In its lengthening process of growth it can cross other lines and cause entanglements, but will ever go on missing the ideal of completeness in its thinness of isolation.
— from Nationalism by Rabindranath Tagore

The complete process of aesthetic production can be symbolized in four steps, which are: a , impressions; b , expression or spiritual aesthetic synthesis; c , hedonistic accompaniment, or pleasure of the beautiful (aesthetic pleasure); d , translation of the aesthetic fact into physical phenomena (sounds, tones, movements, combinations of lines and colours, etc.).
— from Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Benedetto Croce

Besides his own private establishment, making a numerous train, he was escorted by a splendid company of lords and cavaliers, eager to share with him in the triumphs of the Cross.
— from History of the Reign of Philip the Second King of Spain, Vol. 3 And Biographical & Critical Miscellanies by William Hickling Prescott

At a certain time in the earlier ages there lived in the city of Laodicea a Christian elder of some repute, named Onesiphorus.
— from The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Here, for example, are some of the members of the Council on Foreign Relations who, in 1961, held positions in the United States Government: John F. Kennedy, President; Dean Rusk, Secretary of State; Douglas Dillon, Secretary of the Treasury; Adlai Stevenson, United Nations Ambassador; Allen W. Dulles, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency; Chester Bowles, Under Secretary of State; W. Averell Harriman, Ambassador-at-large; John J. McCloy, Disarmament Administrator; General Lyman L. Lemnitzer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; John Kenneth Galbraith, Ambassador to India; Edward R. Murrow, Head of United States Information Agency; G. Frederick Reinhardt, Ambassador to Italy; David K. E. Bruce, Ambassador to United Kingdom; Livingston T. Merchant, Ambassador to Canada; Lt. Gen. James M. Gavin, Ambassador to France; George F. Kennan, Ambassador to Yugoslavia; Julius C. Holmes, Ambassador to Iran; Arthur H. Dean, head of the United States Delegation to Geneva Disarmament Conference; Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Special White House Assistant; Edwin O. Reischauer, Ambassador to Japan; Thomas K. Finletter, Ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development; George C. McGhee, Assistant Secretary of State for Policy Planning; Henry R. Labouisse, Director of International Cooperation Administration; George W. Ball, Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs; McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant for National Security; Paul H. Nitze, Assistant Secretary of Defense; Adolf A. Berle, Chairman, Inter-Departmental Committee on Latin America; Charles E. Bohlen, Assistant Secretary of State.
— from The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot

They reported disputatious merchants and burgomasters, a wine-flushed three or four from the neighbouring congeries of lawyers, a country esquire, some one who looked pompous and authoritative like a petty magistrate, others less patent,—and the owner of the arm still insolently stretched across his book.
— from The Witch by Mary Johnston

23 History of the American Bison , by Allen, xxv , note History of the Expedition under the Command of Lewis and Clark , ed. by Elliott Coues.
— from The Iowa by Foster, Thomas, of Washington, D.C.

It seems to me that the solution of this puzzle lies in the fact that the conditions of life are comparatively easy in New Zealand.
— from Jungle Folk: Indian Natural History Sketches by Douglas Dewar

Plaster , chloride of lime , alumina ( clay ), etc., are large absorbents of ammonia, whether arising from the fermentation of animal manures or washed down from the atmosphere by rains.
— from The Elements of Agriculture A Book for Young Farmers, with Questions Prepared for the Use of Schools by George E. (George Edwin) Waring

The audacious shrewdness of Lancashire married to the polished grace of Oxford is a felicitous union of the strength and culture of liberal and conservative England; and no party in the House, whatever may be its likings or antipathies, can sit under the spell of Mr. Gladstone's rounded and shining eloquence without a conviction that the man who can talk ‘shop’ like a tenth Muse is, after all, a true representative man of the market of the world.”
— from The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 2 (of 3) 1859-1880 by John Morley

“More recently the Third Presbyterian Church of Los Angeles, Cal., empowered its three deacons to choose three women from the congregation to co-operate with them in their work, granting them seats and votes in the board’s monthly meeting.”
— from Deaconesses in Europe and their Lessons for America by Jane M. (Jane Marie) Bancroft