Spices cause hot and head melancholy, and are for that cause forbidden by our physicians to such men as are inclined to this malady, as pepper, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, mace, dates, &c. honey and sugar.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
Other good rules and precepts are enjoined by our physicians, which, if not alone, yet certainly conjoined, may do much; the first of which is obstare principiis , to withstand the beginning, [5634] Quisquis in primo obstitit, Pepulitque amorem tutus ac victor fuit , he that will but resist at first, may easily be a conqueror at the last.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
“O pour le coup,” cried Madame Duval, “this is too much!
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney
Tenía Jacintito semblante agraciado y carilleno, con mejillas de rosa como una muchacha, y era rechoncho de cuerpo, de estatura pequeña, tirando un poco a pequeñísima, y sin más pelo de barba que el suave bozo que lo 5 anunciaba.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós
And who could tell whether, in that congregated caravan, Moby Dick himself might not temporarily be swimming, like the worshipped white-elephant in the coronation procession of the Siamese!
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville
But if a serious question of conduct is raised, I cannot conceive myself deciding it morally by any comparison of motives below the highest: it seems to me that the question must inevitably be carried up for decision into the court of whatever motive we regard as supremely regulative: so that the comparison ultimately decisive would be not between the lower motives primarily conflicting, but between the effects of the different lines of conduct to which these lower motives respectively prompt, considered in relation to whatever we regard as the ultimate end or ends of reasonable action.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick
"Crimes!" cried Madame d'Harville, in alarm; "can it be possible, the man whom Madame Roland so highly extolled, and into whose hands my poor mother was delivered, was guilty of crimes?
— from The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 2 of 6 by Eugène Sue
Prince de, ii. 152 Condé, Charlotte Marguerite de Montmorency, Princesse de, ii. 152; vi. 77 Condé, Louis II.
— from The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England. volume 3 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 3 by Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de
“They may not be children,” commenced Mrs. Dagon, in the most implacable tone, “but they are both fools.
— from Trumps by George William Curtis
I shan't catch no fever—I'm too old for changing colour, my dear.
— from Mattie:—A Stray (Vol 2 of 3) by F. W. (Frederick William) Robinson
We resemble not the celebrated comedian, Mademoiselle Duclos, to whom somebody said: "I would lay a wager, mademoiselle, that you know not your credo!"
— from A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 by Voltaire
If the angel of death were to come, he would find me ready in feelings—the mowing-blade of Time could cut me down and swing me off without a pang.
— from Petals Plucked from Sunny Climes by A. M. (Abbie M.) Brooks
I heard shouts of “Murderers,” “Hangmen” and the children crying, “Mama, don’t leave me.”
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 7 by Various
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