The three ideals: A. Either a strengthening of Life ( paganism, ) or B. an impoverishment of Life ( anæmia ), or C. a denial of Life ( anti-naturalism ).
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The outcome of his psychology and criticism seemed accordingly to be an inhibition of reason; he was left free to choose between the distractions of backgammon and "sitting down in a forlorn scepticism.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Lastly the river appeared, still holding the mists between its banks and its overhanging alders, and only visible as far as a hill, which cut off its upper reaches.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

By coach to the Duke of Albemarle, where Sir W. Batten and I only met.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

As all the organic beings, extinct and recent, which have ever lived, can be arranged within a few great classes; and as all within each class have, according to our theory, been connected together by fine gradations, the best, and, if our collections were nearly perfect, the only possible arrangement, would be genealogical; descent being the hidden bond of connexion which naturalists have been seeking under the term of the Natural System.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

Till now mere will , it becomes also idea , object of the knowing subject.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

He first shows why a human soul must return into a human body in accordance with natural analogy, every creature being after its own kind always; and then, because the purpose of the Resurrection is the judgement, that the soul must return into its own body.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

But Joseph, considering and reasoning about the dream, said to him, that he would willingly be an interpreter of good events to him, and not of such as his dream denounced to him; but he told him that he had only three days in all to live, for that the [three] baskets signify, that on the third day he should be crucified, and devoured by fowls, while he was not able to help himself.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

In his day, he tells us, the two events were separated by an interval of a full month, though they had coincided a hundred and twenty years before the time he was writing.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 06 of 12) by James George Frazer

We're baith turnin' auld, an' our walth is soon tauld, But contentment bides aye in our cottage sae
— from The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Burton Egbert Stevenson

But the war then changed its character: the Texans, nearly all North Americans, skilful hunters, indefatigable marchers, and marksmen of proverbial reputation, broke up into small bands, and instead of offering the Mexican troops a front, which would have enabled them to outmanoeuvre and crush them, they began a hedge war, full of tricks and ambushes, after the manner of the Vendeans, the first result of which was to enormously fatigue the soldiers by compelling them to make continual marches and counter-marches, and produced among them discouragement and demoralization, by compelling to fight against a shifting foe, whom they knew to be everywhere, and yet could never seize.
— from The Freebooters: A Story of the Texan War by Gustave Aimard

He was the sort of man who is not only ignorant, but absolutely incapable of English.
— from Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Don heard her appeal, and it thrilled him, but his uncle’s words had raised up an obstinacy that was stronger than ever, and while longing to throw himself in his mother’s arms—passionately longing so to do—his indignant pride held him back, and he stood with his head bent, as in obedience to her brother Mrs Lavington took his arm, and allowed him to lead her out of the office, weeping bitterly the while.
— from The Adventures of Don Lavington: Nolens Volens by George Manville Fenn

In this book he was deeply read, and recollected, when in conversation, not only those parts which, for historical facts, sublimity, pathos, or poetic beauty, are impressed on most minds, but also the minor circumstances, for he could from memory trace the several tribes, and tell you accurately the genealogy of any particular person.
— from The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume 1 (of 3) by Henry Fuseli

Biard suspected these proceedings to be an invocation of the Devil, and "in order," he says, "to thwart this accursed tyrant, I made our people sing a few church hymns, such as the Salve, the Ave Mans Stella, and others.
— from France and England in North America, Part I: Pioneers of France in the New World by Francis Parkman

He had the converter holding the molten iron mounted on an [Pg 282] axis, which enabled him at any moment he liked to turn it round and to bring the holes above the level of the metal; whenever this was done the process of conversion or combustion ceased of itself, and the apparatus had only to be turned back again in order to resume the operation.
— from Stories of Invention, Told by Inventors and their Friends by Edward Everett Hale

The earlier work south of the Loire is part Roman, part Byzantine, and it occasionally reaches, as at Moissac, a level of extraordinary decorative value, with, in its bas reliefs, a feeling for rhythmical line and space composition that are quite {239} astounding.
— from Heart of Europe by Ralph Adams Cram