I say “have been,” but indeed there are plenty of them at this very day.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

They are the most general concepts which exist, because they are applicable to all that is real, and since they are not attached to any particular object they are independent of every particular subject; they constitute the common field where all minds meet.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Although it be simple and striking, nothing can suggest it but great knowledge and practice of the art, and it is by no means astonishing that not one of the academicians should have thought of it.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Page 188 Despujol managed to work himself into something like a passion over this alleged disrespect to the Pope, and ordered Rizal to be taken as a prisoner to Fort Santiago by the nephew who acted as his aide.
— from Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot by Austin Craig

Species and groups of species, which are called aberrant, and which may fancifully be called living fossils, will aid us in forming a picture of the ancient forms of life.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

and I sang a psalm or two and so I to sleep.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

We did not discover it from your letters—which we have not received; nor by the treatment our drafts have met with—which were not honored; nor by the reception of any part of the appropriation, no part of it having come to hand.”
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

So when I had come to consider the matter I asked them both; and the Colchians had remembrance of the Egyptians more than the Egyptians of the Colchians; but the Egyptians said they believed that the Colchians were a portion of the army of Sesostris.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

In other words, what we judge to be ‘wrong’—in the strictest ethical sense—is not any part of the actual effects, as such, of the muscular movements immediately caused by the agent’s volition, but the effects which he foresaw in willing the act; or, more strictly, his volition or choice of realising the effects as foreseen.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

The square, when they got there, was all full of wind and dust, and the thin trees in the garden were lashing themselves along the railing. Poole, who had kept all the way a pace or two ahead, now pulled up in the middle of the pavement, and in spite of the biting weather, took off his hat and mopped his brow with a red pocket-handkerchief.
— from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Indifferentism is the true condition of such a world, and turn the matter how you will, I don't see how any philosophy of the Absolute can ever escape from that capricious alternation of mysticism and satanism in the treatment of its great Idol, which history has always shown.
— from The Letters of William James, Vol. 1 by William James

The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
— from The War in the East: Japan, China, and Corea by Trumbull White

It is formed in this process by the iodine, in the first instance, decomposing a part of the ammonia; the hydrogen of which combines with a portion of the iodine, and produces hydriodic acid, which then unites with the undecomposed part of the ammonia, and forms the [178] hydriodate of ammonia; whilst the azote the other constituent of the ammonia, unites with another portion of the iodine, and forms the compound in question.
— from A System of Pyrotechny Comprehending the theory and practice, with the application of chemistry; designed for exhibition and for war. by James Cutbush

He told me that curiosity had led him to penetrate as far as this street, which faces the citadel of the revolters, the previous day, and he showed me a porte-cochère , under which he had taken shelter, during a part of the attack.
— from A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland by James Fenimore Cooper

"'Tis but twenty minutes short of noon, and thou not in the saddle and not a piece of thine armour girded on.
— from Edgar the Ready: A Tale of the Third Edward's Reign by W. P. Shervill

George stepped a pace or two away from the bed as he spoke.
— from A Girl in Ten Thousand by L. T. Meade

VI A Book of Blue Laws underneath the Bough, A pot of Tea, a piece of
— from The Rubaiyat of Ohow Dryyam With Apologies to Omar by J. L. Duff

Abbes was a company man in every respect, so he followed Hutton's policy of not telling anyone more than he had to: In Hutton's world, managers didn't let subordinates know what was going on so they couldn't demand a piece of the action for carrying out the schemes, and they didn't put anything in the record that would expose their superiors to liability; when there was a problem, the middle-level manager would take the fall, and whatever higher-ups he was protecting would make sure he had a soft place to fall, often as a consultant to one of the investment management firms Hutton dealt with, if it wasn't possible to move him someplace else within Hutton itself.
— from Diamond Dust by K. Kay Shearin

At a Japanese playhouse, however, a portion of the audience may be disposed to go home at some stage of the proceedings and return later.
— from The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People by J. W. (John William) Robertson Scott