They are especially valuable as illustrating the great truth, too generally overlooked, that analytic power is a subordinate quality of the critic.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

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— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

On the very first evening after our arrival, Mr. Barkis appeared in an exceedingly vacant and awkward condition, and with a bundle of oranges tied up in a handkerchief.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

And as mere human knowledge can split a ray of light and analyse the manner of its composition, so, sublimer intelligences may read in the feeble shining of this earth of ours, every thought and act, every vice and virtue, of every responsible creature on it.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

There are no sub-divisions in the caste, but the members thereof are said to belong to four exogamous illams (houses of Nambūtiris), namely, Alayakad, Ennalu, Vaisyagiriam, and Vazhapally, which correspond to the gōtras of the Brāhmans, or to four clans, the members of each of which are perhaps descended from a common ancestor.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

“What are the land forces?” “Seventy thousand men, sire; all of whom are subjects of the Republic, and assessing each village at one man.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

An empire vaster and more populous than that of the CÊsars has since then been added to our dominion.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

We supped together, and, after passing an evening very agreeable to the wishes of my heart, I returned the next morning to Geneva with Du Villard, for whom I have ever since retained a sentiment of gratitude in return for the service he did me on this occasion.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I said: ‘Miss Lavish, I am an early Victorian; at least, that is to say, I will hear no breath of censure against our dear Queen.’
— from A Room with a View by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

Yet there is nothing to condemn in the sentiments there expressed, and we may echo the words of Sir Walter Scott:— [Pg 305] The wreath of Goldsmith is unsullied; he wrote to exalt virtue and expose vice; and he accomplished his task in a manner which raises him to the highest rank among British authors.
— from Nineteen Centuries of Drink in England: A History by Richard Valpy French

"Are you a vassal of Arnheim, Ital Schreckenwald, and do you speak to the Lady of Arnheim in her own castle with an elevated voice, a saucy look, and bonneted withal?
— from Anne of Geierstein; Or, The Maiden of the Mist. Volume 2 (of 2) by Walter Scott

All eagerly volunteered, and relieving each other in parties of two or three, for none could have supported the intense severity of the cold for long at a time, they managed to carry all the furs into the large room in about an hour.
— from The Fur Country: Or, Seventy Degrees North Latitude by Jules Verne

If the principles of Father Pöllmann would be applied, even various authors of biblical books would have to be called literary thieves.
— from My Life and My Efforts by Karl May

Davy made many experiments on the subject, and he found, that when these gases were mingled together in equal volumes over water, introduced into an exhausted vessel, and fired by the electric spark, muriatic acid resulted, although, at the same time, there was a certain degree of condensation, and a slight deposition of vapour; but on repeating the experiment in a manner still more refined, and by carefully drying the gases, such condensation became proportionally less.
— from The Life of Sir Humphrey Davy, Bart. LL.D., Volume 1 (of 2) by John Ayrton Paris

(The Hindoo name of mayûrâris, or enemy of the peacock, given to the chameleon, is remarkable; the animal which changes its colour is the rival of the bird which is of every colour; gods and demons are equally viçvarûpâs and kâmarûpas.)
— from Zoological Mythology; or, The Legends of Animals, Volume 2 (of 2) by Angelo De Gubernatis

His truth may not be our truth, and nevertheless may have an extraordinary value and interest for us.
— from Charmides by Plato

The ground beyond was favourable for an extended view, and as far as the eye could reach, small groups of individuals could be seen in the direction of the village; these were evidently parties of observation, whose sole object was to learn the result of our meeting with the main body and hasten with the news to the village
— from The Old Santa Fe Trail: The Story of a Great Highway by Henry Inman

It is an excellent vegetable, and very beneficial to health.
— from The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton