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— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by Arthur Schopenhauer

The sum is twenty-one books, which contain the sum of five hundred and seven chapters, as more plainly shall follow hereafter.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

By what possible arguments, Stranger, can any man persuade himself of such a monstrous doctrine? ATHENIAN: There is surely no difficulty in seeing, Cleinias, what is in accordance with the order of nature? CLEINIAS: You would assume, as you say, a tyrant who was young, temperate, quick at learning, having a good memory, courageous, of a noble nature? ATHENIAN: Yes; and you must add fortunate; and his good fortune must be that he is the contemporary of a great legislator, and that some happy chance brings them together.
— from Laws by Plato

And I'll be bound to say, we have many among us who, if he were gone, could spring into the breach and carry on the war which compels, and shall compel, all material power to yield to science.'
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Nothing that we remember beyond one single passage, in which the god Neptune is [Pg 46] described in a steeple chase, and 'making play' at a terrific pace.
— from The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg by Thomas De Quincey

The large acquisition of new territory was fiercely lighting up the fires of a slavery controversy, and Mr. Polk recommended the extension of the Missouri compromise line to the Pacific Ocean, as the most effectual and easy method of averting the dangers to the Union, which he saw in that question.
— from Thirty Years' View (Vol. 2 of 2) or, A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850 by Thomas Hart Benton

Later this was converted into a stock company and Mr. Pillow was elected to the presidency.
— from Montreal from 1535 to 1914. Vol. 3. Biographical by William H. (William Henry) Atherton

Feb. 7—British expect Turks again to attack Suez Canal, and make plans accordingly.
— from New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915 by Various

You are not ignorant, good uncle, what heaps of heaviness have of late fallen among us already, with which some of our poor family are fallen into such dumps that scantly can any such comfort as my poor wit can give them at all assuage their sorrow.
— from Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens by More, Thomas, Saint

“Therefore in scorn I draw my bitter breath, And sorrow cherish as my proudest right, Till scorn and sorrow fade in sweeter death.”
— from The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance by Paul Elmer More

Some thirty women standing with their faces toward the centre, their hands on each other's shoulders, circled round with unrhythmic steps, crying and singing, and occasionally jumping up and down with all their energy, like the dancers of Horace, “striking the ground with equal feet,” coming down upon the earth with a heavy thud, at the same time slapping their faces with their hands; then circling around again with faster steps, and shriller cries, and more prolonged ululations, and anon pausing to jump and beat the ground with a violence sufficient to shatter their frames.
— from In the Levant Twenty Fifth Impression by Charles Dudley Warner

The Town Cross ran with wine, the high lands were hung with banners and scarlet cloth, and morality plays were performed before the people.
— from The Spell of Scotland by Keith Clark