At his departure the emperor bestowed upon him many ample donatives of an inestimable value; and besides, the more entirely to testify his affection towards him, heartily entreated him to be pleased to make choice of any whatsoever thing in Rome was most agreeable to his fancy, with a promise juramentally confirmed that he should not be refused of his demand.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Judgment is employed in the perception; otherwise the perception is mere sensory excitation or else a recognition of the result of a prior judgment, as in the case of familiar objects.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

The commissioners met at St. Louis and elected N. G. Taylor, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, president; J. B. Sanborn, treasurer; and A. S. H. White, Esq., of Washington, D. C., secretary.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Every one of the bridesmaids was so powdered and painted that there was not a sweet or fresh face among them—I can see a procession just like them any evening on the musical comedy stage!
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

"—Bonaparte was beginning to feel firm in the saddle, while at Paris Josephine was treated like a princess.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

Originally, indeed, it meant only the mode or manner of doing things, but it early came to mean the prescribed manner; that which the recognized authorities, patriarchal, judicial, or political, would enforce.
— from Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill

twas so far from being either aiding or abetting thereunto, that 'twas the whole business of his life, to keep all fancies of that kind out of her head—Nature had done her part, to have spared him this trouble; and what was not a little inconsistent, my father knew it—And here am I sitting, this 12th day of August 1766, in a purple jerkin and yellow pair of slippers, without either wig or cap on, a most tragicomical completion of his prediction, 'That I should neither think, nor act like any other man's child, upon that very account.'
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

But sublimity [with which the feeling of emotion is bound up 29 ] requires a different standard of judgement from that which is at the foundation of taste; and thus a pure judgement of taste has for its determining ground neither charm nor emotion, in a word, no sensation as the material of the aesthetical judgement.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

This daughter was a perfect jewel, who had very little difficulty in persuading me to come with them to Stuttgart, where I expected, for other reasons, to have a very pleasant stay.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

and Brutus, Macbeth and Hamlet; or who asks himself which suffered most, Othello or Iago; will ever accuse Shakespeare of representing the ultimate power as 'poetically' just.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

I detest: a playful Jew, a radical Ukrainian, and a drunken German.
— from Note-Book of Anton Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The third course consisted of chicken or partridge: on less happy occasions foreign and "shudderous" dishes appeared; a peculiar jelly shell-fish was the lowest ebb—that and pork we resented.
— from In the Tail of the Peacock by Isabel Savory

[118] The following are the names of the respectable dealers to whom we recommend the mineralogist to apply,—At Truro , Tregoning, Mudge, and Heard;—at Redruth , Bennett; at Gwenap , Michell;—at Saint Agnes , Argall;—at Falmouth , Trathan;—and at Penzance , Jacobs, the latter of whom has generally a great variety of Saint Just minerals on sale.
— from A Guide to the Mount's Bay and the Land's End Comprehending the topography, botany, agriculture, fisheries, antiquities, mining, mineralogy and geology of West Cornwall by John Ayrton Paris

} O balmy breath, that dost almost persuade Justice to break her sword!—one more, one more.— Be thus when thou art dead, and I will kill thee, And love thee after.—One more, and this the last.
— from The Man Shakespeare and His Tragic Life Story by Frank Harris

It was a pleasant journey."
— from Fashion and Famine by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

7:1 Of the sons of Issachar: Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four.
— from The World English Bible (WEB), Complete by Anonymous

"But the chances is that Mr. Taft and Professor Jinks may have a private idee
— from Worrying Won't Win by Montague Glass

In 1510 he commanded the troops which fought on behalf of the Duke of Ferrara against the Emperor and Pope Julius II., and the latter having excommunicated him for bearing arms against the Holy See,
— from The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Edition by Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre