When he had finished writing he said in Italian that M. de Bernis had told him of some circumstances of my escape, and he added, “Tell me how you succeeded.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

2 In all its essential points, this book (1886) is a criticism of modernity, embracing the modern sciences, arts, even politics, together with certain indications as to a type which would be the reverse of modern man, or as little like him as possible, a noble and yea-saying type.
— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

[ Angrily .] Decline a seat in the Cabinet, and retire from public life? Never heard such damned nonsense in the whole course of my existence.
— from An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde

By METHOD AND DISCIPLINE are to be understood the marshaling of the army in its proper subdivisions, the graduations of rank among the officers, the maintenance of roads by which supplies may reach the army, and the control of military expenditure. 11.
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi

But it comes over me every now
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

In 1557 appeared probably the first printed collection of miscellaneous English poems, known as Tottel's Miscellany .
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

] I should not speak so boldly, if it were my due to be believed; and so I told a great man, who complained of the tartness and contentiousness of my exhortations.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

[63] As this supervision of the whole legislature was found unwieldy in practice, it was superseded, after various modifications by a commission of members elected from each one of the four estates, empowered to sit every year in Saragossa, with authority to investigate the charges preferred against the Justice, and to pronounce sentence upon him.
— from The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1 by William Hickling Prescott

I have been furnished by a distinguished friend with the following, among other Notes, corroborative of my explanation of eisell : "I have found no better recipe for making wormwood wine than that given by old Langham in his Garden of Health ; and as he directs its use to be confined to 'Streine out a little spoonful, and drinke it with a draught of ale or wine,' I think it must have been so atrociously unpalatable, that to drink it up , as Hamlet challenged Laertes to do, would have been as strong an argumentum ad stomachum as to digest a crocodile, even when appetised by a slice of the loaf."
— from Notes and Queries, Number 50, October 12, 1850 by Various

By August 2d, Zanja No. 2 was completed; and this brought about the building of the Aliso Mill and the further cultivation of much excellent land.
— from Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853-1913 Containing the Reminiscences of Harris Newmark by Harris Newmark

Heroic conduct of Madame Elizabeth.
— from The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Horace Walpole

Perhaps, however, the extreme difference between the fundamental conceptions of Mr. Emerson and the endemic orthodoxy of that place and time was too great for any hostile feeling to be awakened by the sweet-voiced and peaceful-mannered speaker.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

And there is no better reason for preferring this elderberry bush than that it stirs an early memory; that it is no novelty in my life, speaking to me merely through my present sensibilities to form and color, but the long companion of my existence, that wove itself into my joys when joys were vivid.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

This momentous act accomplished, I left the palace and returned to the yacht, feeling that, although I had not so far made any very important headway in the conduct of my enterprise, I had at least set the machinery in motion.
— from The Kidnapped President by Guy Boothby

It's not convenient for anyone to call on me either.
— from The Spy: The Story of a Superfluous Man by Maksim Gorky

How long, and with what other precautions, I have suggested, without dictating, at the close of my Essay.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes