One cause of this barren blooming I attribute to a false system of education, gathered from the books written on this subject by men, who, considering females rather as women than human creatures, have been more anxious to make them alluring mistresses than rational wives; and the understanding of the sex has been so bubbled by this specious homage, that the civilized women of the present century, with a few exceptions, are only anxious to inspire love, when they ought to cherish a nobler ambition, and by their abilities and virtues exact respect.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

After dinner, he being gone, I to the office, and there for want of other of my clerks, sent to Mr. Gibbs, whom I never used till now, for the writing over of my little pocket Contract-book; and there I laboured till nine at night with him, in drawing up the history of all that hath passed concerning tickets, in order to the laying the whole, and clearing myself and Office, before Sir R. Brookes; and in this I took great pains, and then sent him away, and proceeded, and had W. Hewer come to me, and he and I till past twelve at night in the Office, and he, which was a good service, did so inform me in the consequences of my writing this report, and that what I said would not hold water, in denying this Board to have ever ordered the discharging out of the service whole ships by ticket, that I did alter my whole counsel, and fall to arme myself with good reasons to justify the Office in so doing, which hath been but rare, and having done this, I went, with great quiet in my mind, home, though vexed that so honest a business should bring me so much trouble; but mightily was pleased to find myself put out of my former design; and so, after supper, to bed.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

a term in logic, S3.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

When we add further that, unless we deny that the notion of morality has any truth or reference to any possible object, we must admit that its law must be valid, not merely for men but for all rational creatures generally, not merely under certain contingent conditions or with exceptions but with absolute necessity, then it is clear that no experience could enable us to infer even the possibility of such apodeictic laws.
— from Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals by Immanuel Kant

Now all that is left to me is not to spoil the end.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Mr. Moore told me of a picture hung up at the Exchange of a great pair of buttocks shooting of a turd into Lawson’s mouth, and over it was wrote “The thanks of the house.”
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

And that irritated Levin.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Now, seeing that when I speak my words are not uttered with any view of gaining favour, and that I look to what is best and not to what is most pleasant, having no mind to use those arts and graces which you recommend, I shall have nothing to say in the justice court.
— from Gorgias by Plato

All we Karamazovs are such insects, and, angel as you are, that insect lives in you, too, and will stir up a tempest in your blood.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Encouraged by this discovery, Edmond determined to assist the indefatigable laborer.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

The most considerable difference I note among men [he concludes] is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 by Thomas Henry Huxley

But in publishing this rubbish, the Delineator is a magazine of fashion in more senses than one; it is but following, according to its lights, a fashion current in much higher circles of "uplift" literature.
— from The Unpopular Review Vol. I January-June 1914 by Various

[10] A curious little book, [11] written against the quackery of Paracelsus, by Leonard Doldius, a Nürnberg physician, and translated into Latin and augmented, by Andreas Libavius, doctor and physician of Rotenburg, alludes to the same story, and gives the Jew a new name nowhere else met with.
— from Curious Myths of the Middle Ages by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

An expression of relief dawned upon Mrs. Stuart's countenance, for the black cook had been an insurmountable obstacle to all the Irish ladies who had applied.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

The mind of the adult, then, is like the body in bearing traces which betray to the skilled observer the events of its developmental history.
— from Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War by W. (Wilfred) Trotter

Ans The immutable law of God requires, that besides respecting the absolute rights of others, and being merely just, we should do good, be charitable, and obey the dictates of the generous and noble sentiments of the soul.
— from Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike

As soon as the hands came from aloft, they were ordered to their quarters, and we began firing away in return at the forts, as well as at the impudent little brig, which we at length silenced.
— from Dick Cheveley: His Adventures and Misadventures by William Henry Giles Kingston

And, Anna, while we are talking, I like to say to you that I have felt pretty mean more than once about the way I treated you that first day you come.
— from 'Way Down East A Romance of New England Life by Lottie Blair Parker

At No. 18 we see all that is left of a fourteenth-century hôtel de Nevers on the site of an older hôtel .
— from Historic Paris by Jetta Sophia Wolff