In general, then, as we have shown above, no etiological explanation can ever give us more than the necessarily determined position in time and space of a particular manifestation, its necessary appearance there, according to a fixed law; but the inner nature of everything that appears in this way remains wholly inexplicable, and is presupposed by every etiological explanation, and merely indicated by the names, force, or law of nature, or, if we are speaking of action, character or will.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

As the happiness of a future life is the great object of religion, we may hear without surprise or scandal, that the introduction or at least the abuse, of Christianity had some influence on the decline and fall of the Roman empire.
— 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

mātercula , an anxious mother , poor mamma , dear mamma ; lectulus , one’s own little bed ; ānellus aureolus , a gay gold ring ; Graeculī , our Greek cousins , the good people in Greece ; Graeculus , a regular Greek , your gentleman from Greece ; muliercula , a pretty girl , a lady gay , one of the gentler sex , a mere woman , an unprotected female , a maiden all forlorn ; lacrimula , a wee tear , a crocodile tear ; volpēcula , Master Reynard , dan Russel ; tōnstrīcula , a common barber girl ; popellus , rabble ; nummulī , filthy lucre ; mercēdula , an apology for pay ; ratiuncula , a first rate reason ; caupōnula , a low tavern .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

He writes light poetry and fashionable letters, strums on the cithern, and pretends to draw with crayon.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

He also dreamed of little descendants who should perpetuate the name of Chichikov; perhaps a frolicsome little boy and a fair young daughter, or possibly, two boys and quite two or three daughters; so that all should know that he had really lived and had his being, that he had not merely roamed the world like a spectre or a shadow; so that for him and his the country should never be put to shame.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

O Foible, I have been in a fright, lest I should come too late.
— from The Way of the World by William Congreve

We have many such fondlings that are their wives' packhorses and slaves, ( nam grave malum uxor superans virum suum , as the comical poet hath it, there's no greater misery to a man than to let his wife domineer) to carry her muff, dog, and fan, let her wear the breeches, lay out, spend, and do what she will, go and come whither, when she will, they give consent.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Or, in briefer form: how is music related to image and concept?—Schopenhauer, whom Richard Wagner, with especial reference to this point, accredits with an unsurpassable clearness and perspicuity of exposition, expresses himself most copiously on the subject in the following passage which I shall cite here at full length
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

He was satisfied that the fugitive’s shoe was worn in the sole so that the outer layer, worn thin and flopping loose, had slid onto one of the little malleable leaden bars used in the cathedral-glass windows.
— from Tom Slade : Boy Scout of the Moving Pictures by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

A fortnight later the girl arrived in England, and was met at Charing Cross by Saul Arthur Mann.
— from The Man Who Knew by Edgar Wallace

As a fact little Jon had done his best to conform to convention and spell himself first Jhon, then John; not till his father had explained the sheer necessity, had he spelled his name Jon.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume III. Awakening To Let by John Galsworthy

It is often impossible to draw a hard and fast line between the cranium and the vertebral column.
— from The Vertebrate Skeleton by Sidney H. (Sidney Hugh) Reynolds

[100] The Literary Gazette of November 20, 1858, contains a reply to this letter, but as it did not provoke a further letter from Mr. Ruskin, it is not noticed in detail here.
— from Arrows of the Chace, vol. 1/2 being a collection of scattered letters published chiefly in the daily newspapers 1840-1880 by John Ruskin

I’m going to beckon to Amos to come over here, and put a few leading questions to him.
— from Boy Scouts on the Open Plains; Or, The Round-Up Not Ordered by G. Harvey (George Harvey) Ralphson

Their fragrance even reached me as I stretched out at full length on the top of a lumbering chariot.
— from Sawdust & Spangles: Stories & Secrets of the Circus by W. C. (William Cameron) Coup