Single watch-towers were changed into spacious citadels; vacant walls, which the engineers contracted or enlarged according to the nature of the ground, were filled with colonies or garrisons; a strong fortress defended the ruins of Trajan's bridge, and several military stations affected to spread beyond the Danube the pride of the Roman name.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Remedies of the sort which Bacon deemed worthy of his attention are still in vogue in the eastern counties of England.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

The allies did not follow him there, but retired, apparently in full security, to Southwold Bay, on the east coast of England, some ninety miles north of the mouth of the Thames.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

You have attached big words to every action, and wearisome duties to every corner of existence; you believe in equality and eternal passion.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

On the one hand they give warning not boundlessly to extend cognition of experience, as if nothing but world 40 remained for us to cognise, and yet, on the other hand, not to transgress the bounds of experience, and to think of judging about things beyond them, as things in themselves.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

The lesson of Garibaldi, as education, seemed to teach the extreme complexity of extreme simplicity; but one could have learned this from a glow-worm.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

[D] The equal claim of everybody to happiness in the estimation of the moralist and the legislator, involves an equal claim to all the means of happiness, except in so far as the inevitable conditions of human life, and the general interest, in which that of every individual is included, set limits to the maxim; and those limits ought to be strictly construed.
— from Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill

Behold, O Lord God, yea, behold patiently as Thou art wont how carefully the sons of men observe the covenanted rules of letters and syllables received from those who spake before them, neglecting the eternal covenant of everlasting salvation received from Thee.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

The first day's journey was through the green fields and bright flowers that stretched about the Emerald City on every side.
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

The majority report was opposed by the three minority members, the Archbishop of York, Sir William Anson, and Sir Lewis Dibdin, representing the Established Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church.
— from A Short History of Women's Rights From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With Additions. by Eugene A. (Eugene Arthur) Hecker

What strikes us foreigners is the evident indifference to the Council and its acts manifested by the inhabitants of the eternal city of every class.
— from Letters From Rome on the Council by Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger

In the enlarging circle of enthusiasts, Gabriel Astier and Isabella Vincent made themselves first conspicuous.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 by Various

There never has been a religion of the state (the few years of the Parliament only excepted) but that of the Episcopal Church of England : the Episcopal Church of England, before the Reformation, connected with the see of Rome; since then, disconnected, and protesting against some of her doctrines, and against the whole of her authority, as binding in our national church: nor did the fundamental laws of this kingdom (in Ireland it has been the same) ever know, at any period, any other church as an object of establishment ,—or, in that light, any other Protestant religion.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

I am one of the exiled children of Eve.
— from Mater Christi: Meditations on Our Lady by Mother St. Paul

The earnest Catholics of every country knew his condition and poured in contributions for this purpose.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 10, October, 1869 to March, 1870 by Various

On Thursday, in conspicuous type, black faced and double-leaded, there appeared on the front page and again at the top of the editorial column of every daily paper, morning and evening, in the United States, and in every weekly and every monthly
— from The Thunders of Silence by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

The entrenchment, consisting of earth-parapet and a surrounding trench, was being strengthened by its garrison of twenty-five Armed Constabulary, and the work was not quite finished when the Maori attack was delivered.
— from The adventures of Kimble Bent: A story of wild life in the New Zealand bush by James Cowan