Then the apostle subjoins a notable difference between these two men, saying, "The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord from heaven.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

—It must be possible to trace every error to such a conclusion, drawn from a major premise which is often only falsely generalised, hypothetical, and founded on the assumption that some particular cause is that of a certain effect.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

I think everyone expected to see a man emerge—possibly something a little unlike us terrestrial men, but in all essentials a man.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Up, and all the morning at the Exchequer endeavouring to strike tallys for money for Tangier, and mightily vexed to see how people attend there, some out of towne, and others drowsy, and to others it was late, so that the King’s business suffers ten times more than all their service is worth.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord from heaven.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

hê te tês gastros thesis engys, hôs epi synodontos te kai channês, ouden thaumaston, hotan hikanôs peinasanta diôkê ti tôn mikroterôn zôôn, eit' êdê plêsion ê tou syllabein, anatrechein epeigousês tês epithymias eis to stoma tên gastera.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

You have even debased the noblest and most beneficial art that ever engaged the study of mankind, which cannot be too much cultivated, and too little restrained, in seeking to limit the practice of it to a set of narrow-minded, illiberal wretches, who, like the lowest handicraftsmen, claim the exclusive privileges of a corporation.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

But still it really, and in the end, encourages that species of industry which it means to promote.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

After the cuts, while working as hard as I could to earn enough to support my family, I have been obliged to sit down in the middle of the forenoon to rest because I had not had enough food to enable me to do such hard work and there were hundreds worse off than I. If rents had been reduced I believe there would have been no strike.
— from The Pullman Boycott: A Complete History of the R.R. Strike by W. F. Burns

But, same time, the two towns looked out of the corners of their eyes enough to set quite a few things going for each other unconscious: Red Barns got a new depot, and Friendship Village instantly petitioned for one.
— from Neighborhood Stories by Zona Gale

And to mark their refusal of anything we asked from them, they emphatically employed the same British monosyllable.
— from Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793. Vol. II by Alexander Mackenzie

When a girl has undergone the admission ceremony she has free entry into the emone —except that she must not sleep there—until she formally receives her perineal band, upon which her permission to enter the emone ceases.
— from The Mafulu: Mountain People of British New Guinea by Robert Wood Williamson

Both men lived whilst in prison on bread and water, refusing to eat either the soup or meat allowed to the prisoners.
— from Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume 1 (of 2) Comprising Their Life and Work as Recorded in Their Diaries, from 1812 to 1883 by Montefiore, Judith Cohen, Lady

[3] This is the Indian legend of El Dorado , which is really El Hombre Dorado , or the gilded man, and it was this story which led so many of the early explorers to search for " El Dorado ."
— from Our Little Brazilian Cousin by Mary F. Nixon-Roulet

The sentences of the Koran, which are written over a lofty arch, under which is the entrance, exceed the size of two feet, and are delineated on the same beautiful enamel.
— from Travels Into Bokhara (Volume 1 of 3) Being the Account of A Journey from India to Cabool, Tartary, and Persia; Also, Narrative of a Voyage on the Indus, From the Sea to Lahore, With Presents From the King of Great Britain; Performed Under the Orders of the Supreme Government of India, in the Years 1831, 1832, and 1833 by Burnes, Alexander, Sir

less food, computed by cost, and increased their strength-endurance ability by something more than 100 per cent., with the added felicity of feeling unusually fit all of the time, entirely escaping the slack or sick spells they had been accustomed to, and improving greatly in their general studentability, that is: power of concentration, memory, mental comfort, profundity of sleep, etc.
— from Fletcherism: What It Is; Or, How I Became Young at Sixty by Horace Fletcher