45 Note 41 ( return ) [ The Bibliotheque Orientale has given the text of the reign of Malek, (p. 542, 543, 544, 654, 655;) and the Histoire Generale des Huns (tom. iii.
— 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

To all of them they afforded a market for some part either of their rude or manufactured produce, and, consequently, gave some encouragement to the industry and improvement of all.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

And if he have time, amid the press of more urgent matters, he must take measures for the renewal of Mrs. Pyncheon's tombstone, which, the sexton tells him, has fallen on its marble face, and is cracked quite in twain.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Thence to the Temple, to Porter’s chamber, where Cocke met me, and after a stay there some time, they two and I to Pemberton’s chamber, and there did read over the Act of calling people to account, and did discourse all our business of the prizes; and, upon the whole, he do make it plainly appear, that there is no avoiding to give these Commissioners satisfaction in everything they will ask; and that there is fear lest they may find reason to make us refund for all the extraordinary profit made by those bargains; and do make me resolve rather to declare plainly, and, once for all, the truth of the whole, and what my profit hath been, than be forced at last to do it, and in the meantime live in gain, as I must always do: and with this resolution on my part I departed, with some more satisfaction of mind, though with less hopes of profit than I expected.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

To come to a later time, this change of attitude has been ascribed partly to the rise of Mahometan power and the wave of fanaticism which broke over Europe.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

Then I did get Sir W. Coventry (the Duke of York being gone) aside, and there read over my paper, which he liked and corrected, and tells me it will be hard to escape, though the thing be never so fair, to have it voted a miscarriage; but did advise me and my Lord Brouncker, who coming by did join with us, to prepare some members in it, which we shall do.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

This reception of my presents made me rather dread than hope for an interview with Mrs. Barry, and delayed my visit to her for some days further.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

You will go with me to bring up the rest of my party.
— from To Have and to Hold by Mary Johnston

I naturally expected to hear the report of my pistol, and to see the mandarin fall, while the soldiers would rush forward to avenge his death.
— from Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh: The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume II) by Augustus F. Lindley

I could see the hands of my little bedroom clock, and after the longest quarter of an hour I had ever known I turned restlessly on my pillow.
— from Revelations of a Wife The Story of a Honeymoon by Adele Garrison

Apology (An) for the Ministers of State; Or, The Rudiments of Modern Patriotism, 6d.
— from The Annual Catalogue (1737) Or, A New and Compleat List of All The New Books, New Editions of Books, Pamphlets, &c. by William Warner

272-273.—H. [ 53 ] "Conquests, by uniting many nations under one sovereign, have formed great and powerful empires, out of the ruins of many petty states.
— from The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by Gobineau, Arthur, comte de

The Ruff or Machetes pugnax (from Brehm’s ‘Thierteben’).
— from The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. II (1st Edition) by Charles Darwin

“The reason of my presence here was the wish to find a novel to read in bed, Mr Chisholm,” she answered with extraordinary firmness.
— from The Under-Secretary by William Le Queux

I repeat the recommendation of my predecessor in his annual message to Congress in December last in regard to the disposition of the surplus which will probably remain after satisfying the claims of American citizens against China, pursuant to the awards of the commissioners under the act of the 3d of March, 1859.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 5: 1858-1862 by Abraham Lincoln

She says, "The metaphysics of Christian Science, like the rules of mathematics, prove the rule by inversion.
— from McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 by Various