The mind, like the body, he observed, delighted in change and novelty, and even in religion itself, courted new appearances and modifications.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

Exceeding well; his cares are now all ended.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Such characters are not altogether exceptional in heroic Spain; it is a land of extremes.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The position of woman, while so unfortunate in Japan, as in China and nearly all eastern countries, in the Philippines is most fortunate, and is certain to tell effectually upon the advancement of the race in competition with other eastern civilizations.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

These four evidences I believe to have been and still to be, for the world, for the whole Church, all necessary, all equally necessary: but at present, and for the majority of Christians born in Christian countries, I believe the third and the fourth evidences to be the most operative, not as superseding but as involving a glad undoubting faith in the two former.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

But since not every good we can divide, And reason bids us for our own provide; Passions, though selfish, if their means be fair, List under Reason, and deserve her care; Those, that imparted, court a nobler aim, Exalt their kind, and take some virtue’s name.
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope

Thirteen crossings are necessary, and each line shows the position when the boat is in mid-stream during a crossing, the point of the bracket indicating the direction.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

She was still in an excited, hysterical state, laughing convulsively at nothing and everything.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It is reported that many of the children are nourished almost entirely on coffee soup up to ten years of age, yet the mentality and physique of the populace does not fall below that of others of the same stock and educational opportunities.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Another is a pilgrim that perished in as clear a night as ever shone on St. Bernard, and merely for having taking a cup too much to cheer his way.
— from The Headsman; Or, The Abbaye des Vignerons by James Fenimore Cooper

We agree that these assessments are for the purpose of defraying the expenditures of any one Government toward maintaining and upgrading those common space and traffic management systems that fall within their borders, or other mutually agreed upon jurisdictions, and for performing such services for the common good as: a. removal of hazards to innocent passage; b. traffic control; c. search and rescue; d. acquisition, deployment, operation and servicing of communications and navigational aids; e. construction, operation and maintenance of space and surface ports of entry and departure for the common use of all spacecraft; f. trained, equipped and ready investigation teams to assist Governments of Primary Concern in determining the facts of "incidents-in-space" which occur in proximate international areas, and g. emergency logistical support capabilities for performing urgent essential repairs to damaged spacecraft of other Nations in peaceful transit.
— from The Universe — or Nothing by Meyer Moldeven

6 E. 22 2 9 66 N A few clouds at N. and E. but very thin.
— from Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, Volume 4 (of 5) In the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773 by James Bruce

So he contrived a neat and effective surprise; risky, it is true; but it is exactly the character of an able commander to take risks at the right time, and not lose .
— from Men of Our Times; Or, Leading Patriots of the Day Being narratives of the lives and deeds of statesmen, generals, and orators. Including biographical sketches and anecdotes of Lincoln, Grant, Garrison, Sumner, Chase, Wilson, Greeley, Farragut, Andrew, Colfax, Stanton, Douglass, Buckingham, Sherman, Sheridan, Howard, Phillips and Beecher. by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Beyond San Louis was situate the mysterious Ben Joul, [282b] to which place he said the Inglis came, a nation at eternal enmity with the Francis, fair in complexion, and addicted to strong drink, but pleasant to deal with, and in business having but one word.
— from Mogreb-el-Acksa: A Journey in Morocco by R. B. (Robert Bontine) Cunninghame Graham

She smokes cigarettes, and never anything else.
— from Letters to Madame Hanska, born Countess Rzewuska, afterwards Madame Honoré de Balzac, 1833-1846 by Honoré de Balzac

Decomposition of water Water —Water is a compound and not an element, as can be shown by passing an electric current through it.
— from Encyclopedia of Diet: A Treatise on the Food Question, Vol. 1 of 5 by Eugene Christian

The causes of so much misery, suffering and poverty in a rich and self-governing country are numerous; and every cause needs a separate consideration and remedy.
— from London's Underworld by Thomas Holmes

The courts and the pronaos compose a narrow and elongated rectangle, with which the parts corresponding to the sanctuary and its dependent chambers form a right angle (see Fig. 224 ).
— from A History of Art in Ancient Egypt, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Charles Chipiez