He cannot say that he has procured the citizens any pleasure, and if any one charges him with perplexing them, or with reviling their elders, he will not be able to make them understand that he has only been actuated by a desire for their good.
— from Gorgias by Plato

He had acquired a great reputation in France amongst the Encyclopedists by his essays on commerce and politics, and in the last place by his history of the House of Stuart, the only one of his writings of which I had read a part, in the translation of the Abbe Prevot.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

But this transient prosperity was soon interrupted and destroyed by the revolt of Count Gerontius, the bravest of his generals; who, during the absence of his son Constans, a prince already invested with the Imperial purple, had been left to command in the provinces of Spain.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Cauchi —a place, apparently in the Cherokee country, visited by Pardo in 1567 (see page 29 ).
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

I have a head for things like chess and puzzles, and I used to reckon myself pretty good at finding out cyphers.
— from The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

In fact, the total of our complexes, which, regarded as a whole and in view of their reaction to the environment, their behavior under the various conditions of social life, their aptitudes, feeling-tones, "habits," and faculties, we term character and personality, are in large part predetermined by the mental experiences of the past and the vestiges of memory which have been left as residual from these experiences.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

I mingled freely with the members of the Board of Supervisors, and with the people of Rapides Parish generally, keeping aloof from all cliques and parties, and I certainly hoped that the threatened storm would blow over, as had so often occurred before, after similar threats.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

For example, if I observe that a piece of wax melts, I can cognize a priori that there must have been something (the sun’s heat) preceding, which this law; although, without the aid of experience, I could not cognize a priori and in a determinate manner either the cause from the effect, or the effect from the cause.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

For example, if you fall over a cliff, you move under the influence of gravitation, and your centre of gravity describes just as correct a parabola as if you were already dead.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

I Origins and Biological Considerations 3 II Unconscious Motives, the Reversion Theories of War, and the Intoxication Motive 17 III Instincts in War: Fear, Hate, the Aggressive Impulse, Motives of Combat and Destruction, the Social Instinct 38 IV Aesthetic Elements in the Moods and Impulses of War 70 V Patriotism, Nationalism and National Honor 78 VI "Causes" as Principles and Issues in War 97 VII Philosophical Influences 110 VIII Religious and Moral Influences 117 IX Economic Factors and Motives 128 X Political and Historical Factors 142 XI
— from The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History by G. E. (George Everett) Partridge

The building was in the old Tudor style, and one of its peculiarities was that every part of it was laden with ornament: it seemed to have been the great ambition of the architect who designed it to introduce as much carving as possible about it.
— from The Shadow of a Sin by Charlotte M. Brame

In my time a cow hath risen from foure nobles to foure marks by this means, which notwithstanding were no great price if they did yearelie bring foorth more than one calfe a péece, as I heare they doo in other countries.
— from Chronicles (1 of 6): The Description of Britaine by William Harrison

Paine was vehement in his arraignment of Church and Priesthood, and it was fair enough for them to strike back with animadversions on Deism and Infidelity.
— from The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. 2. (of 2) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England by Moncure Daniel Conway

As a matter of fact, Ladysmith was chosen, a place almost indefensible itself, as it is dominated by high hills in at least two directions.
— from The Great Boer War by Arthur Conan Doyle

No separate plant is required for concentration and purification, as in the older process.
— from Acids, Alkalis and Salts by George Henry Joseph Adlam

“So that if we examine the beauties of this figure thoroughly we may reasonably conclude, [Pg 299] that what has been hitherto thought so unaccountably excellent in its general appearance, has been owing to what has seemed a blemish in a part of it: but let us endeavor to make this matter as clear as possible, as it may add more force to what has been said.
— from Beauty: Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman by Alexander Walker

She then took her children and went to the Mohawk river, where they planted corn and potatoes; and in the fall the commander of the British forces at Niagara, hearing of their destitute situation, sent a party with some Indians to bring them in.
— from The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816 by Egerton Ryerson

Of Northern Buddhism (Lamaism) the “Encyclopedia Britannica” says: “Lamaism, with its shaven priests, its bells and rosaries, its images and holy water, its popes and bishops, its abbots and monks of many grades, its processions and feast days, its confessional and purgatory, and its worship of the double Virgin, so strongly resembles Romanism that the first Catholic missionaries thought it must be an imitation by the devil of the religion [ 510 ] of Christ.”
— from The Christ: A Critical Review and Analysis of the Evidences of His Existence by John E. (John Eleazer) Remsburg