The generic image is only the indistinctly-bounded residual representation left in us by similar representations, when they are present in consciousness simultaneously; the class is a logical symbol by means of which we think distinctly of these similarities and of other analogous ones.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

"However, although perhaps I could suggest what may be safer than what thou, Cherea, hast contrived and said, yet how is it possible for any one to suggest what is more for thy reputation?"
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

it makes the digestion good, a long wind, a clear voice, an acute sight, a good colour, it suffers no offensive thing to remain in the body, neither wind, flegm, choler, melancholy, dung, nor urine, but brings them forth; it brings forth filth though it lie in the bones, it takes away salt and sour belchings, though a man be never so licentious in diet, he shall feel no harm: It hath cured such as have the phthisic, that have been given over by all Physicians: It cures such as have the falling sickness, gouts, and diseases and swellings of the joints: It takes away the hardness of the liver and spleen.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

I think that was all; but I read them over and over, until the words were so worn and pressed I could scarcely make them out.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

O, yet methought I saw the Holy Grail, All palled in crimson samite, and around Great angels, awful shapes, and wings and eyes.
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

But youth is not prone to contemplate the darkest side of a picture it can shift at will.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

He again declined to take his seat as a peer in Charles’s second Parliament; but the last stage of his life displayed more dignity and real greatness 31 than the “pride, pomp, and circumstance” of his high offices and honors.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

At last—after how long a period I cannot say—consciousness and recollection stole back to me together.
— from Stromboli and the Guns by Francis Henry Gribble

Andrews making up his accounte, and I think you are all perswaded I can say more then M r .
— from Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts by William Bradford

He crept about with heedful care and never a word, prying as he went, and presently I could see that he shook his big head as though in doubt, nay, or in sorrow.
— from Margery (Gred): A Tale Of Old Nuremberg — Complete by Georg Ebers

In a large number of instances it throws upon the Grammar School master the necessity of receiving into his room, and personally instructing, Common School pupils, as well as those whom it is his more particular duty to attend to.
— from Egerton Ryerson and Education in Upper Canada by J. Harold (John Harold) Putman

I commit all that remains to the care of Mr. Playfair, that excellent, may I venture to call him, friend, to whose goodness I am deeply indebted——" The concluding lines of this memoir were scarcely legible, and traced with a pencil in characters so unlike the writing which preceded, as to prove that an effort of expiring strength had added them by way of supplement to the narrative.
— from Tales of My Time, Vol. 1 (of 3) Who Is She? by William Pitt Scargill

Either theirs is an abnormal case, or their perceptions are perverse; I cannot say which.
— from Zones of the Spirit: A Book of Thoughts by August Strindberg

—A newspaper has a right to publish criticisms of the conduct of a priest in certain services held in his church if no false statement [pg 207] of facts is given, since such conduct is a proper subject of discussion; and if such article contains a statement that if certain published accounts of the conduct of the priest are true he acted in an improper manner, etc., it is not libelous because such facts are not true, as it is not an affirmation of the truth thereof.
— from The Clergyman's Hand-book of Law: The Law of Church and Grave by Charles Martin Scanlan