The physical condition in the nerve-tissue of this primary memory is called by Richet 'elementary memory.'
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

He was conducted to a palace in the suburbs, where the general Barbatio, with a select band of soldiers, who could neither be moved by pity, nor corrupted by rewards, expected the arrival of his illustrious victim.
— 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

She sometimes lost patience and said: “Come, come, be reasonable; eat and let me eat.”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

You'll have to take me on trust for the night, and tomorrow you'll get proof of the corpse business right enough.'
— from The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

At first I was most enthusiastic in its support, and I never dreamed that any grave objections could be raised except indeed by those who are hostile to Teacher, but now, after thinking most SERIOUSLY and consulting my friends, I have decided that—'s plan is by no means feasible.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

"The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will," said Mill, "is to prevent harm to others.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

With a little practice it can be read easily.
— from Glacier National Park [Montana] by United States. Department of the Interior

After this Tissaphernes said: "And now I go back to the king; as soon as I have transacted what I have a mind to, I will come back, ready equipped, to lead you away to Hellas, and to return myself to my own dominion.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

It may, however, be said that an act cannot be right, even when the intention is such as duty would prescribe, if it be done from a bad motive: that—to take a case suggested by Bentham—a man who prosecutes from malice a person whom he believes to be guilty, does not really act rightly; for, though it may be his duty to prosecute, he ought not to do it from malice.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Each of these divisions represents the thousandth part of a minute, while the clock can be read easily to half-thousandths of a minute.
— from Practical Cinematography and Its Applications by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot

So much accustomed to consider themselves invested with the exercise of a power which, in any case, can be rightfully exercised by only the whole people, have local assemblages got to be, that they often run into illegal excesses, fancying even their little fragment of the body politic infallible, as well as omnipotent, in such matters at least.
— from The Chainbearer; Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper

It can be reached easily from either the Nicollet Avenue or the Fourth Avenue car line.
— from Handbook of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts With 143 Illustrations by Harry B. (Harry Brandeis) Wehle

Young Deliverers of Pleasant Cove By Rev. Elijah Kellogg 49.
— from Freaks of Fortune; or, Half Round the World by Oliver Optic

SatCom could be rebuilt, everything.
— from Project Cyclops by Thomas Hoover

Yet it is difficult to see how the position can be readjusted except by a lowering of the standard of consumption in France, which, even if it is only temporary, will provoke a great deal of discontent.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

There are a multitude of books, pamphlets, periodicals, and newspapers, in circulation at the present day, which cannot be read, especially by the young, without great injury, both to the mind and heart.
— from How to Be a Man A Book for Boys, Containing Useful Hints on the Formation of Character by Harvey Newcomb

'Let a faithful account of the expenses of collection be rendered every four months to our office [854] , that, all error and obscurity being removed, truth may be manifest in the public accounts.
— from The Letters of Cassiodorus Being a Condensed Translation of the Variae Epistolae of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator by Senator Cassiodorus