Formal instruction, on the contrary, easily becomes remote and dead—abstract and bookish, to use the ordinary words of depreciation.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

"True, Senor Don Quixote," returned Don Antonio; "for as fire cannot be hidden or kept secret, virtue cannot escape being recognised; and that which is attained by the profession of arms shines distinguished above all others."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

[927] Neither can these persons be said to eat the body of Christ, for they cannot even be reckoned among His members.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Akyab′, a seaport of Lower Burmah, capital of the province of Arracan, at the mouth of the River Kuladan or Akyab, of recent upgrowth, well built, possessing a good harbour, and carrying on an important trade, its chief exports being rice and petroleum.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

For he has the perfectest idea of any of the particular sorts of substances, who has gathered, and put together, most of those simple ideas which do exist in it; among which are to be reckoned its active powers, and passive capacities, which, though not simple ideas, yet in this respect, for brevity’s sake, may conveniently enough be reckoned amongst them.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

Fifthly, when she doth either affect or endeavour anything to no certain end, but rashly and without due ratiocination and consideration, how consequent or inconsequent it is to the common end.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

Carefully controlled experiments by Rivers and Webber
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

On the Ayilyam day, all the serpent gods are taken in procession to the illam (house of the Nampiathy) by the eldest female member of the house, and offerings of neerumpalum (a mixture of rice-flour, turmeric, ghī , water of tender cocoanuts, etc.), boiled rice, and other things, are made to the serpent gods.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

Eadbert, 455 also bishop of that place, took off the thatch, and caused it to be covered entirely, both roof and walls, with plates of lead.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

Every body knows the picture of the Coliseum; every body recognizes at once that “looped and windowed” band-box with a side bitten out.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Upon this the Argives at once joined him, and the citizen of Phlius admitted a Spartan garrison: so that the Achæans seemed to be in danger of losing all their conquests, and Aratus became seriously alarmed at the disturbed condition of the Peloponnesus, for he saw that in every quarter cities, encouraged by revolutionary agitators, were preparing to throw off their allegiance to the league.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 4 (of 4) by Plutarch

Then, in reality, the captive shall cast off the ignominious chain which for ages has bound him; then shall the exile return to that happy home from which he has so long been banished; then shall every debt be canceled, every burden removed, and every tear wiped away.
— from Notes on the Book of Leviticus by Charles Henry Mackintosh

“When we consider,” said the report, “the improved condition and conduct of the working classes in the metropolis, and reflect upon the irrefragable proofs continually before us, that the humbler orders are fast changing their habits, and substituting country excursions by railroad and steamboat, and other innocent recreations, for vicious
— from The Old Showmen and the Old London Fairs by Thomas Frost

A third of the army was in hospital the whole year round, and little more than half the men could ever be returned as fit to march.
— from Free Russia by William Hepworth Dixon

Mere excitement can easily be reduced, and the inflammatory form of fever is decidedly the most easily cured, though in it the excitement is often so great that the organs are very liable to be injured; while the malignant form of fever is by far the most fatal, though in this the excitement is less, and the organs are seldom affected.
— from A System of Midwifery by Edward Rigby

A plan was agreed upon for an entirely new organization of the army, which provided for the enlistment of twenty-six regiments of eight companies each, besides riflemen and artillery.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 1 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing

‘If a strong wind gets up,’ he said, ‘you cannot escape by running away from the fire, because it will travel faster than you.
— from The Life Story of a Black Bear by Harry Perry Robinson

In the meantime General Gaines was re-enforced by Georgia troops, under command of Captains Edward B. Robinson and Bones, the Florida mounted militia, under command of Captain McLemore, and some regulars, under Captains Charles Myron Thruston and Graham, the whole under the command of General Clinch.
— from General Scott by Marcus Joseph Wright

The size and height of the hall are immense, but when after a certain time the scrolls accumulate, they can easily be rolled and raised higher, and with equal facility be lowered when this is requisite.
— from Another World: Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah by Benjamin Lumley

It is only in his capacity of the Genius of the Moon—the latter being credited in the old cosmogony with being the parent of our Earth—that Jehovah could ever be regarded as the Creator of our Globe and its Heaven, namely, the Firmament.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 2 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky