Mr. Higgins remarks that the mother was still held to be a virgin, even after she had given birth to other children besides the deity-begotten bantling, which furnishes another striking parallel to the history of Mary, as she was still called a virgin after she had given birth to Jesus and his brothers James and John.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

The honest, open, naked truth: Tell him o' mine an' Scotland's drouth, His servants humble:
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

Schopenhauer, among others, had a great admiration for his worldly philosophy, and translated his Oraculo manual —a system of rules for the conduct of life—into German.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by Arthur Schopenhauer

I promise things that are great and eternal, and the hearts of mortals are slow to stir.
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas

"Yes, I'm ready," she said, taking sixpence from the heap of money and sliding the rest back into the purse, which she laid on the table.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

The hearts of men are saddened and maddened.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

At the hour of midnight, as she related the story many years afterwards, she was surprised by the appearance of the archbishop in a loose undress, who, advancing with hasty steps, conjured her to afford him the protection which he had been directed by a celestial vision to seek under her hospitable roof.
— 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

No, my dear Pamela, said he; the pleasure of your company will be greater than the honour of mine; and so say no more on that head.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

It says: "This brief article is the record of more than sport and fashion, it is a phenomenon in the history of man and so should be hoarded among the best samples of human memory, till memory shall be no more.
— from Chess History and Reminiscences by H. E. (Henry Edward) Bird

From that time I have looked upon the holding of men as slaves as a great wickedness.
— from Margaret Smith's Journal Part 1 from Volume V of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier

It shall come to pass in the latter days That the mountain of Jehovah's house shall be established at the head of mountains, And shall be exalted above the hills, And all nations shall flow unto it.
— from Religion and the War by Yale University. Divinity School

But in science, as elsewhere, irony is not argument, and it soon had to be acknowledged that the hypothesis of M. Arrhenius showed itself singularly fertile and had to be regarded, at all events, as a very expressive image, if not, indeed, entirely in conformity with reality.
— from The New Physics and Its Evolution by Lucien Poincaré

Some such pleasure must be theirs who have thrown their thoughts into the hearts of men, and seen them spread in waves of feeling, whose sphere time widens through the world.
— from The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell

Here our Lord again finds himself among the haunts of men, and, since wherever there was a town population Pharisees were to be found, these “came forth, and began to question with him, seeking of him a Sign from heaven, tempting him.”
— from Pastor Pastorum; Or, The Schooling of the Apostles by Our Lord by Henry Latham

Some come to the colony in the hope of making a speedy fortune, that they may go home again and bless the old folks with their good fortune.
— from Missing Friends Being the Adventures of a Danish Emigrant in Queensland (1871-1880) by Thorvald Peter Ludwig Weitemeyer

During the hours of moonlight, a small band of Musgrave niggers crept round the camp and remained in hiding.
— from In the Musgrave Ranges by Conrad H. (Conrad Harvey) Sayce

There may be some mistake about a doctrine which makes the wicked, when a majority, the mouthpiece of God against the virtuous, but the hopes of mankind are staked on it; and if the weak in faith sometimes quail when they see humanity floating in a shoreless ocean, on this plank, which experience and religion long since condemned as rotten, mistake or not, men have thus far floated better by its aid, than the popes ever did with their prettier principle; so that it will be a long time yet before society repents.
— from Democracy, an American novel by Henry Adams