We found there pretty much the same state of facts as before existed at Mormon Island and Coloma, and we daily received intelligence of the opening of still other mines north and south.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

This cannot be eradicated, and must therefore be regulated,—the pleasure must be of the right sort.
— from Laws by Plato

In 1740, the Legislature of the State of New York declared that the direct importation of slaves ought to be encouraged as much as possible, and smuggling severely punished in order not to discourage the fair trader.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

And he led me back with him into his house, cried out to some one whom I could not see that he would be engaged all morning, and brought me into a little dusty chamber full of books and documents.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

In al this world ther nis so cruel herte That hir hadde herd compleynen in hir sorwe, That nolde han wopen for hir peynes smerte, So tendrely she weep, bothe eve and morwe.
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

This of course is not one nor the same to all: for instance, suppose ten is too much and two too little, people take six for the absolute mean; because it exceeds the smaller sum by exactly as much as it is itself exceeded by the larger, and this mean is according to arithmetical proportion.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

But, I said to Herbert that, before I could go abroad, I must see both Estella and Miss Havisham.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

But from the treatment of the victims both before and after death it appears that the custom cannot be explained as merely a propitiatory sacrifice.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

To all these improvements may be added an assiduous attention to mines and fisheries, which, by employing a multitude of laborious hands, serve to increase the pleasures of the rich and the subsistence of the poor.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Indeed, not only a child, but even a man of mature age, who has seen the constellations only on maps or globes, finds it difficult to recognize them in the heavens.
— from A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 02 by Voltaire

This last drew from Byron, who had met Beyle earlier at Milan, a letter of expostulation and vindication which did that noble poet infinite credit, but of which Beyle, by no means to his credit, took notice.
— from A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury

Sir James wielded great influence over his contemporaries generally, because of his great knowledge of Parliamentary tactics, and the fact that he was the best educated and most thoroughly accomplished statesman of his age.
— from The Grand Old Man Or, the Life and Public Services of the Right Honorable William Ewart Gladstone, Four Times Prime Minister of England by Richard B. (Richard Briscoe) Cook

These degraded peoples are pointed to by Evolution as man in a state of development.
— from The Other Side of Evolution: Its Effects and Fallacy by Alexander Patterson

A coiled spring inserted between engine and machinery is highly beneficial where extreme regularity of power is required.
— from Barkham Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 by Barkham Burroughs

The dilapidation had not been complete, but had been extensive, as may be gathered from the large expenditure recorded in this passage for repairs, and the enumeration of the artisans employed.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes by Alexander Maclaren

In the hall, he was instantly beset by Ethel and Mary, the former exclaiming, “Papa, you are quite mistaken!
— from The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

He tells me, brought in by Sir Robert Howard, [A younger son of Thomas Earl of Berkshire; educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge; knighted at the Restoration, and chosen M.P. for Stockbridge, and afterwards for Castle Rising.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys

With blazing eyes, and mouth firmly set, he endeavoured to reach the open window.
— from The Stowmarket Mystery; Or, A Legacy of Hate by Louis Tracy