Thus it is with these matters: but in the region to the West of lake Tritonis the Libyans cease to be nomads, and they do not practise the same customs, nor do to their children anything like that which the nomads are wont to do; for the nomad Libyans, whether all of them I cannot say for certain, but many of them, do as follows:—when their children are four years old, they burn with a greasy piece of sheep's wool the veins in the crowns of their heads, and some of them burn the veins of the temples, so that for all their lives to come the cold humour may not run down from their heads and do them hurt: and for this reason it is (they say) that they are so healthy; for the Libyans are in truth the most healthy of all races concerning which we have knowledge, whether for this reason or not I cannot say for certain, but the most healthy they certainly are: and if, when they burn the children, a convulsion comes on, they have found out a remedy for this; for they pour upon them the water of a he-goat and so save them.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

Nurture supplies the stimulus for the expression of the moral inheritance, and how far the inheritance can express itself is limited by the nurture-stimuli available just as surely as the result of nurture is conditioned by the hereditarily determined nature on which it operates.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

“It is supposed to reach the Juba,” replied Guy, “but whether near the mouth of that river or not I cannot say.”
— from The River of Darkness; Or, Under Africa by William Murray Graydon

A pulley over the vat to draw out the rod or net is convenient.
— from Vegetable Dyes: Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer by Ethel Mairet

Whether it ejects the rat or not I cannot say, but I should think that it is quite capable of doing so.
— from The Common Objects of the Country by J. G. (John George) Wood

Whether it was the rum or not I cannot say, but in twenty minutes' time Bungle was able to bring up the rear guard with Kep.
— from The Sauciest Boy in the Service: A Story of Pluck and Perseverance by Gordon Stables

The ruin of nature is complete—of nature in all its phases and in all its stages.
— from Elijah the Tishbite. Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, vol. V by Charles Henry Mackintosh

If we compare the Ten Years' Exile with the Considerations on the French Revolution, it will perhaps be found that the reign of Napoleon is criticized in the first of these works with greater severity than in the other, and that he is there attacked with an eloquence not always exempt from bitterness.
— from Ten Years' Exile Memoirs of That Interesting Period of the Life of the Baroness De Stael-Holstein, Written by Herself, during the Years 1810, 1811, 1812, and 1813, and Now First Published from the Original Manuscript, by Her Son. by Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine) Staël

In 1720, [8] it was on the river Orkhon, near its confluence with the Selenga, some distance north of the present Urga.
— from The Siberian Overland Route from Peking to Petersburg, Through the Deserts and Steppes of Mongolia, Tartary, &c. by Alexander Michie

I, 20, 2, Ars. poet. 345); Dorus, the Phillip Reclam junior of ancient times, who in the reign of Nero introduced cheap popular editions of Livy and Cicero, (Sen. Benef. VII, 61) and Martial’s publisher, the Tryphon mentioned in this story. (Mart.
— from Quintus Claudius: A Romance of Imperial Rome. Volume 1 by Ernst Eckstein

Why is it that Scotland, when the roll of nations is called, can stand up and proudly answer "here"?
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

As far as can be gathered, the art of wire-drawing was not practised till the fourteenth century, at which time Rudolph of Nuremberg is credited with its discovery.
— from Armour & Weapons by Charles John Ffoulkes