So in this strife of honour, the three of them took the fortress, and when they had once rushed in, not a stone more was hurled from overhead.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

The House of Representatives is named by the people, the Senate by the legislators of each State; the former is directly elected, the latter is elected by an elected body; the term for which the representatives are chosen is only two years, that of the senators is six.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

One which, if we may judge from the frequency of its repetition, seems most to be relied on, is, that the House of Representatives is not sufficiently numerous for the reception of all the different classes of citizens, in order to combine the interests and feelings of every part of the community, and to produce a due sympathy between the representative body and its constituents.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

And although the House of Representatives is not immediately to participate in foreign negotiations and arrangements, yet from the necessary connection between the several branches of public affairs, those particular branches will frequently deserve attention in the ordinary course of legislation, and will sometimes demand particular legislative sanction and co-operation.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

A Message was received from the President of the United States , as follows: Gentlemen of the House of Representatives : I now transmit a report from the Secretary of State, with the information requested in your resolutions of the seventeenth instant.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 2 (of 16) by United States. Congress

The higher Oriental religions include no belief whatever in the immortality of the soul; it is not found in Buddhism, the religion that dominates [Pg 195] thirty per cent.
— from The Riddle of the Universe at the close of the nineteenth century by Ernst Haeckel

I might likewise observe, that in all political writings there is something that grates upon the mind of the most candid reader, in opinions which are not conformable to his own way of thinking; and that the harshness of reasoning is not a little softned and smoothed by the infusions of mirth and pleasantry.
— from Essay upon Wit by Blackmore, Richard, Sir

Thus we learn that firm consolidation of rock-making materials is not always a sign of great antiquity, and that hardness of rock is not always essential to the preservation of imbedded plants and animals.
— from Fossils: A Story of the Rocks and Their Record of Prehistoric Life by Harvey C. Markman

The hour of retribution is near.
— from Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea by Tom Bevan

To the House of Representatives : In response to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 17th of March last, requesting the Secretary of State "to communicate to the House of Representatives, if not incompatible with the public interest, copies of recent correspondence and dispatches between the Secretary of State and the minister of the United States at The Hague touching the subject of taxation on petroleum in Holland and in the Dutch colonies, and that of the export therefrom of leaf tobacco to the United States," with reference to my message to the House of Representatives of the 14th ultimo
— from A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 3: Grover Cleveland, First Term by Grover Cleveland

Now, it must be admitted [280] that the happy change is due solely to the attention to which the country was subjected by reason of its flooding; and it is not the less true because it is paradoxical that the proposed submersion of certain temples has saved all the Lower Nubian monuments from rapid destruction at the hands of robbers, ignorant natives, and barbarous European visitors.
— from The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology by Arthur E. P. Brome (Arthur Edward Pearse Brome) Weigall

The house of representatives is named by the people, the senate by the legislators of each state; the former is directly elected; the latter is elected by an elected body; the term for which the representatives are chosen is only two years, that of the senators is six.
— from American Institutions and Their Influence by Alexis de Tocqueville

“As, therefore, it is perfectly clear to my understanding that the assent of the house of representatives is not necessary to the validity of a treaty; as the treaty with Great Britain exhibits, in itself, all the objects requiring legislative provision, and on these the papers called for can throw no light; and as it is essential to the due administration of the government that the boundaries fixed by the constitution between the different departments should be preserved, a just regard to the constitution and to the duty of my office, under all the circumstances of this case, forbids a compliance with your request.
— from Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. by Benson John Lossing

Though it was then night many set off at once, and gathering strength as they went, drew up the next morning, thirty-seven strong, before the house of Revenue Inspector Neville, near Pittsburgh.
— from Americana Ebrietatis The Favorite Tipple of our Forefathers and the Laws and Customs Relating Thereto by Hewson L. (Hewson Lindsley) Peeke