Mr. George Wishart was born in Scotland, and after receiving a grammatical education at a private school, he left that place, and finished his studies at the university of Cambridge.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Ann rises and goes eagerly to meet her.
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

They were both variously great men, and certainly, according to the age, rare and great, each of them in his kind: but what destiny was it that placed them in these times, men so remote from and so disproportioned to our corruption and intestine tumults?
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

A certain amount of relief also was experienced by reflecting upon the injuries which they were inflicting on the enemy; for the fleet as it sailed round Peloponnesus destroyed many small villages and cities, and ravaged a great extent of country, while Perikles himself led an expedition into the territory of Megara and laid it all waste.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

Drach was the son of a rabbi, and received a good education from his father.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

David , Georg Nathan, son of a Jewish merchant, was born at Copenhagen in 1793, and after receiving a good education, embraced Christianity.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

C H A P. LVIII M Y father had such a skirmishing, cutting kind of a slashing way with him in his disputations, thrusting and ripping, and giving every one a 165 stroke to remember him by in his turn—that if there were twenty people in company—in less than half an hour he was sure to have every one of ’em against him.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

The cannon and the mortar are not only much dearer, but much heavier machines than the balista or catapulta; and require a greater expense, not only to prepare them for the field, but to carry them to it.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

My father had such a skirmishing, cutting kind of a slashing way with him in his disputations, thrusting and ripping, and giving every one a stroke to remember him by in his turn—that if there were twenty people in company—in less than half an hour he was sure to have every one of 'em against him.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

If you do not do so You shall be a rebel against God,” etc.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Arranged, revised, and greatly enlarged, by Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., F.R.S., &c., &c. 3 vols.
— from On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, and On the Will in Nature: Two Essays (revised edition) by Arthur Schopenhauer

There is here a retreat and gradual extinction of the will, whereby the body, which is the manifestation of the will, is slowly but surely undermined; and th
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; the Art of Controversy by Arthur Schopenhauer

All this is true; and yet it is also true that there are real and grave evils, one of the chief being over-capitalization because of its many baleful consequences; and a resolute and practical effort must be made to correct these evils.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

On the motion of the latter, it was unanimously determined that the forthcoming Annual Congress of the Bond should be asked to pass a— "resolution ( a ) giving expression of Congress's entire disapproval of the policy which led to the present bloody war instead of to a peaceful solution of the differences with the South African Republic by means of arbitration; and ( b ) urging a speedy re-establishment of peace on fair and righteous conditions, as also a thorough inquiry by our Parliament into the way in which, during the war, private property, the civil liberties, and constitutional rights of the subject have been treated."
— from Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 by W. Basil (William Basil) Worsfold

Instead, they had respected his movement with a respect as great even as an ejaculation of fear and backward steps.
— from The Open Boat and Other Stories by Stephen Crane

This tale of terror may be fitly closed by a dramatic story told by General Mathieu Dumas, who, while sitting at breakfast in Gumbinnen, saw enter a haggard man, with long beard, blackened face, and red and glaring eyes.
— from Famous Men and Great Events of the Nineteenth Century by Charles Morris

The habit of expecting troubles, sudden revolutions, calls to arms, rebellions, and great events, which marked the long period during which the house of Valois was slowly being extinguished in spite of Catherine de’ Medici’s great efforts to preserve it, took its rise at this time.
— from Catherine De Medici by Honoré de Balzac

He looked as happy as Gryllus , that companion of Ulysses , who, being transformed into a pig by Circe , and, being subsequently offered redintegration, preferred the swinish estate; huge and handsome as the famous boar, who ate the Reverend Mr. Haydn , after the victory of the rebels at Enniscorihy ; 1 obese and sleepy, as Silenus , when found by the shepherds, Chromis and Mnasylus ; 2 refreshed and comfortable, like that great O'Neill , who ( Camden says so) was wont to plunge himself into the mire, as a cooler and restorative, after great excess.
— from A Little Tour in Ireland by S. Reynolds (Samuel Reynolds) Hole

It is a pity such a man could not have found in his own country the conditions under which his talents could thrive and expand; for when one realises how much strength and originality there is in his music, one feels that had he worked in England he might have helped to found a native school, and so brought our musical Renaissance to birth at any rate a generation earlier than it has come.
— from Musical Studies by Ernest Newman