The science of war, that constituted the more rational force of Greece and Rome, as it now does of Europe, never made any considerable progress in the East.
— 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
SPLINTERS While I stand in reverence before the fact of Humanity, the People, I will confess, in writing my L. of G., the least consideration out of all that has had to do with it has been the consideration of "the public"—at any rate as it now exists.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman
For though custom and education produce belief by such a repetition, as is not derived from experience, yet this requires a long tract of time, along with a very frequent and undesigned repetition.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume
By the refusal of this, we acknowledge, that the idea is impossible and imaginary, since the principle of innate ideas, which alone can save us from this dilemma, has been already refuted, and is now almost universally rejected in the learned world.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume
Yet he that follows, aided by the wings of love, is the swifter, and denies her any rest; and is now just at her back as she flies, and is breathing upon her hair scattered upon her neck.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid
Despite his strangeness and remoteness, Apicius is not dead by any means.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius
And on the subject of theater dress it might be tentatively remarked that prinking and "making up" in public are all part of an age which can not see fun in a farce without bedroom scenes and actors in pajamas, and actresses running about in negligés with their hair down.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post
Let me hold fast to the rope, and enter into the depths: Shall I put the question to myself in this form?—Are all things at rest, and is nothing in motion?
— from Laws by Plato
I am right, am I not?”
— from The Boy Allies on the North Sea Patrol Or, Striking the First Blow at the German Fleet by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes
“From what I know of your noble character, I have every faith in your forgiveness, and rest assured, I never mean to face death without imploring you to rectify, if ever in your power, the wrong you accomplished, partly at my request, in breaking the holy cord of union which bound you during your natural existence to Sir John Dunfern, and again uniting it under foul auspices.
— from Irene Iddesleigh by Amanda McKittrick Ros
The Definition of the Will, given commonly by the Schooles, that it is a Rationall Appetite, is not good.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
I answer, first, the teaching profession has increased in dignity and reputation, and in no part of the world more than in the region where New York University finds its students.
— from The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 by Various
It was very still and peaceful and remote, as if no city were near.
— from A Spoil of Office: A Story of the Modern West by Hamlin Garland
I used to sit and wonder if there had ever been a runaway, and I never hired a rickshaw without thinking of Mr. Anstey's story of the talking horse.
— from Roving East and Roving West by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
This remarkable book is a record almost, if not quite, unique.
— from The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies by Walter Besant
At the right side of the altar was the monument which I had come in search of; a marble tablet fixed against the wall, and on it a poorly executed figure in high relief, with a ruff about its neck and features which might be meant for anyone and for no one in particular.
— from The English in the West Indies; Or, The Bow of Ulysses by James Anthony Froude
At P, the last portions of lead sulphate are removed, acid is no longer being formed, and hydrogen and oxygen gas are formed rapidly.
— from The Automobile Storage Battery: Its Care And Repair by Otto A. Witte
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