Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school; and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be us'd, and, contrary to the King, his crown, and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The extent and duration of this spiritual conspiracy seemed to render it everyday more deserving of his animadversion.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

From the morning to the evening, careless of the sun, or of the rain, the spectators, who sometimes amounted to the number of four hundred thousand, remained in eager attention; their eyes fixed on the horses and charioteers, their minds agitated with hope and fear, for the success of the colors which they espoused: and the happiness of Rome appeared to hang on the event of a race.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

If you received it electronically, such person may choose to alternatively give you a second opportunity to receive it electronically.
— from The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

Yule was very happy with Mr. Hamilton and his kind wife, but on his tutor's removal to Cambridge other arrangements became necessary, and in 1835 he was transferred to the care of the Rev. James Challis, rector of Papworth St. Everard, a place which "had little to recommend it except a dulness which made reading almost a necessity.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

No family may have less than ten and more than sixteen persons in it, but there can be no determined number for the children under age; this rule is easily observed by removing some of the children of a more fruitful couple to any other family that does not abound so much in them.
— from Utopia by More, Thomas, Saint

My honor is interested, and, to mention a great secret, the reward is enormous.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

When a new serpent grove has to be created, or if it is found necessary to remove a grove from one place to another, the ritual is entirely in the hands of these people.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

As two tall oaks, before the wall they rise; Their roots in earth, their heads amidst the skies: Whose spreading arms with leafy honours crown'd, Forbid the tempest, and protect the ground; [pg 221] High on the hills appears their stately form, And their deep roots for ever brave the storm.
— from The Iliad by Homer

It was at first believed that those Canary birds bred in the Canary Islands were much better singers than those reared in Europe; but this at present is doubted 62 .
— from A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 1 (of 2) by Johann Beckmann

[Pg xiii] in a successful pursuit of knowledge , as of wealth ; which is a sentiment that entirely cuts off all boasting with respect to ourselves, and all envy and jealousy with respect to others; and disposes us mutually to rejoice in every new light that we receive, through whose hands soever it be conveyed to us.
— from Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air by Joseph Priestley

One is reminded of Goethe's Tasso, impulsively offering his friendship to a cooler man and getting the reply: In Einem Augenblicke forderst du Was wohlbedächtig nur die Zeit gewährt.[63]
— from The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Calvin Thomas

About noon, we left Edgecome, and drove two miles farther, to Horton--an estate owned by Foster Clarke, Esq., an attorney for twenty-two estates, who is now temporarily residing in England.
— from The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society

When Timothy quitted the room, I explained our intentions to Harcourt.
— from Japhet in Search of a Father by Frederick Marryat

The fore-wings are bluish-grey, speckled and dappled with blackish-brown ; there is a pale transverse line near the base, partially edged with black; the orbicular is round, containing a blackish dot in the middle; the reniform is elongate-oval, including a {28} dark spot in its lower portion; the space surrounding the stigmata is clouded with dark blackish-brown; there is a terminal series of small blackish crescentic marks, and the cilia are dark grey.
— from New Zealand Moths and Butterflies (Macro-Lepidoptera) by G. V. (George Vernon) Hudson

p. 190 Chapter XIV THE ‘ATHENÆUM’ As the first review which Mr. Watts-Dunton contributed to the ‘Athenæum’ has been so often discussed, and as it is as characteristic as any other of his style, I have determined to reprint it entire.
— from Theodore Watts-Dunton: Poet, Novelist, Critic by James Douglas