Another advantage I gained in my new master was, he made no pretensions to, or profession of, religion; and this, in my opinion, was truly a great advantage.
— from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass

He talketh of prayer, of repentance, of faith, and of the new birth; but he knows but only to talk of them.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come Delivered under the similitude of a dream, by John Bunyan by John Bunyan

But upon examining to which of them any Individual they met with belonged, they found each of them had a Right to him; for that, contrary to what they had seen in their old Places of Residence, there was no Person so Vicious who had not some Good in him, nor any Person so Virtuous who had not in him some Evil.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

As to our project of running away, she did not think it would be very difficult to carry it into execution, but that it would be better to wait until she knew the locality better.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

These elevations, built by the aborigines, hundreds of years ago, are the only points of refuge for miles.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

Waking or rest he used indiscriminately, by night or by day.—These great Virtues were balanced by great Vices; inhuman cruelty; perfidy more than punic; no truth, no faith, no regard to oaths, promises, or religion.
— from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume

The one point of resemblance between the two authors is simply in the tremendous magnitude of their genius.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The truth is, if poetry gives us a noble assemblage of Page 280 words corresponding to many noble ideas, which are connected by circumstances of time or place, or related to each other as cause and effect, or associated in any natural way, they may be moulded together in any form, and perfectly answer their end.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Besides, if you regard him very closely, and time him with your watch, you will find that when unmolested, there is an undeviating rhyme between the periods of his jets and the ordinary periods of respiration.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

For the only piece of real wisdom is to know that idea, which by itself will govern everything on every occasion.”
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

Besides the places which I have described in the town, the metowafs accompany the hadjys to all the other places of resort in the sacred district, and are ready to perform every kind of service in the city.
— from Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred by John Lewis Burckhardt

One can admit this frankly without compromising, because without touching, the other and deeper truth which is so interesting and indeed so vital alike in the opening pages of revelation and in its consummation in the Atonement.
— from The Atonement and the Modern Mind by James Denney

[132] The outside parts of roast meat must be avoided, even when meat is allowed once a day.
— from Dietetics for Nurses by Fairfax T. (Fairfax Throckmorton) Proudfit

After a season of pleasant conversation, the servants were assembled, the chapter of God's word was solemnly read, the hymn chanted, the prayer of praise and thanksgiving offered, and we were conducted to our place of repose.
— from Wau-Bun: The Early Day in the Northwest by Kinzie, John H., Mrs.

According to them, their old policy of refusing all offers of alliance was a policy of moderation.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

On the contrary they were entirely out of sympathy with the Quakers, except in the one point of religious liberty; and the Quakers were certainly out of sympathy with them.
— from The Quaker Colonies: A Chronicle of the Proprietors of the Delaware by Sydney George Fisher

It would be without doubt in the highest degree edifying in the present connection, were the sensations of some educated adult of average sensitiveness, who had submitted to the operation, placed on record; together with a statement of the time
— from The Barbarity of Circumcision as a Remedy for Congenital Abnormality by Herbert Snow

Stain these yellow sands Wine-red with spillings of your wreathèd bowls, And let the orgied priests of revel reign.— Caligula, be crowned by Setebos!
— from Caliban by the Yellow Sands: A Community Masque of the Art of the Theatre by Percy MacKaye

Nex’ minute he’d a’ bin among ’em, but the ’ole parcel o’ rats, maybe one hundred, guv another mighty shuv, and ’fore I could start up to prevent it that bar’l gave a list over, and then started.
— from Tales from the Veld by Ernest Glanville

Other babies under the required age (4 years), decked out in all sorts of colors, and with dresses made universally in most execrably bad taste, were standing on some of the other platforms, or running about amongst the crowd, daubing themselves and those indiscreet and enthusiastic persons who attempted to handle them, with half-dissolved candy, and sticky gingerbread.
— from Doesticks: What He Says by Q. K. Philander Doesticks