But indeed the passing of the Bill depended upon no individual views and upon the action of no Minister.
— from Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02 by Craik, Henry, Sir

The state of our knowledge of uncivilized nations is very apt to make us fall into error on this subject.
— from Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Robert Chambers

The ancient heathen, having deified this personage, imagined, on first seeing a burning mountain, that Tubal-cain, or Vulcan, must have established his forge in the heart of it, and so, not unnaturally, named it Volcano—an appellation which the Island of Hiera retains to the present day.
— from Wonders of Creation: A Descriptive Account of Volcanoes and Their Phenomena by Anonymous

Let us live near God, and so aspiration will come in the place of satisfaction, and the unattained will gleam before us, and beckon us not in vain, and the man that sees what an infinite stretch there is before him will be delivered from the temptations of self-conceit, and will say, 'Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfected, but I follow after.'
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John by Alexander Maclaren

“As the deeds of the said girls not only brought discredit on all of us, but their association gives our married women also an opportunity to contract bad habits, and, as all of our castemen thought it good to give up henceforth the custom of leaving girls unmarried now in vogue, all of us convened a public meeting in the Tenali village, considered carefully the pros and cons , and entered into the agreement herein mentioned.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 2 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

"Dere vas some salfages to be got oudt oof dot prig," mourned Carl, "und now id vill all go py der fishes.
— from Motor Matt's Submarine; or, The Strange Cruise of the Grampus by Stanley R. Matthews