This seems to be confirmed by a fact immediately preceding his death; for though he declared Augustus heir to his whole estate, he was not able, on account of weakness, to put his signature to the will; a failure which it is probable that he would have taken care to obviate, had his death been premeditated.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

But the release of the prisoners from chains, and their translation from the shadows to the images and to the light, and the ascent from the underground den to the sun, while in his presence they are vainly trying to look on animals and plants and the light of the sun, but are able to perceive even with their weak eyes the images in the water (which are divine), and are the shadows of true existence (not shadows of images cast by a light of fire, which compared with the sun is only an image)—this power of elevating the highest principle in the soul to the contemplation of that which is best in existence, with which we may compare the raising of that faculty which is the very light of the body to the sight of that which is brightest in the material and visible world—this power is given, as I was saying, by all that study and pursuit of the arts which has been described.
— from The Republic by Plato

He is said to have taken the child and said to those present, "A king is born to you, O Spartans," and to have laid him down in the royal seat and named him Charilaus, because all men were full of joy admiring his spirit and justice.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

I was running from him, and he said, Come back, when I bid you.—So, knowing every place was alike dangerous to me, and I had nobody to run to, I came back, at his call; and seeing him look displeased, I held my hands together, and wept, and said, Pray, sir, forgive me.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

At first he boldly affirmed that “pleasant feelings are not quantities that can be added,” [112] apparently because “each is over before the other begins.”
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

He would have two Controllers to do his work and two Surveyors, whereof one of each to take it by turns to reside at Portsmouth and Chatham by a kind of rotation; he would have but only one Clerk of the Acts.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Such a collectivity becomes a crowd in the sociological sense only when a condition of rapport has been established among the individuals who compose it.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

A ghost could not have been taken and hanged on my account, and the consideration that he could be, and the dread that he would be, were no small addition to my horrors.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

If I invite a person to tell me what occurs to him in relation to some certain element of his dream I am asking him to abandon himself to free association, controlled by a given premise .
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

We shall therefore exhibit a few instances of this mode of rendering Irish names respectable-looking by giving them a foreign aspect, which the bearers cannot by any effort give their own faces.
— from The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 51, June 19, 1841 by Various

The chiffonniers of Paris can boast a history.
— from Old and New Paris: Its History, Its People, and Its Places, v. 1 by H. Sutherland (Henry Sutherland) Edwards

As we were observing it a rift opened in the clouds behind; at first we had merely a fleeting glimpse of some mountain evidently much more distant, then a larger and clearer view revealed a recognizable form; it was Makalu appearing just where it should be according to our calculations with map and compass.
— from Mount Everest, the Reconnaissance, 1921 by A. F. R. (Alexander Frederick Richmond) Wollaston

By day the outpost will stack arms and the articles of equipment, except the cartridge belt and canteen, will be placed by the arms.
— from Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition by James A. (James Alfred) Moss

Red Wull asks nothing better than meeting them all; and the unequal combat becomes a frightful carnage.
— from Essays on Modern Novelists by William Lyon Phelps

It is not only a child, but a child of the Black Forest, uttering its hopes, its anxieties, and its joys in the familiar dialect.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 54, April, 1862 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

Mobile was stagnant commercially, business at a stand-still, many stores closed, and all looked gloomy.
— from Thirteen Months in the Rebel Army Being a Narrative of Personal Adventures in the Infantry, Ordnance, Cavalry, Courier, and Hospital Services; With an Exhibition of the Power, Purposes, Earnestness, Military Despotism, and Demoralization of the South by William G. Stevenson

“No, no; never shed blood as long as it can be avoided,” answered Cousin Silas.
— from A Voyage round the World A book for boys by William Henry Giles Kingston

Still here it is, on the route from Grenoble to Gap by the famous Col. Bayard, also celebrated in history, almost as much so as the famous Breche de Roland in the Pyrenees.
— from Castles and Chateaux of Old Burgundy by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield