History is an impertinence and an injury, if it be anything more than a cheerful apologue or parable of my being and becoming.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

But it would be a mistake to attempt always to bring out directly that alone which appears to be hidden behind the naïve moment.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

I felt a funeral in my brain, And mourners, to and fro, Kept treading, treading, till it seemed
— from Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Emily Dickinson

Daghan nang mga batinbátin ang mangga, There are lots of young fruits on the mango tree.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

A completed theoretic philosophy can thus never be anything more than a completed classification of the world's ingredients; and its results must always be abstract, since the basis of every classification is the abstract essence embedded in the living fact,—the rest of the living fact being for the time ignored by the classifier.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

With great respect, your friend, W. T. SHERMAN I did return about October 15th, saw President Grant, who said nothing had been done in the premises, but that he would bring General Belknap and me together and settle this matter.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

It seems to have been a movable tower, and cased with iron.
— 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

You would much more quickly help send a missionary to the Chinese in China than be a missionary to a Chinaman in America, would you not?
— from Aliens or Americans? by Howard B. (Howard Benjamin) Grose

“Mr. Dundas is so eager and alive,” she had said, “that I thought, dear Madge, that he might like to begin any moment to accustom himself a little, poor fellow, to his new circumstances.
— from The Angel of Pain by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

He had but 20,000 men, for the Saxons could not be reckoned upon; and indeed it was probable that their elector, whose jealousy and dislike of Gustavus would undoubtedly be heightened by the events of the battle of Breitenfeld, would prove himself to be a more than a doubtful ally were the Swedish army to remove to a distance.
— from The Lion of the North: A Tale of the Times of Gustavus Adolphus by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

If we've luck we may get enough at any rate to give Miss Bowes and Miss Teddington a dish for supper.
— from For the Sake of the School by Angela Brazil

To avoid being stunned by the clamours of the dispute, in which two or three monks with stentorian voices began to take part most vehemently, Don Pedro, Verdeil, and I climbed up amongst the hanging shrubberies of arbutus, bay, and myrtle, to a little platform carpeted with delicate herbage, exhaling a fresh, aromatic perfume upon the slightest pressure.
— from Italy; with sketches of Spain and Portugal by William Beckford

This mill ordinarily employs about six men: One general superintendent, who buys and measures the apples, keeps time books, attends to all the accounts and the working details of the mill, and acts as cashier; one sawyer, who manufactures lumber for the local market and saws the slabs into short lengths suitable for the furnace; one cider maker, who grinds the apples and attends the presses; one jelly maker, who attends the defecator, evaporator, and mixing tub, besides acting as his own fireman and engineer; one who attends the apple seed troughs and acts as general helper, and one man-of-all-work to pack, ship and assist whenever needed.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882 by Various

Monsieur Malorme Just then Monsieur Malorme, whom the Blaines have engaged to talk French with Bertie before he joins the Embassy in Paris, came over with a note from Blanche asking me to a garden party on Saturday.
— from The Letters of Her Mother to Elizabeth by W. R. H. (William Rutherford Hayes) Trowbridge

“And as the king passed by, he cried unto the king and said: Thy servant went out into the midst of the battle, and behold a man turned aside and brought a man unto me and said, Keep this man; if by any means he be missing, then shall thy life be for his life or else thou shalt pay a [Pg 161] talent of silver.
— from Wit and Humor of the Bible: A Literary Study by Marion D. (Marion Daniel) Shutter

His best are Miss Thornton and Lady Ascot.
— from Australian Writers by Desmond Byrne

Those who have honoured me by asking me to address them are aware that my convictions are opposed to theirs at points.
— from That Which Hath Wings: A Novel of the Day by Richard Dehan