As long as they were awed by power and treated with moderation, their voluntary bands were distinguished in the armies of the empire; and the courage of these dogs, ever greedy of war, ever thirsty of human blood, is noticed with astonishment, and almost with reproach, by the pusillanimous Greeks.
— 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

I think it cites us, brother, to the field, That we, the sons of brave Plantagenet, Each one already blazing by our meeds, Should notwithstanding join our lights together And overshine the earth, as this the world.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own,
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

In the martial mythology and warlike poetry of the Scandinavians a wide field exists for assimilation, and a comparison of the poetical remains of the Asi of the east and west would alone suffice to suggest a common origin.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

; and Conscience, 161 note 1; Fundamental Paradox of, 48 , 130 , 136 , 137 , 173-174 , 194 Empirical Hedonism, 123-150 ; fundamental assumption of, 123 , 131 , 146 ; objections to, 460 ; Method of, takes advantage of traditional experience and of special knowledge, 477 , 479 Empirical Quantitative Hedonism, 146 Empiricism, 104 ‘End,’ ethical use of the term, 134 End, Interdependence of Method and, 8 , 83 , 84 ; adoption of any, as paramount, a phenomenon distinct from Desire, 39 Ends accepted as rational by Common Sense, 8 , 9 Energy, 237 Epicureanism, 11 , 84 Epicurus, 158 ‘Equal return,’ ambiguity of, 261 (cf. 288 seq. )
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Another and a less obvious way of unifying the chaos is to seek common elements in the divers mental facts rather than a common agent behind them, and to explain them constructively by the various forms of arrangement of these elements, as one explains houses by stones and bricks.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

They have been translated into the greater number of the languages both of Europe and of the East, and have been read, and will be read, for generations, alike by Jew, Heathen, Mohammedan, and Christian.
— from Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend by Aesop

The Alani, or, Albani of the East, a tribe related to the Massagetae, were threatening to invade his province, and he made this voyage with a view of fortifying the most important strategic points on the coast.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

He once said to me with a kind of pathetic protest, ‘Did M. —— tell you that I am a demon?’ Conclusion The Kidnap Theory, resting entirely upon the ethnological and social or psychological elements which we have elsewhere pointed out as existing in the superficial aspects of the essentially animistic Fairy-Faith as a whole, is accordingly limited in its explanation of this specialized part of the Fairy-Faith, the changeling belief, to these same elements which may exist in the changeling belief.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Wrote notes at once to England and to Germany.
— from Further Foolishness by Stephen Leacock

These are of troubadour effect and sing sad or tender love songs to the accompaniment of such instruments as lutes, guitars, bassoons, etc.
— from The Lover's Baedeker and Guide to Arcady by Carolyn Wells

Mr. Dart afterwards admitted that he prided himself upon the appearance of that envelope, all things, including inclement weather, considered—and presented it with a whispered, "Red wouldn't trust anybody with it but me.
— from The Short Cut by Jackson Gregory

The news would flash through the country-side and over to England, and he—Mulcahy—the trusted of the Third Three, had brought about the crash.
— from Soldiers Three - Part 2 by Rudyard Kipling

At the beginning of this paper I referred to the powerful hold that the realization of the fixity of the pole star would naturally have exerted upon the mind of primitive man, and I can produce no more striking illustration of this and of my view that the idea of central government and organization had been suggested by Polaris, than this account of the earnest and prolonged search of these ancient people for the stable centre of the earth, on which to found a permanent centre of terrestrial rule or the plan of the celestial government.
— from The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations A Comparative Research Based on a Study of the Ancient Mexican Religious, Sociological, and Calendrical Systems by Zelia Nuttall

So far we have been dealing with fundamental laws and tendencies, which were established long before Man appeared on the earth, although Man has often illustrated, and still illustrates, their inevitable character.
— from Essays in War-Time: Further Studies in the Task of Social Hygiene by Havelock Ellis

At first I was afraid of this eerie, ancient being.
— from Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Harry Kemp

If anything could cement still more closely the affections of the English and American peoples, it would be the sight of the tenderly sheltered graves of British soldiers in America, such as these at Drumthwacket and other historic fields on our Eastern coast.
— from Old-Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth by Alice Morse Earle

It is impossible to match in the English essay such talk as Hazlitt reproduces in his accounts of the evenings at Lamb’s room or of his meeting with Coleridge, in which high themes and spirited eloquence find spontaneous and unaffected expression through the same medium as might be employed in a deliberate definition of the nature of poetry.
— from Hazlitt on English Literature: An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by William Hazlitt

I don't believe any horse-race jockey ever got over the same amount of the earth any quicker than I did that last quarter on the home stretch—I had got "in range," and was in a hurry to get out.
— from The Boy Spy A substantially true record of secret service during the war of the rebellion, a correct account of events witnessed by a soldier by Joseph Orton Kerbey