[Note 85: Owing to the unstable nature of fame the names of some of the above literary worthies necessitate reference at this period in the nineteenth century.
— from Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

After he had subdued them he made a law that every man might be of what religion he pleased, and might endeavour to draw others to it by the force of argument and by amicable and modest ways, but without bitterness against those of other opinions; but that he ought to use no other force but that of persuasion, and was neither to mix with it reproaches nor violence; and such as did otherwise were to be condemned to banishment or slavery.
— from Utopia by More, Thomas, Saint

115 Our wives and sisters, though they should escape the violation of hostile force, are polluted under names of friendship and hospitality.
— from The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus

On all other occasions he was the last man in the world to forget anything, but in the surprise of the moment he apparently forgot the danger of infection from typhus, and the urgent necessity of forcing Lady Glyde to take proper care of herself.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

In medicine, the writings of Hippocrates, and other Greek physicians, were in general the standard of practice; but the Materia Medica contained few remedies of approved quality, and abounded with useless substances, as well as with many which stood upon no other foundation than the whimsical notions of those who first introduced them.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

The Septuagint, who were 70. learned men of the Jews, sent for by Ptolemy King of Egypt, to translate the Jewish Law, out of the Hebrew into the Greek, have left us no other for holy Scripture in the Greek tongue, but the same that are received in the Church of England.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

This Napoleon, to prove that the Marseillese have no chance ultimately, not only fights but writes; publishes his Supper of Beaucaire, a Dialogue which has become curious.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Sire of the storm gods, let thy favour extend to us; shut us not out from the sight of the sun; may our hero be successful in the onslaught.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

They are secrets to us not only for that He willeth that they be secrets to us, but they are secrets to us for our blindness and our ignorance; and thereof He hath great ruth, and therefore He will Himself make them more open to us, whereby we may know Him and love Him and cleave to Him.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

Now there must have been something in my note to you (to which this note of February 11th is a reply) which has offended you; else why this sudden change from the sentiments in your long and friendly letter to those of the unhappy note of February 11th?
— from A Battle of the Books, recorded by an unknown writer for the use of authors and publishers To the first for doctrine, to the second for reproof, to both for correction and for instruction in righteousness by Gail Hamilton

Governor Henry’s reply is of interest to us, not only for its allusion to his own domestic anxieties at the time, but for its revelation of the frank and cordial relations between the two men:— Richmond , March 12th, 1785.
— from Patrick Henry by Moses Coit Tyler

Hydraulic power has been used not only for graving docks, as shown in the above figures, but also for dragging ships out of the water up an inclined plane.
— from Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century by Robert Routledge

This right of eminent domain should be used not only for the benefit of the person wishing a home, but for the benefit of all the people.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 04 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Lectures by Robert Green Ingersoll

The Hebrew Codex, of which no translation had as yet been made, consisted of a series of fascicules, each one of which contained four sheets once folded, or four double leaves, the average number of characters on each single leaf amounting to about 525.[79] The Codex, which most probably included other treatises preceding and following Koheleth, possessed an unknown number of fascicules, Koheleth beginning on the sixth leaf of one and ending on the third of the fourth following.
— from The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur by Emile Joseph Dillon

The bird flew up, and sat in a lime-tree that grew before the mill, and sang— "My mother, she killed me;" then one man stopped; [471] "My father, he ate me;" then two more stopped and listened; "My sister, little Margery," then four more stopped; "Gathered up all my bones, Tied them in a silk handkerchief," now only eight more were chopping, "Laid them under" now only five, "the Juniper-tree." now only one.
— from The Fairy Book The Best Popular Stories Selected and Rendered Anew by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

Marriage evidently had not changed him, as he had the same subtle smile on his dark face, talked in the same vein of cynicism, and interlarded his conversation with his usual number of French ejaculations.
— from A Creature of the Night: An Italian Enigma by Fergus Hume

When in urgent need of funds James made flying trips to Pittsburg, he never saw his brother anywhere but at his office.
— from John Marsh's Millions by Arthur Hornblow

" These narratives by Smith's companions, which he made a part of his Oxford book, and which passed under his eye and had his approval, are uniformly not only friendly to him, but eulogistic of him, and probably omit no incident known to the writers which would do him honor or add interest to him as a knight of romance.
— from The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 3 by Charles Dudley Warner

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— from Motion Pictures 1960-1969: Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office