The desire and loathing excited by improper esthetic means are really not esthetic emotions not only because they are kinetic in character but also because they are not more than physical.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

A train of reflection and rejoicing not easily exhausted, and readily, by simple transposition, maintainable for an indefinite period.
— from The House by the Church-Yard by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Educate the Russian or the American or the Englishman or the Irishman or Frenchman or any real northern European except the German, and you get the Anarchist, that is to say the man who dreams of order without organisation—of something beyond organisation....
— from Mr. Britling Sees It Through by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

They did not believe one word in a Rebel newspaper, except extracts from the Northern journals, and reports favorable to our Cause.
— from The Secret Service, the Field, the Dungeon, and the Escape by Albert D. (Albert Deane) Richardson

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— from Cicero: Letters to Atticus, Vol. 2 of 3 by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Tous ces menagemens, toute cette condescendance, toute cette humilité n’aboutissent a rien: nos ennemis en rient, et les Francais trop confiants sont punis pour avoir cru que la nation Américaine avoit un pavilion, qu’elle avoit quelque egard pours ses loix, quelque conviction de ses forces, et qu’elle tenoit au sentiment de sa dignité.
— from Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Thomas Jefferson

The flames spread with astonishing rapidity, notwithstanding every exertion, and ended in the destruction of a great part of the town.
— from Travels of Richard and John Lander into the interior of Africa, for the discovery of the course and termination of the Niger From unpublished documents in the possession of the late Capt. John William Barber Fullerton ... with a prefatory analysis of the previous travels of Park, Denham, Clapperton, Adams, Lyon, Ritchie, &c. into the hitherto unexplored countries of Africa by Robert Huish

We have seen, however, during the continuance of this war, how much virtue has been shown by Russians of all ranks, not even excepting the courtiers.
— from Ten Years' Exile Memoirs of That Interesting Period of the Life of the Baroness De Stael-Holstein, Written by Herself, during the Years 1810, 1811, 1812, and 1813, and Now First Published from the Original Manuscript, by Her Son. by Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine) Staël

Realizing these limitations, the German submersibles are equipped with small torpedoes, which are generally fired at ranges not exceeding eight hundred to two thousand yards.
— from The Journal of Submarine Commander von Forstner by Forstner, Georg-Günther, Freiherr von