The wretched condition of most persons physically, morally, and intellectually may be partly accounted for by the fact that marriages are not generally the result of pure choice and inclination, but of all kinds of external considerations and accidental circumstances.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

On Jan. 1st Caesar’s tribune Curio once more presented proposals from Caesar, which startle us by their marvellous moderation (cf.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

This is not amongst your dust-worms alone, poor snakes that will prostitute their souls for money, but with this bait you may catch our most potent, puissant, and illustrious princes.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

As to me, I should be alike unknown in the most conspicuous or most private part of the house.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

“Yes, in our legal practice there was a case almost exactly similar, a case of morbid psychology,” Porfiry went on quickly.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Parisot is of opinion that the copyists, or more probably Pliny himself, has made an error in transcribing Mictis for Vectis, the name of the Isle of Wight.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

"To accept this offer, my dear Esther," said he, sitting down beside me and resuming our conversation, "—once more, pray, pray forgive me; I am deeply grieved—to accept my dearest cousin's offer is, I need not say, impossible.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Jouffroy, Mélanges Philos., 'du Sommeil'; H. Holland, Chapters on Mental Physiol., p. 80; B. Brodie, Psychol.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

It will express vividly what it has perceived in the same fashion: it will create orators, musicians, painters, poets, but never a single philosopher.
— from Man a Machine by Julien Offray de La Mettrie

The conception of mutation periods producing swarms of species from time to time, among which only a few have a chance of survival, promises to become the basis for speculative pedigree-diagrams, as well as for experimental investigations.
— from Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries

My master then quickened the pace of his horse; and as we advanced, the cries of my poor parent became more and more indistinct—at length they died away in the distance, and I never again heard the voice of my poor mother.
— from Fifty Years in Chains; or, the Life of an American Slave by Charles Ball

‘It is that, in consideration of my peculiar position in this county,—O, you can’t understand it!—you will not put an end to the absolute secrecy of our relationship without my full assent.
— from Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy

DINNER Roast chicken Creamed onions Mashed potatoes Pineapple sherbet Bread and butter.
— from Camping For Boys by H. W. (Henry William) Gibson

Wherein we are more particular, both in the affirmative and the negative, to the end that, as on one side we would have nothing pass us to remain upon record which either for the form might not become us or for the substance might cross our many proclamations (pursued with good success) for buildings, or, on the other side, might give them cause to importune us after they had been at charges; to which end we wish that you call them before you and let them know our pleasure and resolution therein.
— from Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration by Joseph Quincy Adams

This is the chronicle of Hermann Gigas based on the well-known chronicle of Martinus Polonus (printed 1750).
— from The Grey Friars in Oxford by A. G. (Andrew George) Little

Every body being seated, I rose to protest most positively against the indecorous manner in which I had been taken away from Longwood, against the illegality of sealing up my papers in my absence, and against the violation about to be committed on my private papers, the sacred depositories of my thoughts, which should exist for me only, and which had remained to this day a secret to all the world.
— from Memoirs of the life, exile, and conversations of the Emperor Napoleon. (Vol. IV) by Las Cases, Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné, comte de