You who, as a picture of voluptuous joys, see only the happy lovers immersed in pleasure, your picture is very imperfect; you have only its grosser part, the sweetest charms of pleasure are not there.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The speculators in Russian rubles who lied on the Paris Bourse about the capture of Petrograd are not the only example of their species.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

how certain and final!) Of the President with pale face asking secretly to himself, What will the people say at last? Of the frivolous Judge—of the corrupt Congressman, Governor, Mayor—of such as these standing helpless and exposed, Of the mumbling and screaming priest, (soon, soon deserted,) Of the lessening year by year of venerableness, and of the dicta of officers, statutes, pulpits, schools, Of the rising forever taller and stronger and broader of the intuitions of men and women, and of Self-esteem and Personality; Of the true New World—of the Democracies resplendent en-masse, Of the conformity of politics, armies, navies, to them, Of the shining sun by them—of the inherent light, greater than the rest, Of the envelopment of all by them, and the effusion of all from them.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

The mingling of thought with thought, the contact of mind with mind, develops new powers, as the mixing of two chemicals often produces a new third substance.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Friedrich's purposes, at Chlum or previously, are not towards conquests in Bohemia, nor of fighting farther, if he can help it.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15 by Thomas Carlyle

Calculating that there are only fifty street piemen plying their trade in London, the year through, and that their average earnings are 8 s. a week, we find a street expenditure exceeding 1,040 l. , and a street consumption of pies amounting nearly to three quarters of a million yearly.
— from London Labour and the London Poor (Vol. 1 of 4) by Henry Mayhew

Where a person of integrity is represented as suffering to the end under misfortunes purely accidental, we depart discontented, and with some obscure sense of injustice; for seldom is man so submissive to the course of Providence, as not to revolt against the tyranny and vexations of blind chance: he will be inclined to say, This ought not to be.
— from Elements of Criticism, Volume III. by Kames, Henry Home, Lord

The Church and the clergy, the lower orders, the women and the children, shared to the full in the religious enthusiasm, which, in the case of princes and nobles, took the form of an intense desire to engage personally in the holy war, in order to crush the infidels, and at the same time to signalize themselves by gallant feats of arms.
— from Outlines of Universal History, Designed as a Text-book and for Private Reading by George Park Fisher

The demonstration work and [Pg 243] coöperative organizations produce a new type of leader, for he must be one who is successful in his own farm business and who understands the better methods of agricultural production and marketing if he is to be able to interest others in them and to wisely guide the policies of his group.
— from The Farmer and His Community by Dwight Sanderson

These five papers, some of which are nearly finished, and the others in course of preparation, are not to be published before the death of those eminent personages who are mentioned therein.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

Give the boat at least three good coats of paint and nail the two extra gunwale strips on the outside of the canvas for guards.
— from Boat-Building and Boating by Daniel Carter Beard

Magnesia also is interesting, because it is the seat of the great Carasman, Oglû Pascha, a name to which are attached little less than royal honours.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 by Various

The one reward of service was the chance of plunder, and naturally, then, as soon as the fighting with the Nawab had stopped for a time, the desertions from the British forces were numerous.
— from Three Frenchmen in Bengal The Commercial Ruin of the French Settlements in 1757 by Samuel Charles Hill