In fact, one often finds, as in beech forests, that the plants growing under the shade and protection of other species, and belonging to the most diverse families, assume growth-forms that are very similar to one another, but essentially different from those of the forest trees, which, in their turn, often agree with one another.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Secondly, he affirms that music and gymnastic are not, as common opinion is apt to imagine, intended, the one for the cultivation of the mind and the other of the body, but that they are both equally designed for the improvement of the mind.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

MEGILLUS: That is not an easy question to answer; still I should say that the common meals and gymnastic exercises have been excellently devised for the promotion both of temperance and courage.
— from Laws by Plato

The same may be said of “strike me lucky,” “never trust me,” and “so help me Davy;” the latter being evidently derived from the truer old phrase, “I’ll take my Davy on’t”— i.e. , my affidavit, “Davy,” and sometimes “Alfred Davy,” being a corruption of that word.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

Again, what is to be represented may be entirely different from him who represents it, as is the case in all other kinds of poetry, in which the poet more or less conceals himself behind his representation, and at last disappears altogether.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Britain every day buys, every day feeds, her own servitude.
— from The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus

Napoléon 1 er ( Bonaparte ), empereur des Français (1769-1821).
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

“In streets and all public walks, a well-bred person will be easily distinguished from another who sets at defiance the rules of good breeding.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

Old Robinson lifted his bleared eyes dismally for a moment, Chester looked at me with infinite contempt.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

“It ought to be east directly from here, just where the sun rises every morning,” answered Simba.
— from My Kalulu, Prince, King and Slave: A Story of Central Africa by Henry M. (Henry Morton) Stanley

Sound hearing or sense of smell ought to be ready for all that can be heard or smelt; and the healthy stomach should be equally disposed for all sorts of food, as a mill for all that it was built to grind.
— from The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus A new rendering based on the Foulis translation of 1742 by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

Therefore, if a landscape painter takes to the study of science at all, he would do well to study botany, which would be of use in his painting, rather than chemistry or mathematics, which would be entirely disconnected from it.
— from The Intellectual Life by Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Four years more passed before the Great Western was launched at Bristol, the first steamship to be especially designed for transatlantic service, and the era of great steam liners began.
— from The Age of Invention: A Chronicle of Mechanical Conquest by Holland Thompson

Well, when I saw what the sums amounted to, I found this plan certainly would not answer, and that I was getting into a mess; so I made up my mind to put an end to the thing at once,—and sat down to write to my father, telling him I had been playing billiards every day for some time past with a friend,—of course I did not mention who,—and that, without being at all aware of it, my losses had mounted up till I owed him one hundred pounds.
— from Frank Fairlegh: Scenes from the Life of a Private Pupil by Frank E. (Frank Edward) Smedley

He also endeavoured to attach me to virtue as such, and to render it to me, so to say, homely and familiar by examples drawn from the life of Zeno.
— from The Queen Pedauque by Anatole France