It is, perhaps, superfluous to remark that, though in the case of the land purchase it might be requisite to raise the whole, or at least some very considerable part of the purchase money before possession would be given of the estate, or operations upon it commenced, yet in regard to public works to be carried out upon the estate, the case is quite different, and it would be by no means necessary or advisable to defer the commencement of operations until the whole sum which might be ultimately required should be raised.
— from Garden Cities of To-Morrow Being the Second Edition of "To-Morrow: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform" by Howard, Ebenezer, Sir

Nature implants instinct where the acting individual is not capable of understanding the end, or would be unwilling to pursue it.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

And he used to be very indignant with those who neglected proper opportunities of applying themselves to learning; and he had a peculiar habit, while conversing, of using the expression, “I think,” and “So and so,” naming the person, “will not agree to this.”
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

Bent with excessive toil—actually suffering for a little refreshing rest, and feeling rather as if we could cast ourselves upon the earth and weep, many a night in the house of Edwin Epps have his unhappy slaves been made to dance and laugh.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

Come, let us get up, and ask God to forgive us the sins we have committed; and we will not come out until the end of the day next to the fortieth.
— from The First Book of Adam and Eve by Rutherford Hayes Platt

Commission'd in alternate watch they stand, The sun's bright portals and the skies command; Close, or unfold, the eternal gates of day Bar heaven with clouds, or roll those clouds away.
— from The Iliad by Homer

This Tyrant at his first entrance here acted and commanded prodigious Slaughters to be perpetrated: Notwithstanding which, the Chief Lord in his Chair or Sedan attended by many Nobles of the City of Ultlatana , the Emporium of the whole Kingdom, together with Trumpets, Drums and great Exultation, went out to meet him, and brought with them all sorts of Food in great abundance, with such things as he stood in most need of.
— from A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies Or, a faithful NARRATIVE OF THE Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Popish Spanish Party on the inhabitants of West-India, TOGETHER With the Devastations of several Kingdoms in America by Fire and Sword, for the space of Forty and Two Years, from the time of its first Discovery by them. by Bartolomé de las Casas

883 , by turning the flowers first to the right and then to the left and making the stalks come out underneath the ears of corn.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

He can only understand the effect of this combat on my spirit, who has himself incurred something, hazarded something, in repelling the unjust and cruel aggressions of a tyrant.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

Mrs. Boyce wrote her note to Miss Raeburn, a note containing cold though civil excuses as to herself, while accepting the invitation for Marcella, who should be sent to the Court, either in the carriage or under the escort of a maid who could bring her back.
— from Marcella by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

So was his carcass cast out upon the earth, headless, and without a name.
— from Stories from Virgil by Alfred John Church

We had not kept up a very lively correspondence during the year of our separation, but we had agreed when we parted that we would not write except upon some especial emergency, as anything like a correspondence carried on under the eyes of the new superintendent and Herr von Krossow seemed an impossibility.
— from Hammer and Anvil: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen

Thus seeing consists of using the eyes; and the soul at the same time feels the evils which may affect the sight.
— from Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 4 In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods by Plotinus

"Why, my dear old Jerry—my lovely Bo'sun—" "Captured by his Honor, Master Horatio—carried off by the Cap'n under your own father's very own nose, sir—or as you might say, cut out under the enemy's guns, my Lord!"
— from The Amateur Gentleman by Jeffery Farnol

At Webster, the court town of Jackson County, we were quartered for the night in the jail, but accompanied Lieutenant Cogdill to a venison breakfast at the parsonage with Mrs. Harris and her daughter, who had called on us the evening before.
— from Famous Adventures and Prison Escapes of the Civil War by Basil Wilson Duke

The most unfounded charges of unfaithfulness to English interests, and personal interference for the purpose of gaining his own ends, and working into the hands of foreign Governments, were brought against the Queen's husband.
— from Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 2 by Sarah Tytler

In the first place the tenants had to make their returns extra sigillum pendentes , thereby solemnly committing themselves; 55 in the second, the tenants would, of course, have been tempted to conceal or understate their excess of knights, had they foreseen the use that the crown would make of their returns.
— from Feudal England: Historical Studies on the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries by John Horace Round

I hoped that, as it had been so often deferred, it might not come off until the end of the holidays.
— from A Girl in Spring-Time by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

"You will see that the colonel is taken excellent care of until the English steamer arrives, when I am sure he will be able to travel; and you will accompany him to Seven-Oak Waaste, and be as useful to him and as faithful as you have been to me.
— from Faithful Margaret: A Novel by Simpson, J. M., Mrs.