The brother of Encenas had been taken up much about the same time, for having a New Testament, in the Spanish language, in his possession; but before the time appointed for his execution, he found means to escape out of prison, and retired to Germany.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

We must strive to make every stage one of perfection, and rejoice therein,—we must make no leaps!
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

We may therefore repeat the two parts of our principle as regards the general law, thus: (a) The greater the number of cases in which a thing of the sort A has been found associated with a thing of the sort B, the more probable it is (if no cases of failure of association are known) that A is always associated with B; b) Under the same circumstances, a sufficient number of cases of the association of A with B will make it nearly certain that A is always associated with B, and will make this general law approach certainty without limit.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

Nearly all our orchidaceous plants absolutely require the visits of insects to remove their pollen-masses and thus to fertilise them.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

All who were desirous of entering into the new communion took an oath of poverty, and relinquished their possessions for the general good of the fraternity.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

" Whereupon he dismissed the multitude, who prayed greatly for his prosperity; and he took the army out of Ptolemais, and returned to Antioch; from whence he presently sent an epistle to Caesar, and informed him of the irruption he had made into Judea, and of the supplications of the nation; and that unless he had a mind to lose both the country and the men in it, he must permit them to keep their law, and must countermand his former injunction.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

The other effects of this woman had been already seized upon, such I mean as she had brought with her out of Perea, and removed to the city.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

No enterprise seeking the material, civil, or moral welfare of this section can disregard this element of our population and reach the highest success.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

Many of our orchidaceous plants absolutely require the visits of moths to remove their pollen-masses and thus to fertilise them.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

In this same province of Warthrenion, and in the church of Saint Germanus, [15a] there is a staff of Saint Cyric, [15b] covered on all sides with gold and silver, and resembling in its upper part the form of a cross; its efficacy has been proved in many cases, but particularly in the removal of glandular and strumous swellings; insomuch that all persons p. 16 afflicted with these complaints, on a devout application to the staff, with the oblation of one penny, are restored to health.
— from The Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin Through Wales by Cambrensis Giraldus

Then try and make Allie understand how unbecoming and unlovable jealousy is, and how it renders a man or woman an object of pity and ridicule to others.
— from A Woman of the World: Her Counsel to Other People's Sons and Daughters by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

They become type-writers: they become cashiers in shops; they sit in the outer office of photographers and receive the visitors: they 'devil' for literary men: they make extracts: they conduct researches and look up authorities: they address envelopes; some, I suppose, go home again and contrive to live somehow with their relations.
— from As We Are and As We May Be by Walter Besant

Mildness, amid the neo-Neitzschean clatter, His sense of graduations, Quite out of place amid Resistance to current exacerbations, {67} Invitation, mere invitation to perceptivity Gradually led him to the isolation Which these presents place Under a more tolerant, perhaps, examination.
— from Poems 1918-21, Including Three Portraits and Four Cantos by Ezra Pound

He shows himself in it a warm advocate of English rights and liberties, and an opponent of papal and regal tyranny.
— from Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Albans With an Account of the Fabric & a Short History of the Abbey by Perkins, Thomas, Rev.

Narvaez [ 303 ] made the city a centre from which he launched a series of incursions into the neighbouring districts of Granada for the purpose of obtaining provisions and relieving the unfortunate inhabitants of any booty which might happen to be left to them.
— from Legends & Romances of Spain by Lewis Spence

Add to which, that, by this method, a child is early taught the lesson which cannot be learnt too soon, that in this world of ours pleasures are rightly to be obtained only by labour.
— from Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Herbert Spencer

As we rode back there was a good deal of wind against us, and I was out of practice and rather tired, so I found the crowded streets of Cairo alarming, and was much relieved to give up my bicycle without having run over any one or damaged the machine.
— from A Nurse's Life in War and Peace by E. C. (Eleanor Constance) Laurence