A similar falsification had been practised in Edwards’s edition of 1793, but a different portrait had been copied.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

I to the King’s playhouse, to fetch my wife, and there saw the best part of “The Mayden Queene,” which, the more I see, the more I love, and think one of the best plays I ever saw, and is certainly the best acted of any thing ever the House did, and particularly Becke Marshall, to admiration.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

“Mind,” he began again, lifting one arm from the elbow, the palm of the hand outwards, so that, with his legs folded before him, he had the pose of a Buddha preaching in European clothes and without a lotus-flower—“Mind, none of us would feel exactly like this.
— from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

If you attempt to teach children how the sign has led to the neglect of the thing signified, how money is the source of all the false ideas of society, how countries rich in silver must be poor in everything else, you will be treating these children as philosophers, and not only as philosophers but as wise men, for you are professing to teach them what very few philosophers have grasped.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

2593 Both places in Eubœa, mentioned in c. 21 of this Book.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

So thy Care lives long, for I bearing part It eates not only thyne, but my swolne hart.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

Homer has never yet been printed in English, nor Æschylus, nor Virgil even—works as refined, as solidly done, and as beautiful almost as the morning itself; for later writers, say what we will of their genius, have rarely, if ever, equalled the elaborate beauty and finish and the lifelong and heroic literary labors of the ancients.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

A scheme of guilt, till it be put in execution, greatly resembles a train of incidents in a projected tale.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The plan for Natalie Rostóva’s abduction had been arranged and the preparations made by Dólokhov a few days before, and on the day that Sónya, after listening at Natásha’s door, resolved to safeguard her, it was to have been put into execution.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

It is nearly fleshy, a number usually growing together, or gregarious; thickened as if swollen, irregular; dirty-white, then black; the receptacle bearing perithecia in every part.
— from The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard

But since his holiness sees fit to do so, I feel it to be my duty, as a true daughter of the Church, to allow the order to be put into execution.
— from Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

This pure and rational idea of the beautiful—supposing it can be placed in evidence—cannot be taken from any real and special case, and must, on the contrary, direct and give sanction to our judgment in each special case.
— from Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller by Friedrich Schiller

They are not so executed as a matter of fact, and could be done better and cheaper by private individuals, experts, or lawyers, engaged for the purpose by inventors.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885 by Various

The orchestra furthermore was to perform the new symphonic poem by Saalfeld, the modern German composer, who was to conduct in person this piece, which had not yet been performed in England.
— from Robin Linnet by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

It is the object, then, in the present Report, rather to make known the details of proceedings, than to announce the abstract views upon which action is founded; to give up this Annual Report to a presentation of the mode of procedure; to a detail of the daily duties of the active members and agents; to a consideration of some of the antagonistic circumstances that hinder our progress, and to the means upon which reliance must be placed in efforts to alleviate the miseries of prisons.
— from The Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy (New Series, No. 3, January 1864) by Pennsylvania Prison Society

[Servia and Montenegro declare war, July 2.] Up to this time little attention had been paid in England to the revolt of the Christian subjects of the Porte or its effect on European politics.
— from A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 by Charles Alan Fyffe

What Christ appear'd for in the moral-spiritual field for human-kind, namely, that in respect to the absolute soul, there is in the possession of such by each single individual, something so transcendent, so incapable of gradations, (like life,) that, to that extent, it places all beings on a common level, utterly regardless of the distinctions of intellect, virtue, station, or any height or lowliness whatever—is tallied in like manner, in this other field, by democracy's rule that men, the nation, as a common aggregate of living identities, affording in each a separate and complete subject for freedom, worldly thrift and happiness, and for a fair chance for growth, and for protection in citizenship, &c., must, to the political extent of the suffrage or vote, if no further, be placed, in each and in the whole, on one broad, primary, universal, common platform.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

But predestination is eternal.
— from Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

The boys promised, and the chief rattlesnake then told them that there was a world above them, composed of ore more shining than that they had tossed in boyish play in each other's eyes—a beautiful world, peopled by creatures in the shape of beasts, having a pure atmosphere and a soft sky, sweet fruits and mellow water, well-stocked hunting-grounds and well-filled ponds.
— from Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 by James Athearn Jones