The critic of Christianity cannot evade the necessity of making Christianity contemptible .—A book of laws such as the Code of Manu has the same origin as every other good law-book: it epitomizes the experience, the sagacity and the ethical experimentation of long centuries; it brings things to a conclusion; it no longer creates.
— from The Antichrist by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

She saw him once again at Rome, on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, carrying a burden of acorns.
— from A Room with a View by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

The suit, judgment and subsequent legal proceedings appear to have driven Biscoe almost crazy and brooding over his wrongs he grew to be a confirmed imbecile.
— from The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

No fixed relation can be stated between the extent of the territory and the population that are adequate one to the other, both because of the differences in the quality of land, in its fertility, in the nature of its products, and in the influence of climate, and because of the different tempers of those who inhabit it; for some in a fertile country consume little, and others on an ungrateful soil much.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Let your most faulty characters always be on the wrong side, and your virtuous ones on the right.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

If our common needs create a bond of interest our common sufferings create a bond of affection.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

As we have already seen, the great movement for the creation of communes and bourgeoisies only dates from the unsettled period ranging from the eleventh to the thirteenth centuries, and simultaneously we see the bourgeois appear, already rich and luxurious, parading on all occasions their personal opulence.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

He next celebrates the two funerals of his colleague and brother, one after the other, he himself acting as panegyrist in the case of both, when by ascribing to them his own deserts, he himself obtained the greatest share of them.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

The tears ran continuously down her pallid cheeks, and Bragi, overcome by her unhappiness, at length bade the other gods return to Asgard without him, vowing that he would remain beside his wife until she was ready to leave Hel’s dismal realm.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

How can a ball of fire possibly descend into the water and not be extinguished?
— from What Men Live By, and Other Tales by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

This was a close alliance between O'Connell and those whom he had so fiercely denounced as "the base, brutal, and bloody whigs".
— from The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) by John Knight Fotheringham

The new commander-in-chief added that he should advise Wilson to bring off his British officers and depart with the rest, as the Portuguese would be unable to make any head against Bonaparte, and it would be a useless sacrifice to linger in their company and be overwhelmed.
— from A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 2, Jan.-Sep. 1809 From the Battle of Corunna to the End of the Talavera Campaign by Charles Oman

That was a far journey, in those days, for railway trains in 1835 had not reached the South and West, and John Clemens and his family traveled in an old two-horse barouche, with two extra riding-horses, on one of which rode the eldest child, Orion Clemens, a boy of ten, and on the other Jennie, a slave girl.
— from The Boys' Life of Mark Twain by Albert Bigelow Paine

"Will you let me call in Mr. Carford?" asked Bert of the principal.
— from The Bobbsey Twins at Snow Lodge by Laura Lee Hope

LOT L o ríca, a brest-plate, a cuirace, a brigandine or cote of maile.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

The colonies were then panting from a twenty years' conflict with the mother country, about bills of rights, charters, treaties, constitutions, grants, limitations, and acts of cession .
— from The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society

Varnum, Colonel, at Battle of Bunker Hill, 571 . Varrick, Colonel, at Battle of Stillwater-Rupture with Arnold, 056 .
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 1 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing

I went up the steps of the Château and banged on the great iron knocker.
— from Marion: The Story of an Artist's Model by Winnifred Eaton

At long and last, I minded having heard Andrew Redbeak, the excise-officer, say, that nothing ever put him right after a debosh except something they call a bottle of soda-water; so my wife dispatched Benjie to the place where we knew it could be found, and he returned in a jiffie with a thing like a blacking-bottle below his daidly, as he was bidden.
— from The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith by D. M. (David Macbeth) Moir