what the effort cost her no one but herself knew--and came at once to the gist of the thing.
— from A Traitor in London by Fergus Hume

The tables of rosewood and marble, and the expensive curtains had none of them escaped her notice, and in a mood which more common furniture would never have produced Madam Conway arose to meet Mrs. Warner, who received her politely, and then waited to hear her errand.
— from Maggie Miller: The Story of Old Hagar's Secret by Mary Jane Holmes

The hides and skins are never dried in the immediate vicinity of their lodges, but at a great distance, where the effluvia can hurt no one.
— from The Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet in California, Sonora, and Western Texas by Frederick Marryat

In fact, from the middle of 1614 till the close of the following year, Turnbull's correspondence is wholly devoted to these points, so much so, that the English cabinet had not only intelligence of Tyrone's designs, but ample information concerning all those who were suspected of countenancing them.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 07, April 1868 to September, 1868 by Various