Most of the books and pamphlets published by him were of a theological or religious nature, in other words books which, aside from the pecuniary profit of printing them, he was very much disposed to regard as no books at all.
— from Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume 2 (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce
No railways, few churches; the interior of the country almost uninhabited, reached only through mere tracks or roads, nearly impassable, only traversed by that band of pioneers, the squatters,—a terribly maligned people—who had explored and made the country.
— from The Golden South: Memories of Australian Home Life from 1843 to 1888 by Kathleen Lambert
If they trace him from the first productions of his youth to the last performances of his age, they will find, that as the tyranny of rhyme never imposed on the perspicuity of sense, so a languid sense never wanted to be set off by the harmony of rhyme.
— from The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author by Walter Scott
It therefore behooves us to cherish the Oriental rugs now in our possession.
— from The Practical Book of Oriental Rugs by G. Griffin (George Griffin) Lewis
At last the one remaining night in our tent—over.
— from Two Dianas in Somaliland: The Record of a Shooting Trip by Agnes Herbert
And the introduction of the cinematograph, or the bioscope, or whatever it may be called, is, perhaps, the only real novelty in our latter-day variety-show.
— from A Book About the Theater by Brander Matthews
While five or six glasses of water a day should be taken besides the ordinary fluid taken at meals, the only regulation necessary is of the amount of fluid taken in the evening after the last meal, that is, if more than three hours intervene before retiring for the night.
— from Psychotherapy Including the History of the Use of Mental Influence, Directly and Indirectly, in Healing and the Principles for the Application of Energies Derived from the Mind to the Treatment of Disease by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
But the observer receives no impression of moral disorder.
— from Roving East and Roving West by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
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