The time it takes us, a rather conservative estimate, is fifty hours to get any eBook selected, entered, proofread, edited, copyright searched and analyzed, the copyright letters written, etc.
— from Relativity : the Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein

or of duality?—Supposing there were such a thing as a regular contracting energy in all the centres of force in the universe, the question would be, whence could the most insignificant difference spring?
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

This I now opened, and had the satisfaction to find, recorded by the old Surveyor's pen, a reasonably complete explanation of the whole affair.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In the forum, the senate, or the camp, the adult son of a Roman citizen enjoyed the public and private rights of a person: in his father's house he was a mere thing; 1031 confounded by the laws with the movables, the cattle, and the slaves, whom the capricious master might alienate or destroy, without being responsible to any earthly tribunal.
— 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

Relative to Pythagoras of the same country, we have it upon the authority of a Christian writer, that he exhibited such a remarkable character, even in youth, as to attract the attention of all who saw and heard him speak."
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

n. ancient right , Ct. ealdgesegen f. ancient tradition , B 869.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

In the human body also there are two loves; and the art of medicine shows which is the good and which is the bad love, and persuades the body to accept the good and reject the bad, and reconciles conflicting elements and makes them friends.
— from Symposium by Plato

The words slave and right contradict each other, and are mutually exclusive.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Vauquer’s magpie’s eye had discovered and read certain entries in the list of shareholders in the funds, and, after a rough calculation, was disposed to credit Goriot (worthy man) with something like ten thousand francs a year.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

Magnificent diamonds sparkled in a rusty case, ear-rings and rings lay in a little heap, and a handful of uncut stones was wrapped in a bit of chamois skin.
— from Betty Gordon at Boarding School; Or, The Treasure of Indian Chasm by Alice B. Emerson

We accordingly took the back-wood trail, across a hilly and romantic country, entirely mineral, and full of extinct, volcanoes.
— from Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet by Frederick Marryat

—The innominate artery divides into the right subclavian and right carotid exactly behind the sterno-clavicular articulation.
— from A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Joseph Bell

[96] Unde propter causas prædictas generali providentia statutum est, ut Jerosolymitanus Patriarcha, petendi contra immanissimum hostem Saladinum auxilii gratia, ad christianos principos in Europam mitteretur; sed maxime ad illustrem Anglorum regem, cujus efficacior et promptia opera sperabatur.—
— from The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple by C. G. (Charles Greenstreet) Addison

The worst deeds are sanctified by love of God, and religion condones every indecency.
— from Arrows of Freethought by G. W. (George William) Foote

'All right,' Charlie exclaimed, 'we are not Dutchmen.'
— from Chatterbox, 1905. by Various

The pair in front of them consisted of an Albanian laden with yataghans and a Swiss girl with blue eyes and skin white as milk, who looked as plump as a quail with her chemise-sleeves and red corset exposed to view.
— from Sentimental Education; Or, The History of a Young Man. Volume 1 by Gustave Flaubert

First of these acquisitions was the purchase, consummated about a month after the Corporation was organized, of the Bessemer Steamship Co., a Rockefeller concern engaged in traffic on the Great Lakes and which had been closely affiliated with the Lake Superior Iron Mines.
— from United States Steel: A Corporation with a Soul by Arundel Cotter

It is obvious that such charges and recriminations could excite no healing result, and that the lines between Cardinalists and their opponents would be defined in consequence more sharply than ever.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 07: 1561-62 by John Lothrop Motley