ies in speaking of his love for Laura, whom he loved as every man loves the woman with whom he is taken; and if Laura had not contented her illustrious lover, he would not have celebrated her.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

This Phanes, having (as we may suppose) some quarrel with Amasis, fled away from Egypt in a ship, desiring to come to speech with Cambyses: and as he was of no small repute among the mercenaries and was very closely acquainted with all the affairs of Egypt, Amasis pursued him and considered it a matter of some moment to capture him: and he pursued by sending after him the most trusted of his eunuchs with a trireme, who captured him in Lykia; but having captured him he did not bring him back to Egypt, since Phanes got the better of him by cunning; for he made his guards drunk and escaped to Persia.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

Such then was the advent of the coffee house in London, which introduced to English-speaking people the drink of democracy.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Like Cephalus, he is limited in his point of view, and represents the proverbial stage of morality which has rules of life rather than principles; and he quotes Simonides (cp.
— from The Republic by Plato

It was patterned after Lloyd's of London, and was the center of marine intelligence in Boston Like Lloyd's coffee house in London, the Exchange was the center of marine intelligence, and its public rooms were thronged all day and evening with mariners, naval officers, ship and insurance brokers, who had come to talk shop or to consult the records of ship arrivals and departures, manifests, charters, and other marine papers.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

The very big canoes are in some cases housed in large sheds (see Plate XXII ), which are by far the largest buildings erected by the Trobrianders.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Published “The Philippines A Century Hence” in La Solidaridad , a Filipino fortnightly review, first of Barcelona and later of Madrid.
— from Rizal's own story of his life by José Rizal

He is cunnin, he is long-heded, he is deep—he is grate.
— from The Complete Works of Artemus Ward (HTML edition) by Artemus Ward

Wherefore, upon such as come hereabouts, I levy a certain toll, which I use for a better purpose, I hope, than to make candlesticks withal.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

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— from Harper's Young People, March 22, 1881 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

Its cardinal weakness is to let belief follow recklessly upon lively conception, especially when the conception has instinctive liking at its back.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

But as he ran, instead of cursing his ill luck, the Khoja gave thanks for his good fortune.
— from Miscellanea by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing

As soon as I came here I laid the matter before the President and Congress in two long reports, but Congress could not decide till the beginning of 1792, and then clogged their ransom by a previous requisition of peace.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 3 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson