It is to be found in every blade of grass, in every insect, in every bird and in every animal, as well as in man.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

It is indisputable that, apart from the extreme disparity between the two republics, the bourgeoisie of Geneva is exactly equivalent to the patriciate of Venice; our natives and inhabitants correspond to the townsmen and the people of Venice; our peasants correspond to the subjects on the mainland; and, however that republic be regarded, if its size be left out of account, its government is no more aristocratic than our own.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Wherefore He willeth not one thing now, another anon, but once, and at once, and always, He willeth all things that He willeth; not again and again, nor now this, now that; nor willeth afterwards, what before He willed not, nor willeth not, what before He willed; because such a will is and no mutable thing is eternal: but our God is eternal.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Now all thought which thus varies is mutable; and no mutable thing is eternal: but our God is eternal."
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

BIX offers global Internet email, telnet and ftp, multiple conferences.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

Some conception of the extent of the changes which are taking place in the world under the influence of these forces may be gathered from the fact that in 1870 the cost of transporting a bushel of grain in Europe was so great as to prohibit its sale beyond a radius of two hundred miles from a primary market.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

This would keep him between our garrisons in East Tennessee and the enemy.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

But one glance is enough to show that there cannot be one matter of spiritual and of corporeal things.
— from Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

For, concede its death, Allow extinction, you may boast unchecked What feats the thing did in a crazy land At a fabulous epoch,—treat your faith, that way, Just as you treat your relics: "Here's a shred Of saintly flesh, a scrap of blessed bone, Raised King Cophetua, who was dead, to life In Mesopotamy twelve centuries since, Such was its virtue!"—twangs the Sacristan, Holding the shrine-box up, with hands like feet Because of gout in every finger-joint: Does he bethink him to reduce one knob, Allay one twinge by touching what he vaunts?
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

There is the liquid music of Provence, the iron rasp of Normandy, the clipped French of Paris, the uncouth burr of Gascony; I even heard a Flanders oath or two to-day.
— from The King's Scapegoat by Hamilton Drummond

And this sort of thing is going on in every blossom and leaf and blade of grass, in every hair and every feather over the surface of the earth.
— from The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer by John Gerard

Bad or good, I enjoyed it, and wrote home a detailed criticism of the play.
— from The Puppet Show of Memory by Maurice Baring

" He strode up to Ellen's father with a bag of gold in each hand.
— from Stories of Robin Hood by Bertha Evangeline Bush

“Greatest bunch of girls I ever saw,” he replied heartily.
— from The Camp Fire Girls Solve a Mystery; Or, The Christmas Adventure at Carver House by Hildegard G. Frey

( b ) Pyrrhus with a strong band of Greeks is endeavoring to batter down the gates of the palace at its main entrance.
— from Two Dramatizations from Vergil: I. Dido—the Phœnecian Queen; II. The Fall of Troy by Virgil

How the benevolence of God is exhibited to us by the light of reason. (2.)
— from A Practical Directory for Young Christian Females Being a Series of Letters from a Brother to a Younger Sister by Harvey Newcomb