Plotinus, commenting on Plato, repeatedly and strongly asserts that not even the soul which they believe to be the soul of the world, derives its blessedness from any other source than we do, viz.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

The Count of Panago returned, after some days, to Bologna, and Gualtieri, taking Giannucolo from his labour, placed him in such estate as befitted his father-in-law, so that he lived in honour and great solace and so ended his days; whilst he himself, having nobly married his daughter, lived long and happily with Griselda, honouring her as most might be.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

We have no data for the time occupied in the composition of Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes .
— from Milton by Mark Pattison

What two classes of private rights are safeguarded by the Federal Constitution?
— from Problems in American Democracy by Thames Williamson

[199] cool off," proposed Rad after supper.
— from Baseball Joe in the Big League; or, A Young Pitcher's Hardest Struggles by Lester Chadwick

"Oh, I am sorry," Grisel said stiffly, picking a cluster of pink roses and smelling them.
— from Happy House by Hutten zum Stolzenberg, Betsey Riddle, Freifrau von

From poor peat soil, which was growing oats, buckwheat and millet, we passed to land capable of producing rice, and saw ploughing with horses.
— from The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People by J. W. (John William) Robertson Scott

Some years ago it was my privilege to be a member of a class with which Professor Cook Wilson read a portion of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason , and subsequently I have had the advantage of discussing with him several of the more important passages.
— from Kant's Theory of Knowledge by H. A. (Harold Arthur) Prichard

The lagoon was thick with many-tinted wavelets; a continuous roaring of the outer sea overhung the anchorage; and the long, hollow crescent of palm ruffled and sparkled in the wind.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 18 by Robert Louis Stevenson

Is it not curious that the queerest crank of all concerning Adam—that which strives to prove that he was an ourang-outang—should have been reserved for our own days of culture, of philosophical research and science?
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 23, April, 1876-September, 1876. A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various