Being very timorous, she took great care that we should both sleep in the same chamber; a circumstance that usually produces some consequences between a lad of twenty and a girl of twenty-five.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Whether this haggardness had aught to do with criminality, could not be determined; since, as intense heat and cold, though unlike, produce like sensations, so innocence and guilt, when, through casual association with mental pain, stamping any visible impress, use one seal—a hacked one.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

Suffice unto thy good, though it be small, / For hoard hath hate, and climbing tickleness; (uncertainty) / Praise hath envie, and weal is blent o'er all.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

For the function of reason is no Thracian or Lycurgean one to root up and destroy all the good elements in passion indiscriminately with the bad, but, as some genial and mild god, to prune what is wild, and to correct disproportion, and after that to train and cultivate the useful part.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

For Darius had sent Datis and Artaphernes, commanding them under pain of death to subjugate the Eretrians and Athenians.
— from Laws by Plato

These two methods of damping are confined to upright pianos.
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

The whole system of shipping and conveying these unfortunate persons, is one that stands in need of thorough revision.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

That fire began at the tower of Antonia, and went on to the palaces, and consumed the upper parts of the three towers themselves.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

íkit a close together, usually people.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

She told him that she could never listen to his suit; that it was unbecoming in a wise man to fix his thoughts, as he had done, on any other than his God; and entreated him to devote himself to a religious life, and conquer the unworthy passion which he had suffered to consume him.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

We find, indeed, moralists often exhorting men to moderate their ambition, consoling them under political adversity, and urging that there are some circumstances under which an upright man should for a time withdraw from public affairs; 274 but the general duty of taking part in political life was emphatically asserted, and the vanity of the quietist theory of life not only maintained, but even somewhat exaggerated.
— from History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

Now, when I smell violets and heliotrope, regret mingles with their aroma; and, after all, the sacrifice was in vain, and Elsie would have slept as calmly there, under palm and chestnut, as yonder, where the deodar-shadows fall.”
— from Vashti; Or, Until Death Us Do Part by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

Happily, this incident occurred but just before we set sail, for with it terminated my greatest solace at Dunkirk, the seeing and consoling those unhappy prisoners, and the regale of wandering by the sea-coast.
— from The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 by Fanny Burney

Then, as to working the vessel, it is true I cannot hoist the sails single-handed, but luckily we have enough of sail set already, and if it should come on to blow a squall, I could at least drop the peaks of the main and fore sails, and clew them up partially without help, and throw her head close into the wind, so as to keep her all shaking till the violence of the squall is past.
— from The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

“You know, that wonderful fairyland of yours is a subject of everlasting interest and curiosity to us poor outsiders who are denied a glimpse of its glories, and it is so very rarely that one of us enjoys the privilege that is mine just now, that I hope you will indulge my feminine curiosity as far as your good nature is able to temper your reserve.”
— from Olga Romanoff by George Chetwynd Griffith

The field is so vast and complicated that unless public opinion begins to mobilise without further delay and to form clear ideas as to how the principles laid down by our statesmen are to be converted into practice, it may find itself confronted, as it was confronted in 1814, with a situation which it can neither understand nor control, and with a settlement which will perpetuate many of the abuses which this war ought to remove.
— from The War and Democracy by John Dover Wilson

Transcriber's Notes: Obvious spelling and punctuation errors were repaired, but unusual spellings and grammatical uses were retained (vender, millionnaire, both indorse and endorse, academical, clock times using periods rather than colons, etc.).
— from Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 4, April, 1886 by Various

As he was a favorite at court, the usual patronage was readily extended to him; that is to say, he received a commission from the king, Don Ioam II., constituting him Adelantado, or military governor, of any country he might discover, with the single proviso, that he should bear all the expenses of the discovery and pay a tenth of the profits to the crown.
— from Wolfert's Roost, and Miscellanies by Washington Irving

I am convinced that there is no danger to be apprehended from their attempts: but it is truly important and consolatory [to us placemen, I suppose] to know, that if ever there should arise a serious alarm, there is but one spirit, one sense, [ and that sense I presume is not common sense ] and one determination in this house "—which undoubtedly is to hold all their places and pensions as long as they can.
— from The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 by Thomas Paine