At the same time the confession of a romanticist the sufferer feels the deepest longing for beauty—he begets it ; finally, a product of youth, full of youthful courage and melancholy.
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

It appears as a veritable rag-bag of intellectual odds and ends: the height of a mountain here, the course of a river there, the quantity of shingles produced in this town, the tonnage of the shipping in that, the boundary of a county, the capital of a state.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

The Spoiled American Girl The subject of American manners, as they appear to Europeans, cannot be dismissed without comment on a reprehensible type of American girl who flourishes on shipboard, on tours, and in public places generally—but most particularly in the large and expensive hotels of Continental resorts.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

The next morning when I came out I found a Confederate colonel there, who reported to me and said that he was the proprietor of that house, and that he was a colonel of a regiment that had been raised in that neighborhood.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

The symbol b6 refers to verbs which have no passive other than the local passive and the instrumental passive in the benefactive or temporal meanings ( -i 1 , meanings 3 and 4 ), and, further, the [ xx ] local passive refers to a focus which is the place or the beneficiary of the action ( -an 1 , meaning 1 ), or, in the case of adjectives, refers to a focus which is the person who considered s.o. to be [adjective].
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

This consciousness of my existence in time is, therefore, identical with the consciousness of a relation to something external to me, and it is, therefore, experience, not fiction, sense, not imagination, which inseparably connects the external with my internal sense.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Brought directly, when I escaped from slavery, into contact with a class of abolitionists regarding the [308] constitution as a slaveholding instrument, and finding their views supported by the united and entire history of every department of the government, it is not strange that I assumed the constitution to be just what their interpretation made it.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

She cried out, and ran to him, "Basil!
— from Kildares of Storm by Eleanor Mercein Kelly

I put it to you in full confidence of a response that shall be worthy of our national character, and calculated to increase, rather than diminish, the glory which our ancestors have transmitted to us, and which we ourselves have proudly vindicated in our warfare with the cranes.
— from Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

and read just what you like?" Dolly smiled slightly at the obviousness of the course of action referred to; but the next minute the smile was quenched in a mist of tears, and she hid her head on Mrs. Eberstein's shoulder.
— from The End of a Coil by Susan Warner

Thus, the Gulf of Mexico receiving the sediment of the Mississippi and Rio Grande; 118 the northeast coast of South America receiving the sediments of the Amazons; the east coast of Asia receiving the detritus of the Chinese rivers; are instances of such areas of deposition.
— from The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays by John Joly

"Look at the fence, and when I tap your shoulder, climb over, and run to the house!"
— from Sophia: A Romance by Stanley John Weyman

I had to tell delegates what their papers were to be about, and, when it was necessary to cut out a reference to contraceptives, had to apologize and explain why.
— from Margaret Sanger: an autobiography. by Margaret Sanger

So take off your hat, Parson, and— No you come over and read the Bible to me while the young folks go gadding.
— from Sunny Slopes by Ethel Hueston

"Wonder if she changed off and rode that loose horse," Hawkins said once, when the tracks were plain in the soft soil of the creek bank.
— from The Quirt by B. M. Bower