35 A secure and profound peace, such as had been once enjoyed in the reign of Numa, succeeded to the tumults of a republic; while Rome was still adored as the queen of the earth; and the subject nations still reverenced the name of the people, and the majesty of the senate.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

“Surely to assault truth is a more serious misdemeanor than to insult a pygmy personality such as the judge’s.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

Principles such as the law of gravitation are proved, or rather are rendered highly probable, by a combination of experience with some wholly a priori principle, such as the principle of induction.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

Instances of these are scarcely common, but the family of Kekitmore may be adduced as bearing "Gules, three S's or," while Bridlington Priory had for arms: "Per pale, sable and argent, three B's counterchanged."
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Nor will it be (to my thinking) amiss, that we enter into the Pythagoric field, and choose for an assistant to the three afore-named doctors our ancient faithful acquaintance, the philosopher Trouillogan; especially seeing a perfect philosopher, such as is Trouillogan, is able positively to resolve all whatsoever doubts you can propose.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Later writers, says Leake, make no mention of Cisthene; and Ptolemy, Pliny, Stephanus, agree in showing that Megiste and Dolichiste were the two principal islands on the coast of Lycia: the former word Megiste, greatest , well describing the island Kasteloryzo or Castel Rosso, as the latter word (longest) does that of Kakava.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

Tell him the history of an honest man whom men want to persuade to join the calumniators of an innocent and powerless person (say Anne Boleyn, accused by Henry VIII of England).
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

No conversation, not one word, passed between General Lee and myself, either about private property, side arms, or kindred subjects.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

A secure and profound peace, such as had been once enjoyed in the reign of Numa, succeeded to the tumults of a republic; while Rome was still adored as the queen of the earth; and the subject nations still reverenced the name of the people, and the majesty of the senate.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

'I remember a pleasant place, set about with fruit-trees, where one can walk in meditation—and the air is cooler there.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

Mr. Bernard did as Abel said; he was in a purely passive state, and obeyed orders like a child.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

Amongst savage tribes both were worn in some form or another—the necklace as an ornament pure and simple, but the bracelet serving frequently a practical purpose, sometimes as a shield for the arm in combat, sometimes covered with spikes, and used for offensive purposes.
— from Jewellery by H. Clifford (Harold Clifford) Smith

It is almost as if the crisis four years ago served as a purgatory, purging sins and sinners alike and creating the conditions for the revival of a healthier, longer-lived, bourgeoisie.
— from Russian Roulette: Russia's Economy in Putin's Era by Samuel Vaknin

If, after all her striving, freedom had come to her as a gift, as a peaceful present such as is sometimes given away with a pound of tea, Ireland would have accepted the gift with shamefacedness, and have felt that her centuries of revolt had ended in something very like ridicule.
— from The Insurrection in Dublin by James Stephens

That the government of Ireland by what he called a Protestant Parliament sitting at Westminister, meaning the Parliament of the United Kingdom, had failed, he not merely admitted, but loudly proclaimed.
— from The Life of Froude by Herbert W. (Herbert Woodfield) Paul

Reding, in a pamphlet published shortly after this time, gave full particulars of his interviews with Bonaparte at Paris, and stated that he had fully approved of his (Reding's) federal plans.
— from The Life of Napoleon I (Complete) by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose

Labour and skill, such as were so plainly devoted to the construction of these wonderful roads, would be expended only by conquerors determined on full and permanent possession, such as the Romans maintained for three hundred and seventy years:—the Blackstone Edge road has in addition the special interest which attaches to features not found anywhere else, at all events nowhere else in England.
— from Lancashire: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes by Leo H. (Leo Hartley) Grindon