Let us now reverse this operation; let us consider a rudimentary case of thinking, lying between careful examination of evidence and a mere irresponsible stream of fancies.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

Fortune herself, then, does send those other less usual calamities, arising, first, from inanimate nature—hurricanes, storms, shipwrecks, catastrophes, conflagrations; second, from wild beasts—kicks, bites, and attacks.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Residents of this locality, not being burdened with any means of locomotion beyond their own legs, usually came and went by way of the high iron bridge; their legal right of way however was by a neglected thoroughfare that had ambitiously set out to be a street, but having failed of its intention, presently dwindled to a pleasant country road which not far beyond crossed the river by the old wooden bridge below the depot.
— from The Just and the Unjust by Vaughan Kester

The first, which is the natural, essential, real and true one, let us call a spiritual, inner Christendom.
— from Works of Martin Luther, with Introductions and Notes (Volume I) by Martin Luther

To understand how this occurred, let us cast a glance for a moment at two opposite classes of religious thinkers, into which a large portion of the Christian world is divided, and find with which, if with either, Hume's opinions coincide.
— from Life and Correspondence of David Hume, Volume 1 (of 2) by John Hill Burton

Now that the British had retired from Corsica, and France disposed of the maritime resources of Northern Italy, Spain, and Holland, it seemed quite practicable to close the Mediterranean to those "intriguing and enterprising islanders," to hold them at bay in their dull northern seas, to exhaust them by ruinous preparations against expected descents on their southern coasts, on Ireland, and even on Scotland, while Bonaparte's eastern conquests dried up the sources of their wealth in the Orient: "Let us concentrate all our activity on our navy and destroy England.
— from The Life of Napoleon I (Complete) by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose

They 1372.png [Pg 649] brought vast tracts of land under cultivation, and, by their industry and economy, became wealthy and powerful.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 23, April, 1876-September, 1876. A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

The former he took off, locked up carefully, and burnt the first opportunity; the latter he washed; and that the water might not lead to detection, drank it.
— from Pelham — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

The president of course expected Worth to apply his statement to the particular tract of land under consideration and to accept it as establishing beyond question the value of the South Central District.
— from The Winning of Barbara Worth by Harold Bell Wright