They are they who are represented as professing to love God whom they have not seen, whilst they hate their brother whom they have seen.
— from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass

Prince Andrew rose and politely placed a chair for her.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

To deny this is theoretical egoism , which on that account regards all phenomena that are outside its own will as phantoms, just as in a practical reference exactly the same thing is done by practical egoism.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

These proceedings were as rapid as possible; Caraccioli was brought on board at nine in the forenoon, and the trial began at ten.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

the Idea of the absolute whole, and consequently the very unpurposiveness of the faculty of Imagination for rational Ideas and the arousing of them, are represented as purposive.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

Moreover, for having shaken off the court and the exchange, we have not taken leave of the principal vexations of life: “Ratio et prudentia curas, Non locus effusi late maris arbiter, aufert;” [“Reason and prudence, not a place with a commanding view of the great ocean, banish care.”—Horace, Ep., i. 2.] ambition, avarice, irresolution, fear, and inordinate desires, do not leave us because we forsake our native country: “Et Post equitem sedet atra cura;”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

At the end of August the Mirasans, especially those of the Snake tribe, make a snake of dough which they paint black and red, and place on a winnowing basket.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

This again required a precise and subtle judgment.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

Near forty years afterwards Ammonius recited another poem on the same subject, in the presence of the emperor Theodosius.
— 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

A report also prevails that he offered sacrifice to Priam upon the altar of Zeus the household god, deprecating the wrath of Priam against the progeny of Neoptolemus, from whom Alexander himself derived his origin.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

Great sums are lost in gold-mining countries by injudicious investments in mills and machinery to work the auriferous rock, and persons going into the business should be particularly careful not to commit this great error.
— from Hittel on Gold Mines and Mining by John S. (John Shertzer) Hittell

A little superstition, and a few good broad theories, save man a great deal of trouble and research, and, perhaps, lead him as right as any of the hundred roads which philosophers and moralists are always busy paving for him.
— from The Desultory Man Collection of Ancient and Modern British Novels and Romances. Vol. CXLVII. by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Spoke several times, and was appointed to make the opening speech in one week from that time on the same subject, and to be answered by Rev. Mr. Briggs. FROM THE DAILY "ALTA CALIFORNIA" Mr. Parley P. Pratt, for whom we have considerable respect as a man and as a teacher, coupled with as much admiration of his talent as the doctrines which he employs to defend it will admit of, Mr. Parley P. Pratt appears to have walked into the temples of our money changers in this city, and fairly put to flight all reason and philosophy by the boldness of his attack upon the Christian Church.
— from The Autobiography of Parley Parker Pratt One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Embracing His Life, Ministry, and Travels by Parley P. (Parley Parker) Pratt

In 1877 Du Maurier depicts a lady resolutely determined to lace down to the waist measurement of a rival, and Punch quotes with approval Miss Frances P. Cobbe's indictment of the causes which led to the "Little Health of Women."
— from Mr. Punch's History of Modern England, Vol. 3 (of 4).—1874-1892 by Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves

By the present state of things, this evil is indeed altered, and the ruin of the creditor's effects is better prevented; the bankrupt can no more skulk behind the door of the Mint and Rules, and prevent the commissioners' inspection; he must come forth, be examined, give in an account, and surrender himself and effects too, or fly his country, and be seen here no more; and if he does come in, he must give a full account upon oath, on the penalty of his neck.
— from The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.) by Daniel Defoe

He hesitates a moment, then takes the proffered seat and says, almost brusquely: “Madam, give me my instructions as rapidly as possible; the very walls have eyes sometimes, and—I must be away from here before midnight.”
— from Dangerous Ground; or, The Rival Detectives by Lawrence L. Lynch

The first and most essential condition for the political and national levelling of the empire was the preservation and extension of the two nations destined to joint dominion, along with the absorption as rapidly as possible of the barbarian races, or those termed barbarian existing by their side.
— from The History of Rome, Book V The Establishment of the Military Monarchy by Theodor Mommsen

Her father drank, her mother fretted; they were poor; a rich aunt paid for her schooling.
— from Life and Death of Harriett Frean by May Sinclair