You and I cannot continue long on our present footing.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

“Now, my darling boy, in this way we can lengthen out our pleasures as long as we please; you can make me spend oftener than yourself, which will satisfy my very lustful nature, and not over exhaust your young powers.”
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

The world is described as developing according to certain laws out of primitive matter ( prakṛiti or pradhāna ).
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; "stupid to the point of sanctity," they say in Russia,—let us be careful lest out of pure honesty we eventually become saints and bores!
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

None of our boys were in the battle—but oh, the casualty list of other people's boys!
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

No impropriations, no lay patrons of church livings, or one private man, but common societies, corporations, &c., and those rectors of benefices to be chosen out of the Universities, examined and approved, as the literati in China.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Time passed until one day the church lacked only one pillar, and worn out by black despair, Esbern sank exhausted upon a bank, whence he heard the troll hammering the last stone in the quarry underground.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

Traces of ancient colour—vermilion and gold—may still be seen in several of the narrow bands: a complete list of other painted work which has been recorded or still exists in the cathedral has been compiled by Mr C. E. Keyser.
— from Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Hereford A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by A. Hugh (Alfred Hugh) Fisher

157 Jewish cultural center moves to, I 159 f Jewish conditions in, described by Solomon Maimon, I 239 f Jews of, barred from Russia, I 243 f; yet penetrate into Moscow, I 245 numbers of Jews in, I 263 f included in Pale (1795), I 317; (1804), I 342; (1835), II 39 [Pg 302] Polish nobility of, advocate Jewish reforms (1800), I 325 f Jews establish woolen mills in, I 363 Jewish agricultural colonies in, II 72 Jews admitted to municipal government in, I 369; but speedily disfranchised, I 370 Jews of, loyal to Russia in Polish insurrections of 1861 and 1863, II 107, 182 f Russian authorities of, believe Brafman's charges against Jews, II 189 pogroms checked in, II 267, 276 Jewish labor movement in, III 55 Jews of, called Litvaks, object of Polish anti-Semitism, III 166 f Jewish communities of, represented on Council of Four Lands, I 110; but later form separate Council (1623), I 112, 193 f, 195 Michael Yosefovich appointed "senior" of Jews of, I 72 Kahals of, granted right of herem (1672), I 190 different intellectual development in, I 221 strong position of Rabbinism and Talmudism in, I 199 f, 221, II 113 Elijah of Vilna, champion of Rabbinism in, see Elijah of Vilna yeshibahs of, adopt method of Elijah of Vilna, I 381 f Messianism preached among Jews of, I 208 Hasidim penetrates into, I 230 ff, 237 type of Hasidism in, I 232
— from History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, Volume 3 [of 3] From the Accession of Nicholas II until the Present Day by Simon Dubnow

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— from Naughty Puppies by Anonymous

Underneath is an inscription to this effect: "The true history and curious legend of our patron Saint Raphael, Archangel, Solicitor of the Plague, and Guardian of the City of Cordova."
— from Wanderings in Spain by Théophile Gautier

Seems Ananias and Sapphira lied; A venial lie, they set a little short The price they had received for certain lands Or other property sold by them late
— from The Epic of Paul by William Cleaver Wilkinson

One of the families with whom Sir Arthur and Lady Vaughan were most intimate was that of old Colonel Lennox, of Oakton Park.
— from The Shadow of a Sin by Charlotte M. Brame

If the colors are on the stacks, the salute will be made on crossing the color line or on passing the colors.
— from Manual for Noncommissioned Officers and Privates of Cavalry of the Army of the United States 1917. To be also used by Engineer Companies (Mounted) for Cavalry Instruction and Training by United States. War Department

In that case, in regard to such causal laws objects of perception will be independent of being perceived.
— from Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell

Practically it should be a continual loss of our [p 20 ] own will in the will of God, a renunciation of all natural inclinations, however good they may appear, in order that we may be left free to choose only as God chooses: we should be indifferent to all things, whether temporal or spiritual, for the body or the soul; leaving the past in forgetfulness, the future to providence, and giving the present to God; contented with the present moment, which brings with it God’s eternal will for us; attributing nothing which happens to us to the creature, but seeing all things in God, and regarding them as coming infallibly from His hand, with the exception only of our own sin.
— from A Short Method Of Prayer by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon