The original patentees of lots six, seven, eight and nine, on the west side of the street just here, were four brothers, Joseph, Duke, Hiram and John, Kendrick, respectively.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

The price, indeed, was very small, and instead of thirty years purchase, the ordinary price of land in the present times, it amounted to little more than the expense of the different equipments which made the first discovery, reconnoitered the coast, and took a fictitious possession of the country.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

This Decency of Behaviour is generally transgressed among all Orders of Men; nay, the very Women, tho' themselves created as it were for Ornament, are often very much mistaken in this ornamental Part of Life.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

The Dress of those natives differ but little from those on the Koskoskia and Lewis's rivers, except the women who dress verry different in as much as those above ware long leather Shirts which highly ornimented with heeds Shells &c. &c. and those on the main Columbia river only ware a truss or pece of leather tied around them at their hips and drawn tite between ther legs and fastened before So as barly to hide those parts which are So Sacredly hid & Scured by our women.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

He would like to fall back upon the other pleasures of life, and finds them annihilated.
— from On Love by Stendhal

Human food seems to be the only produce of land, which always and necessarily affords some rent to the landlord.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

The original possessor of Lot No.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

This is in harmony with the general proposition that the ordinary pursuits of life, forming the greater per cent of the industrial pursuits, are and ought to be free and open to all, subject only to such general regulations, applying equally to all, as the general good may demand.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

It was too cold to sit outside, and we took our places on leather benches within.
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

[36] One of the oldest parts of London, north of St. Paul's Cathedral, called "Little Britain" because the Dukes of Brittany used to live there.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

The property involved, together with the exploits of daring and feats of skill to be performed in breaking that "jam," invest the whole with a degree of interest not common to the ordinary pursuits of life, and but little realized by many who are even familiar with the terms lumber and river-driving .
— from Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick by John S. Springer

The reader will see it in the old print of London by Aggas.
— from The Town: Its Memorable Characters and Events by Leigh Hunt

But, when the Spaniards, quitting the shelter of their mountains, descended into the open plains of Leon and Castile, they found themselves exposed to the predatory incursions of the Arab cavalry, who, sweeping over the face of the country, carried off in a single foray the hard-earned produce of a summer's toil.
— from The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1 by William Hickling Prescott

A deputation from the principal theatres of Paris offered Latude free admission to all performances, “so that he might go often and forget the days of his mourning.”
— from Legends of the Bastille by Frantz Funck-Brentano

Not only is the present humiliation of the nobility in sharp contrast to their former elevation of rank, and therefore their sufferings the more acute, but it is also to be observed that their old position of leadership [106] has been completely reversed.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Song of Solomon and the Lamentations of Jeremiah by Walter F. (Walter Frederic) Adeney

It is for this reason that I have called the oxidation product of luciferin oxyluciferin .
— from The Nature of Animal Light by E. Newton (Edmund Newton) Harvey

It is not difficult to understand how these rough townsmen, bred of sturdy mountaineers, and inheriting no tradition of fine culture, must have been affected when they went across the sea to Cumæ or to Pæstum, saw the austere glory of the temples rising near the shore, talked with the men whose brains schemed out that splendour and whose hands learnt how to fashion it, craftsmen who wrought nothing destitute of loveliness, whose coins were as noble as their temples, whose hearts must have been afire to spread more widely their own perception of line and form, and who were doubtless no less eager to teach than the Pompeiians were to learn.
— from Naples, Past and Present by Arthur H. (Arthur Hamilton) Norway

In the days of the old Parlement, of Louis XIII.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Perhaps the worst defect in the Occidental philosophy of life is the failure to learn this control.
— from How to Live: Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science by Irving Fisher