OF THE ENDS OR RESOLUTIONS OF DISCOURSE Judgement, or Sentence Final; Doubt Science Opinion Conscience Beliefe Faith CHAPTER VIII.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Cf. Baudelaire: “Fourmillante cité, cité; pleine de rêves, Où le spectre en plein jour raccroche le passant.” 63.
— from The Waste Land by T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

We ought to have said 'paths left in the hemispherical cortex by former currents,' and nothing more.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Sir Vavasour was more than middle aged, comely, very gentlemanlike, but with an air occasionally of absence which hardly agreed with his frank and somewhat hearty idiosyncracy; his clear brow, florid complexion, and blue eye.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

The 2 d Day of August, in the fifth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George, &c. By Force of Arms upon the High-Sea, in a certain Place called Cape James, &c. did pyratically, and felloniously set upon, break, board, and enter, a certain Merchant Sloop, called the Frances, Peter Manwaring Commander, by Force , &c. upon the High-Sea, in a certain Place, called Cape James, alias Cape Inlopen, about two Miles distant from the Shore, in the Lattitude of 39, or thereabouts; and within the Jurisdiction of the Court of Vice-Admiralty, of South-Carolina, being a Sloop of certain Persons , ( to the Jurors, unknown ) and then, and there, pyratically, and felloniously did make an Assault, in, and upon the said Peter Manwaring, and others his Mariners , ( whose Names to the Jurors aforesaid, are unknown,) in the same Sloop, against the Peace of God, and of our said now Sovereign Lord the King, then, and there being, pyratically and felloniously, did put the aforesaid Peter Manwaring, and others, his Mariners, of the same Sloop, in the Sloop aforesaid, then being, in corporal Fear of their Lives, then and there, in the Sloop aforesaid, upon the High-Sea, in the Place aforesaid, called Cape James, alias Cape Inlopen, about two Miles from the Shore, in the Lattitude of 39, or thereabouts, as aforesaid, and within the Jurisdiction aforesaid; pyratically, and felloniously, did steal, take, and carry away the said Merchant Sloop, called the Frances, and also twenty six Hogsheads , &c. &c. &c. being found in the aforesaid Sloop, in the Custody and Possession of the said Peter Manwaring, and others, his Mariners of the said Sloop, and from their Custody and Possession, then and there, upon the High-Sea aforesaid, called Cape James, alias Cape Inlopen, as aforesaid, and within the Jurisdiction aforesaid, against the Peace of our now Sovereign Lord the King, his Crown and Dignity .
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

[sauté] COOKED BRAINS, FINELY CUT MEAT [2] 3 [204] RAW EGGS, BROTH TO TASTE.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

Under this plan, the committee has distributed 50,000 transparent signs for dealers' windows, and 5,000 bronze coffee-club buttons for coffee salesmen.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

But what shall we say of him who takes the life which is dearest to him, that is to say, his own; and this not from any disgrace or calamity, but from cowardice and indolence?
— from Laws by Plato

By the time Sixth Avenue is crossed brick frequently come into use in place of brownstone, and there are not only doctors' signs now, but "Robes et Manteaux" are announced, or sometimes, as on that ugly iron balcony, merely Madame somebody.
— from New York Sketches by Jesse Lynch Williams

Rubeola , Morbilli , L. This very common disease is characterised by feverishness, chilliness, shivering, head-pains, 0285.png swelling and inflammation of the eyes, shedding of sharp tears, with painful sensibility to light, oppressive cough, difficulty of breathing, and sometimes vomiting or diarrhœa.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

When, in the above announcement, Rossini speaks of "new situations for the musical pieces which are required by the modern theatrical taste, entirely changed since the time of Paisiello;" and again of the necessity of introducing choruses, "both for conformity with modern usage and because they are indispensable for musical effect in so vast a theatre," he describes changes which he himself introduced.
— from The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School by H. Sutherland (Henry Sutherland) Edwards

The Reformers were divided upon the subject, Queen Elizabeth expressing herself as being perfectly satisfied if in each county three or four clergymen could be found capable of page 55 p.
— from The Annals of Willenhall by Frederick William Hackwood

What about Lady May Penrose? I have not seen her since I came back from Cowes, the day before yesterday, and we leave London together on Tuesday.”
— from Checkmate by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Rembrandt never worked better, and one cannot but feel convinced, in regarding the result, that, to both artist and sitter, the work was a labour of love, and the sittings periods of mutual enjoyment.
— from Rembrandt van Rijn by Malcolm Bell

De V. S. R{ma] comme bonne fille, Crestienne .
— from Christina of Denmark, Duchess of Milan and Lorraine, 1522-1590 by Julia Cartwright

"I was a young man then," he said; "and, owing to the policy of preventing communication between free colored people and slaves, I had little opportunity of ascertaining how the slaves felt about it.
— from Black Rebellion: Five Slave Revolts by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

I presume that the object of gaining long periods of time instead of days in reading the Mosaic record, is to assume that the narrative means to describe the actual production on the earth of all that was created; in other words, to assume a particular meaning for the words "created," "brought forth," &c and then to make out that if a whole age is granted, Science will allow us a sequence of a "plant age" a "fish and saurian age," a "bird age," and a "mammalian age";—that is, in general terms and neglecting minor forms of life.
— from Creation and Its Records A Brief Statement of Christian Belief with Reference to Modern Facts and Ancient Scripture by B. H. (Baden Henry) Baden-Powell