12) The Pilgrim's Progress, in the Similitude of a Dream; The Second Part. Paras. 700-787. Bunyan, John. 1909-14. The Pilgrim's Progress. The Harvard Classics
...best of her. She will promise to some Crowns and Kingdoms if they will but take her advice, yet many has she brought to the Halter, and ten thousand times more to...

13) C. Early Civilizations and Classical Empires of South and East Asia. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
...throughout much of its history: an ongoing tension between localized rule (increasingly clustered around distinct regional cultures) and larger kingdoms or empires....

14) 2 Chronicles 36. The Holy Bible: King James Version.
...Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that...

15) Of Probability. Hume, David. 1909-14. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. The Harvard Classics
...past to the future, in order to determine the effect, which will result from any cause, we transfer all the different events, in the same proportion as they have...

16) The Fourth Book. XXIV. Relating That Which the Goatherd Told to Those That Carried Away Don Quixote. Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de. 1909-14. Don Quixote, Part 1. The Harvard Classics
...the gallant adventures and resolute acts he recounted unto us. There was no land in all the world whose soil he had not trodden on, no battle wherein he had not been...

17) The New Atlantis: Paras 1-29. Bacon, Francis. 1909-14. The New Atlantis. The Harvard Classics
...then named Tyrambel, were mighty and proud kingdoms in arms, shipping and riches: so mighty, as at one time (or at least within the space of ten years) they both...

18) §3. His Literary Work. VI. John Gower. Vol. 2. The End of the Middle Ages. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...in honour of his most valorous lord Henry of Lancaster, then earl of Derby, 3 marks out the times from the reign of Nebuchadnezzar until now, in accordance with the...

19) Walking [1862]. Henry David Thoreau. 1909-14. Essays: English and American. The Harvard Classics
...in the good sense, is no more vagrant than the meandering river, which is all the while sedulously seeking the shortest course to the sea. But I prefer the first,...

20) Ezra 1. The Holy Bible: King James Version.
...priests, and the Levites, with all them whose spirit God had raised, to go up to build the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem. 6 And all they that were about...