And after it goeth out under an high hill, that men clepe Alothe, that is between Ind and Ethiopia the mountance of five months’ journeys from the entry of Ethiopia; and after it environeth all Ethiopia and Mauritania, and goeth all along from the land of Egypt unto the city of Alexandria to the end of Egypt, and there it falleth into the sea.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

In Isaiah's "famous prophecy" so-called, the phrase "Unto us a child is born" (Isa. ix. 6), the context clearly shows, refers to the prophet's own child, and the past tense, "is born," is an evidence the child was then born.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

On all the other sides it has been fortified either with lofty walls or steep and precipitous hills 1393 , but so it is, that its buildings, increasing and extending beyond all bounds, have now united many other cities to it 1394 .
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

] Note 99 ( return ) [ Without any previous knowledge of Tzetzes or Anthemius, the immortal Buffon imagined and executed a set of burning-glasses, with which he could inflame planks at the distance of 200 feet, (Supplement a l'Hist.
— 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

When walking or running, its long tail is borne in an erect position, and often assumes a variety of grotesque positions.
— from A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 2 of 3 by Robert Ridgway

The greatest standing evil from which the existing government suffered, was the inequality between income and expenditure; and if the lavish profusion of the King was partly responsible for this, yet there were also many other reasons for it.
— from A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) by Leopold von Ranke

Standing alone, the above exposition conveys an idea that is both inadequate and erroneous.
— from The Principles of Biology, Volume 1 (of 2) by Herbert Spencer

Now, the old gleaners used to tie up their bundles in a clever manner, doubling the straw in so that it bound itself and enabled them to carry a larger quantity.
— from Wild Life in a Southern County by Richard Jefferies

The times occupied in thoroughly learning the trick of the box by those who were successful are plotted in a series of curves, the essential feature of which is the graphic expression of a gradual diminution in the time interval between imprisonment and escape in successive trials.
— from Animal Behaviour by C. Lloyd (Conwy Lloyd) Morgan

These two principles—abhorring the evil and cleaving to the good—are clearly presented in Psalm 15, 4: "In whose eyes a reprobate is despised, but who honoreth them that fear Jehovah"—in other words, "Who cleaves to the good, even though it be in an enemy; and hates the evil, even though in a friend."
— from Epistle Sermons, Vol. 2: Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost by Martin Luther

Now in efficient causes it is not possible to go on to infinity, because in all efficient causes following in order, the first is the cause of the intermediate cause, and the intermediate is the cause of the ultimate cause, whether the intermediate cause be several, or only one.
— from Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint