The novel of Italian life, Romola (1862-1863), marks a transition to the third group, which includes three more novels,-- Felix Holt (1866), Middlemarch (1871-1872), Daniel Deronda (1876), the ambitious dramatic poem The Spanish Gypsy (1868), and a collection of miscellaneous essays called The Impressions of Theophrastus Such (1879).
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

I did this in order that by knowing whence they originated, I might determine their use with safety, and also have the unanticipated but invaluable advantage of knowing the completeness of my enumeration, classification and specification of concepts a priori , and therefore according to principles.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

“Oh how I wish that this enemy who is the cause of my enforced continence could be mollified,” (I cried, with many a groan,)
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

And in consequence of my enormous circulation about the world, I may say I have seen more than many another has dreamed of.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

While I was there Tsumagi Nakadzukasa, who had given me a dinner a couple of months earlier, came in.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

I mean then, is it really possible for a person to be unjustly dealt with with his own consent, or must every case of being unjustly dealt with be against the will of the sufferer as every act of unjust dealing is voluntary?
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

The southern portion of Mr. McGill's park-lot has, in the course of modern events, come to be assigned to religious uses.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

Such were the unusually fortunate circumstances of my early childhood.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

Your very friendly letter of the 27th of last month has afforded me much more satisfaction than all the formal compliments and empty ceremonies of mere etiquette could possibly have done.
— from American Historical and Literary Curiosities: Second Series, Complete by J. Jay (John Jay) Smith

I remained alone in a miserable room in which all his family, sleeping together in a large, ill-looking bed, were staring at me in consequence of my extraordinary costume.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

In the Latin poets Elysium is part of the lower world, and the residence of the shades of the blessed Embla, the first woman Enseladus, giant defeated by Jupiter Endymion, a beautiful youth beloved by Diana Enid, wife of Geraint Enna, vale of home of Proserpine Enoch, the patriarch Epidaurus, a town in Argolis, on the Saronic gulf, chief seat of the worship of Aeculapius, whose temple was situated near the town Epimetheus, son of Iapetus, husband of Pandora, with his brother Prometheus took part in creation of man Epirus, country to the west of Thessaly, lying along the Adriatic Sea Epopeus, a sailor Erato, one of the Muses Erbin of Cornwall, father of Geraint Erebus, son of Chaos, region of darkness, entrance to Hades Eridanus, river Erinys, one of the Furies Eriphyle, sister of Polynices, bribed to decide on war, in which her husband was slain Eris (Discordia), goddess of discord.
— from The Age of Chivalry by Thomas Bulfinch

22:140 Ap 15 ‘17 430w “No clearer or more eloquent condemnation of the German treatment of Belgium has been written than this neutral book, which deserves reading.”
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

He looked upon himself in the light of "an agent whom fortune had enabled to open the path," and he felt "if a case of misery ever called for help, it is here, and the act of humanity which redeems the Dayak race
— from A History of Sarawak under Its Two White Rajahs 1839-1908 by C. A. Bampfylde

But in the case of man, every circumstance is inquired into.
— from The Prehistoric World; Or, Vanished Races by Emory Adams Allen

What nobler conception of mortal existence can we form?
— from Lectures Delivered in America in 1874 by Charles Kingsley