On the one side, there is good reason to believe that slight changes in the conditions of life give vigour and fertility to all organic beings.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

The one lifts up its head in its own glory; the other says to its God, "Thou art my glory, and the lifter up of mine head."
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

The one delights in its own strength, represented in the persons of its rulers; the other says to its God, "I will love Thee, O Lord, my strength."
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Deus Deus tuus ego sum na les ofer onsegdnisse thine ic dregu the onsegdnisse soth thine in gesihthe minre sind aa 8.
— from Anglo-Saxon Literature by John Earle

The buildings in the city are generally very handsome, and laid out in very regular streets, having canals running through most of them, with trees planted on each side, so that Batavia may justly be called a fine city: But the sight is the only sense that is gratified here, for the canals smell very offensively when the tide is low, and breed vast swarms of muskitoes, which are more troublesome here than in any place I was ever in.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 11 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

If they are all debas'd, and willing slaves, The young but breathing to grow grey in bondage, And the old sinking to ignoble graves, Of such a race no matter who is king.
— from The Grecian Daughter by Arthur Murphy

When I visited Vesuvius, in November, 1828, I was prevented from descending into the crater by the constant ejections then thrown out; so that I got sight of three only of the dikes; but Signor Monticelli had previously had drawings made of the whole, which he showed me.
— from Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

Most, or perhaps all, of the secondary characters, which appertain to one sex, lie dormant in the other sex; that is, gemmules capable of development into the secondary male sexual characters are included within the female; and conversely female characters in the male: we have evidence of this in certain masculine characters, both corporeal and mental, appearing in the female, when her ovaria are diseased or when they fail to act from old age.
— from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 by Charles Darwin

I will hand that in as the official report, and with it the other, saying that it gives further details of the affair.
— from With Moore at Corunna by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

As head of his particular woolen concern, Johnson Boller could well spend the whole morning away from the office, so that it gained him the chance of hammering the boy to a jelly and ousting him from Johnson Boller's temporary home.
— from In and Out by Edgar Franklin