The easiest solution that they could think of was to organize their whole population, men, women, and children, into bands of robbers.
— from Nationalism by Rabindranath Tagore

Yet life can never contradict its basis or reach satisfactions essentially excluded by its own conditions.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

It frequently happens that a villainous action does not torment us at the instant we commit it, but on recollection, and sometimes even after a number of years have elapsed, for the remembrance of crimes is not to be extinguished.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

He is very often represented in pictures clothed in blue official robes, leading his small son Kuo Ai to Court.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

In this seminal principle of every substance, there seems to be, as it were, the beginning of everything which does not yet exist, or rather does not appear, but which in process of time will come into being, or rather into sight.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

That the nebbe of Beans and Pease do all [185] look downward, and so presse not upon each other; And how the seeds of many pappous or downy flowers lockt up in sockets after a gomphosis or mortis -articulation, diffuse themselves circularly into branches of rare order, observable in Tragopogan or Goats-beard, conformable to the Spiders web, and the Radii in like manner telarely inter-woven.
— from The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Volume 3 by Browne, Thomas, Sir

For him was lever have at his beddes heed Twenty bokes, clad in blak or reed, Of Aristotle and his philosophye, Than robes riche, or fithele, or gay sautrye.
— from South London by Walter Besant

When a man, at the risk of his own life, saves another from drowning, or, at a similar risk, protects his comrade in battle, or, rushing into the midst of a fire, attempts to rescue the helpless victims, surely the feeling of the bystanders is that of admiration, and not of pity or contempt.
— from Progressive Morality: An Essay in Ethics by Thomas Fowler

Cœlestine I., Bishop of Rome, § 46,
— from Church History, Volume 3 (of 3) by J. H. (Johann Heinrich) Kurtz

In view of such extensive labours, we might almost imagine ourselves transported back to the times when Chaucer could describe a student as being made perfectly happy by having ‘At his beddes hed Twenty bookes clothed in blake or red Of Aristotle and his philosophie.’
— from The Greek Philosophers, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Alfred William Benn

Every now and then they stop throwing crabs into baskets or retrieving halibut from the floor, and make little entries in long note-books.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, June 16, 1920 by Various

A pair of Rooks, after an unsuccessful attempt to establish themselves in a rookery at no great distance from the Exchange, were compelled to abandon the attempt, and take refuge on the spire of that building; and, though constantly interrupted by other Rooks, they built their nest on the top of the vane , and reared their young ones, undisturbed by the noise of the populace below.
— from Mrs. Loudon's Entertaining Naturalist Being popular descriptions, tales, and anecdotes of more than Five Hundred Animals. by Mrs. (Jane) Loudon

There's worth as sure among the poor As e'er adorned the highest station; And minds as just as theirs, we trust, Whose claim is but of rank's creation.
— from Reading Made Easy for Foreigners - Third Reader by John Ludwig Hülshof

The whole church is built of red sandstone, but is whitewashed throughout, and the exterior is much modernized, though the old work is still in part visible.
— from Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain by George Edmund Street