"The Greek church, and a good part of Christendom besides, never received your service in an unknown tongue, but in their own natural language, which all the people understand; neither your transubstantiation, your receiving in one kind, your purgatory, your images, &c. "As for the unity which is in your church, what is it but treason, murder, poisoning one another, idolatry, superstition, and wickedness?
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

INSULTING WHITES Feb. 18, John Hughes, Moberly, Mo.; June 2, Isaac Lincoln, Fort Madison, S.C. MURDEROUS ASSAULT April 20, Daniel Adams, Selina, Kan. NO OFFENSE July 21, Charles Martin, Shelby Co., Tenn.; July 30, William Steen, Paris, Miss.; Aug. 31, unknown negro, Yarborough, Tex.; Sept. 30, unknown negro, Houston, Tex.; Dec. 28, Mack Segars, Brantley, Ala. ALLEGED RAPE July 7, Charles T. Miller, Bardwell, Ky.; Aug. 10, Daniel Lewis, Waycross, Ga.; Aug. 10, James Taylor, Waycross, Ga.; Aug. 10, John Chambers, Waycross, Ga. ALLEGED STOCK POISONING Dec. 16, Henry G. Givens, Nebro, Ky.
— from The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

However, we shall see immediately how far the application of physical and chemical modes of explanation [pg 186] to the organism may yet, within certain limits, be allowable and useful; for I shall explain that the vital force certainly avails itself of and uses the forces of unorganised nature; yet these forces no more constitute the vital force than a hammer and anvil make a blacksmith.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Uneasiness now yielded to the most extreme dread on the part of those present.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

“But let us not yield to gloomy apprehensions,” said the young man; “I assure you we are, or rather we shall be, very happy.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Move not unless you see an advantage; use not your troops unless there is something to be gained; fight not unless the position is critical.
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi

In his then state of mind it did not surprise him to see her up, nor yet to hear her ask in an anxious whisper where Cornelius could be.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

It was written to Charles Sprague Smith, director of the People's Institute, at Cooper Union, New York, to be read before the institute in lieu of an address.
— from The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 5 July 1906 by Various

For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God. 'For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us: Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others; for then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan

To Ursula, not yet twenty, these ladies looked very mature, almost aged, being one of them ten, and the other eight years older than herself.
— from Phoebe, Junior by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

c. The entire work forms the cheapest and probably now the most desirable Encyclopædia published for popular use."— New York Tribune.
— from Endless Amusement A Collection of Nearly 400 Entertaining Experiments in Various Branches of Science; Including Acoustics, Electricity, Magnetism, Arithmetic, Hydraulics, Mechanics, Chemistry, Hydrostatics, Optics; Wonders of the Air-Pump; All the Popular Tricks and Changes of the Cards, &c., &c. to Which is Added, a Complete System of Pyrotechny; Or, the Art of Making Fire-works. by Unknown

WILSON PROFESSOR OF ZOOLOGY COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY New York THE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS 1908 BIOLOGY A LECTURE DELIVERED AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE SERIES ON SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY AND ART NOVEMBER 20, 1907 BIOLOGY BY EDMUND BEECHER
— from Biology A lecture delivered at Columbia University in the series on Science, Philosophy and Art November 20, 1907 by Edmund B. (Edmund Beecher) Wilson

THE PRESIDENT'S HOME ON SAGAMORE HILL, SHOWING ADDITION KNOWN AS THE TROPHY ROOM From stereograph, copyright 1907, by Underwood & Underwood, New York "There is no mistake about it, Mr. President
— from Camping & Tramping with Roosevelt by John Burroughs

Church Union , N. Y. The Golden Argosy has eclipsed , in every respect, its older but less enterprising contemporaries.—
— from Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 4, January 26, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various

But if the king your master has given you any such thing in charge—which I much doubt—I believe it is because, being but a young man, and lately advanced to the crown, not by ordinary succession of blood, but by election, he understandeth not yet the way of such affairs."
— from History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609) by John Lothrop Motley

Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, N. Y. The Last Photograph of the Titanic, Taken as She Was Leaving Southampton on Her Maiden Voyage These wireless warnings prove that the captain of the Titanic knew there was ice to the north, to the south, and immediately ahead of the southerly steamship route on which he was steaming.
— from An Unsinkable Titanic: Every Ship its own Lifeboat by John Bernard Walker