For the man himself who is in such a state, though it be in spirit only, not in body, yet sees himself so like to his own body that he cannot discern any difference whatever.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

This is to Pope an argument that the soul must be immortal, since only Nature, or God working through Nature, could have implanted this conception in the Indian's mind.
— from The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

[213] “Be it sin or no,” said Hester Prynne, bitterly, as she still
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Be it sin or no," said Hester Prynne, bitterly, as still she gazed after him, "I hate the man!"
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Mr. Nisbet Bain is, without question, the best informed student of Northern history who now writes for the British Public, and the volume before us will add to his reputation."— Manchester Courier. WESTMINSTER Archibald Constable and Co. 2 WHITEHALL GARDENS 1898 ANNOUNCEMENTS The Life of Sir Charles Tilston Bright By EDWARD BRAILSTON BRIGHT, C.E., and CHARLES BRIGHT, C.E., F.R.S.E. With many Illustrations, Portraits, and Maps.
— from The Kingdom of the Yellow Robe Being Sketches of the Domestic and Religious Rites and Ceremonies of the Siamese by Ernest Young

With tears in her eyes she told him she loved him yet, and should never love another; "but," she added, "I cannot place the slightest reliance upon your word, you have broken it so often; nor will I ever marry one who is so addicted to drink, as it would, in the end, involve us both in bitterest misery."
— from From Wealth to Poverty; Or, the Tricks of the Traffic. A Story of the Drink Curse by Austin Potter

But I spoke of no other kind of that temptation save only that one which is the daughter that the devil begetteth upon pusillanimity, because those other kinds of temptation fall not under the nature of tribulation and fear, and therefore fall they far out of our matter here.
— from Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens by More, Thomas, Saint

When you have been impressing upon a non-cricketing boy for nearly a month that ( a ) the school is above all a keen school, ( b ) that all members of it should play cricket, and ( c ) that by not playing cricket he is ruining his chances in this world and imperilling them in the next; and when, quite unexpectedly, you come upon this boy dressed in cricket flannels, wearing cricket boots and carrying a cricket bag, it seems only natural to assume that you have converted him, that the seeds of your eloquence have fallen on fruitful soil and sprouted.
— from Mike by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

"It is difficult to judge when Lord Byron is serious or not."— Lady Blessington .
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

The country around is flat and uninteresting, but Cologne merchants have made Brühl a little paradise in spite of this; and their country-houses of all styles, with balconies, verandas, porches, piazzas, English shrubbery and flower-gardens, conservatories and gay boats, lawns and statues, make even the monotonous banks of the sluggish Rhine beautiful in spite of Nature.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 20, August 1877 by Various