I wish'd to live without committing any fault at any time; I would conquer all that either natural inclination, custom, or company might lead me into.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

Many of its passages are more like poetry than prose; and one cannot read such chapters as "The Everlasting No," "The Everlasting Yea," "Reminiscences," and "Natural Supernaturalism," and be quite the same man afterwards; for Carlyle's thought has entered into him, and he walks henceforth more gently, more reverently through the world, as in the presence of the Eternal.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

I do profess to be no less than I seem; to serve him truly that will put me in trust; to love him that is honest; to converse with him that is wise and says little; to fear judgement; to fight when I cannot choose; and to eat no fish.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

From Persia all other countries have drawn their knowledge and inspiration, and however much they may have endeavoured to create and to evolve new figures and new designs, even the oldest examples of their art must concede something to Persian influence.
— from The Oriental Rug A Monograph on Eastern Rugs and Carpets, Saddle-Bags, Mats & Pillows, with a Consideration of Kinds and Classes, Types, Borders, Figures, Dyes, Symbols, etc. Together with Some Practical Advice to Collectors. by William De Lancey Ellwanger

The prince knew that if he called at the Epanchins’ now he would only find the general, and that the latter might probably carry him straight off to Pavlofsk with him; whereas there was one visit he was most anxious to make without delay.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Al′bion (Celtic Albainn ), the earliest name by which the island of Great Britain was known, employed already by writers of the sixth century B.C. , who speak not of Britannia but of the land of the Albiones, and in poetry still used for Great Britain.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

He pitched a camp against the enemy near Centuripa, and drew up his line resting on the River Cyamosorus.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

I said I felt sure then that he was on his way back to his own country, and that even now, when I passed his grave, I always thought of him as being among the woods and fields that were so dear to him.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

In the lines of Aneurin, the thing selected for special notice is the excess of stripe; and therefore, whether it was the invention of Dinogad, or whether he borrowed the idea from the Scots or Picts when he was at Dumbarton in 577, it is quite clear, from the repetition of the word vreith , that his kilt had the attribute of stripyness to a greater extent than was usually the case; while it is also equally clear, that amongst the Britons of that period, kilts of a stripy character were so common as to excite no surprise.
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 97, September 6, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

He had gone through Bishop Warburton's Divine Legation, and Paley's Evidences; but had never read the New Testament consecutively, and the Epistles not at all. {242} APHORISM.
— from Aids to Reflection; and, The Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Bohemia is commonly assumed to exist now in the midst of this commercial day.
— from Vie de Bohème: A Patch of Romantic Paris by Orlo Williams

I refer to those cases, more common perhaps than is generally admitted, in which pains in the extremities, often quite resembling neuralgia in their intermittence, are either superadded to or take the place of the muscular tremors and general restlessness that are more popularly considered as the essential nervous phenomena of chronic alcoholic poisoning.
— from Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Francis Edmund Anstie

While the chiefs of the Marquesas and Hawaii are said to recall the names of their ancestors for seventy-three generations, [1] the chiefs of Mbau cannot give the name of any of their predecessors before Nailatikau, who reigned during the last quarter of the eighteenth century, and the earliest name recalled by other tribes of longer memory is only the sixth generation from the reigning chief.
— from The Fijians: A Study of the Decay of Custom by Basil Thomson

And there was a long jagged crack in the stone, like the black line you know one sees after lightning, I mean it’s as clear as that even now, in memory.
— from The Return by Walter De la Mare

Neatness has a moral significance not to be despised, for though it is true that the dress is an index of the character, and that external neatness habitually covering untidy underclothing, is only typical of some moral unsoundness, it is equally true that there is an influence in the other direction, from the external, inwards.
— from The Education of American Girls by Anna C. (Anna Callender) Brackett

Judging from the number of titled names attached to his work as subscribers, the British aristocracy were, in his time, much given to the game, but "nous avons changé tout cela," and the English nobility
— from The Exploits and Triumphs, in Europe, of Paul Morphy, the Chess Champion by Frederick Milnes Edge

I assured him that the Government would have been happy to be able to consult the country, and that even now there was no greater nor more pressing desire; but how was it to be effected?
— from A Diplomat's Memoir of 1870 being the account of a balloon escape from the siege of Paris and a political mission to London and Vienna by Frederic Reitlinger

Adam Rechenberg's edition "with an appendix in three parts and new indices" ( cum appendice tripartita et novis indicibus ) saw five editions—1678, 1698, 1712, 1725, 1742.
— from Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by F. (Friedrich) Bente