But to be assured their words are without any thing correspondent to them in the mind, there would need some Examples; which if any man require, let him take a Schoole-man into his hands, and see if he can translate any one chapter concerning any difficult point; as the Trinity; the Deity; the nature of Christ; Transubstantiation; Free-will. &c. into any of the moderne tongues, so as to make the same intelligible; or into any tolerable Latine, such as they were acquainted withall, that lived when the Latine tongue was Vulgar.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

In conducting this examination, at the present stage of our inquiry, we shall have to use the received notions of Duty without further definition or analysis: but it is commonly assumed by those whose view we are to examine that these conceptions—as they are found in the moral consciousness of ordinary well-meaning persons—are at least approximately valid and trustworthy; and the preceding chapters will have fully shown that the generalisations of Hedonism must be established, if at all, by large considerations and decisive preponderances, and that it would be idle in considering a question of this kind to take account of slight differences, and to pretend to weigh in our mental scales comparatively small portions of happiness.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

It is remarkable that in many papal pictures the wafer and the cup are depicted precisely as the sun and moon in conjunction.
— from Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, on the Assyrian Sacred "Grove," and Other Allied Symbols by Thomas Inman

deorum consolatur afflictos, deducit perterritos a timore, cupiditates imprimis, et iracundias comprimit.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

who I find by discourse to be a very ingenious man, and among other things a great master in the secresys of powder and fireworks, and another knight to dinner, at the Swan, in the Palace yard, and our meat brought from the Legg; and after dinner Sir W. Pen and I to the Theatre, and there saw “The Country Captain,” a dull play, and that being done, I left him with his Torys
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

He used to visit the classes and distribute pictures among the poor but studious children, as well as provide them with books and paper.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

When we have time you must take me all through in every nook and corner—show me all the secret closets and dark passageways and tell me its history.”
— from The Traitor: A Story of the Fall of the Invisible Empire by Dixon, Thomas, Jr.

Mutilation and death are another; misery, cold and dirt; pain, and the intense loneliness of men left behind by armies, with much to think of; no hope, and a day or two to live.
— from Unhappy Far-Off Things by Lord Dunsany

On the other hand, the Northern style with its bold assurance, strong coloring and drawing positive almost to the point of seeming sculptural, was more akin to their mental outlook.
— from Chinese Painters: A Critical Study by Raphaël Petrucci

A lens with one side plane and the other ground on a conical tool is therefore a concave cylindrical lens varying in concavity at different parts according to the diameter of the cone at the corresponding part.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887 by Various

I did not die, for somebody coming gave me a strange, bitter draught; a decoction, I believe, of a bitter root which grows on commons and desolate places: and the person who gave it me was an ancient female, a kind of doctress, who had been my nurse in my infancy, and who, hearing of my state, had come to see me; so I drank the draught, and became a little better, page 135 p. 135
— from Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest by George Borrow

I did not die, for somebody coming, gave me a strange, bitter draught; a decoction, I believe, of a bitter root which grows on commons and desolate places; and the person who gave it me was an ancient female, a kind of doctress, who had been my nurse in my infancy, and who, hearing of my state, had come to see me; so I drank the draught, and became a little better, and I continued taking draughts made from the bitter root till I manifested symptoms of convalescence.
— from Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest by George Borrow

But it appears undoubted that the statements of Curr and Dawson, perhaps also those of Meyer, Schurman and Taplin (confirmed by Angas), are of quite unquestionable reliability.
— from The Family among the Australian Aborigines, a Sociological Study by Bronislaw Malinowski

See what forethought and expenditure are given to make successful the "smoking-club," the "wine-social," the "card and dancing parties," and the "theater."
— from Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes by J. M. Judy

Such associations, subjected to no controlling and discriminating power, are the fruitful source of all vain opinions, prejudices, senseless conceits, and hollow reasonings.
— from Four Phases of Morals: Socrates, Aristotle, Christianity, Utilitarianism by John Stuart Blackie

He was not one whit ashamed to be seen wearing a working cap and carrying a dinner pail and the bundle under his arm, but cap, pail and overalls were distressingly new and conspicuous, and he was something like a boy in his first Sunday suit and wondering if it fitted right, and how the public took it.
— from Ralph of the Roundhouse; Or, Bound to Become a Railroad Man by Allen Chapman