He was a professor in Paris, and chief physician at the Hospital St. Louis.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

It is natural that these and a countless and infinite quantity of other reasons, the number depending on the endless diversity of points of view, presented themselves to the men of that day; but to us, to posterity who view the thing that happened in all its magnitude and perceive its plain and terrible meaning, these causes seem insufficient.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The English who emigrated three hundred years ago to found a democratic commonwealth on the shores of the New World, had all learned to take a part in public affairs in their mother-country; they were conversant with trial by jury; they were accustomed to liberty of speech and of the press—to personal freedom, to the notion of rights and the practice of asserting them.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Look at me well; I am that lad Andres that your worship released from the oak-tree where I was tied.” Don Quixote recognised him, and taking his hand he turned to those present and said: “That your worships may see how important it is to have knights-errant to redress the wrongs and injuries done by tyrannical and wicked men in this world, I may tell you that some days ago passing through a wood, I heard cries and piteous complaints as of a person in pain and distress; I immediately hastened, impelled by my bounden duty, to the quarter whence the plaintive accents seemed to me to proceed, and I found tied to an oak this lad who now stands before you, which in my heart I rejoice at, for his testimony will not permit me to depart from the truth in any particular.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The family has its "skeleton in the closet," social groups avoid the public "washing of dirty linen"; the community banishes from consciousness, if it can, its slums, and parades its parks and boulevards.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

A direct ethical judgment unquestionably also plays its part, and last, not least, we apply to our own persons judgments originally called forth by the acts of others.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

For example, I corrected an orthographical fault (which I had in common with all Genevese) by these two lines of the Henriade: Soit qu’ un ancient respect pour le sang de leurs maitres, Parlat encore pour lui dans le coeur de ces traitres I was struck with the word ‘parlat’, and found a ‘t’ was necessary to form the third person of the subjunctive, whereas I had always written and pronounced it parla, as in the present of the indicative.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Exchange has also played its part, and unprejudiced observers have often been more struck in the presence of facts by agreement than by difference.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

For it is God's will that we hold us in comfort with all our might: for bliss is lasting without end, and pain is passing and shall be brought to nought for them that shall be saved.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

A few extracts from The Prince will show how closely both the Prussians and the Terrorists of France and Russia have followed Machiavelli's manual for despots: "He who usurps the government of any State is to execute and put in practice all the cruelties which he thinks material at once, that he may have no occasion to renew them often," etc. 777
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Perhaps it is unfortunate for him that he early gained a hearing, or at least a place in print, and was thus encouraged in acquiring a fixed habit of writing, to the exclusion of any other bread-winning pursuit.
— from Impressions of Theophrastus Such by George Eliot

Well, the syndicate wants a boy to go around and put in pennies, and get the prizes, when people are looking on, so as to get them interested, so they will put in pennies, see?”
— from Peck's Uncle Ike and The Red Headed Boy 1899 by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck

Since the culture of the Old World grape is centered in California, almost confined to that state, California practice may be taken as a pattern in pruning and training the vines of this species.
— from Manual of American Grape-Growing by U. P. Hedrick

It appears, indeed, that Mr. Upton did at one time entertain the idea of preparing "a short narrative of his own life," urged so to do by the affectionate request of a friend; but the purpose was afterwards abandoned, probably, in part at least, from the cause to which we have adverted.
— from The Baptist Magazine, Vol. 27, 1835 by Various

But the old trees, being gone by age and few new thriving, as the Spanish negroes foretold, little or none now is produced worthy the care and pains in planting and expecting it.
— from The Food of the Gods A Popular Account of Cocoa by Brandon Head

It calls a man good who goes to church, offers a prayer in public and accepts the Bible as the word of God; it calls a man bad who stays at home and enjoys himself with his family on Sunday, who eats without asking God to bless his food, and who does not expect to go to heaven on the vicarious railroad.
— from Is The Bible Worth Reading, and Other Essays by L. K. (Lemuel Kelley) Washburn

And if men pray, and pray, and pray, in public, and then come out of their churches and chapels and not only forget all about their prayers but never expect an answer to them, and do nothing in their lives in accordance therewith, is there any wonder that they are not answered?
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St. Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Alexander Maclaren

On the strength of the information thus obtained, a well-known colored man, named Adams, was straightway arrested and put in prison at the instance of one of the owners, and also a suit was at the same time instituted against the Rail Road Company for damages—by which steps quite a huge excitement was created in Baltimore.
— from The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. by William Still

I had been the guest of the baroness in the great ambassadorial palace on the Boulevard Ayas Pasha in Pera, and found it hard to believe that the woman who had then dwelt in nothing less than regal state was now reduced to the necessity of taking war-bread with her tea—even when she had visitors.
— from The Iron Ration: Three Years in Warring Central Europe by George Abel Schreiner