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— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

As she uttered these words, she again pushed Pan Erh forward.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

This is the doctrine of the true church on the subject of opium: of which church I acknowledge myself to be the only member—the alpha and the omega: but then it is to be recollected that I speak from the ground of a large and profound personal experience: whereas most of the unscientific {13} authors who have at all treated of opium, and even of those who have written expressly on the materia medica, make it evident, from the horror they express of it, that their experimental knowledge of its action is none at all.
— from Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey

The follies and disloyalty committed in his youth were to be expiated by a long and painful penance, ere he could be restored to the full enjoyment of the confidence of his ancient people; and without confidence there could be no authority in an Indian tribe.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

It is a pleasant possibility, execute it or not.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

First, therefore, I say, you cannot have a perfect palace, except you have two several sides; a side for the banquet, as is spoken of in the book of Esther, 465 and a side for the household; the one for feasts and triumphs, and the other for dwelling.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

Púsose ella de rodillas, y, sin articular palabra, presentó el 10 azafate de frutos al augusto prisionero.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

We afterward passed Prince Edward’s Island, leaving it also on our left, then, steering more to the northward, made, in fifteen days,
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

This is why, a practical, political education, to be successful, must become a matter of interest to the children while they are young.
— from Solaris Farm: A Story of the Twentieth Century by Milan C. Edson

I went up into the sloping garden behind the inn and smoked a pipe pleasantly enough, to the tune of my landlady’s lamentations over sundry cabbages and cauliflowers that had been spoiled by caterpillars.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 22 Juvenilia and Other Papers by Robert Louis Stevenson

In numbers, the Spanish and Portuguese people exceed the population of Germany and France combined, but their moral influence, in an international sense, is imperceptible.
— from The Anglo-Saxon Century and the Unification of the English-Speaking People by John R. (John Randolph) Dos Passos

A newcomer to our list of journals is The Silver Clarion , issued by Mr. John Milton Samples of Macon, Ga., a promising poet, essayist, and editor, who has just entered the Association.
— from Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

The most ancient pulpit, perhaps, existing in this country, is that in the refectory of the abbey (now in ruins) of Beaulieu, Hampshire: it is of stone, and partly projects from the wall, and is ornamented with mouldings, sculptured foliage, and a series of blank trefoiled pointed arches, in the style of the thirteenth century.
— from The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed. by Matthew Holbeche Bloxam

He is full of quickness and penetration, piercing easily below the clumsy platitudes of Thrasymachus to the real difficulty; he turns out to the light the seamy side of human life, and yet does not lose faith in the just and true.
— from The Republic by Plato