But whatever may be the nature of our [205] dreams, the mental processes that characterize them are analogous to those which go on when the mind is not held to attention by the will.
— from The World I Live In by Helen Keller

The interruption of their churlish drums Cuts off more circumstance: they are at hand; To parley or to fight, therefore prepare.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

He is compelled to analyse and study it in its first elements, and to augment the modes of expression in order to keep pace with the increasing number of his wants and ideas.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

Next he captured the acropolis and, after entrusting the entire city to the care of the military tribunes, sailed back again.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

—‘Mike Farrell, too, could tell all about the gentry , as he lay sick a long time.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

" Phoebe was on the point of retreating, but turned back, with some hesitation; for she did not exactly comprehend his manner, although, on better observation, its feature seemed rather to be lack of ceremony than any approach to offensive rudeness.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Among the patients in convulsions there are always observed a great many women, and very few men.”
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

1 They were not very far from the cave, when Satan came towards them, and hid himself between them and the cave, under the form of two ravenous lions three days without food, that came towards Adam and Eve, as if to break them in pieces and devour them.
— from The First Book of Adam and Eve by Rutherford Hayes Platt

This can easily be done in these days by any one who lives in or near town; while even in the country there are always excursions to be made, or the county town to be visited, even if there are no picture-galleries or exhibitions as there are in London.
— from From Kitchen to Garret: Hints for young householders by J. E. (Jane Ellen) Panton

Meanwhile Eurylochus and his Peloponnesians, learning that the Ambraciots at Olpae had arrived, set out from Proschium with all haste to join them, and crossing the Achelous advanced through Acarnania, which they found deserted by its population, who had gone to the relief of Argos; keeping on their right the city of the Stratians and its garrison, and on their left the rest of Acarnania.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

All reverence to honor, all idea of what it is, will be lost out of the world, before it can be imputed as a fault to any man, that he has been closely connected with those incomparable persons, living and dead, with whom for eleven years I have constantly thought and acted.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

We should here look in vain for that courtly ease, and that polished exterior, so common to almost all Asiatics of high rank.
— from The Mission to Siam, and Hué, the Capital of Cochin China, in the Years 1821-2 by George Finlayson

power, 74 Arsenal, the, 292 —— foundation of, 41 B Bajamonte Conspiracy, 107-109 Barbarossa and Pope Alexander, 48 Boccaccio at Venice, 291 Bocche di Leoni, 248 , 292 Bovolo, il, 296 Brides of St Mark, story of, 23 Brienne, John of, Latin Emperor of the East, 75 Brienne, Walter of, his defection, 59 Bronze Horses, from Constantinople, 68 Bucintoro, 53 , 78 C Cabinet, the, 102 Cabot, Sebastiano, and the Ten, 172 Cambrai, League of, 146 , 156 , 165-167 Cambrai, peace of, 170-172 Campanile, the, 22 , 44 —— fall of, 219 Canal, Grand, 263-275 Cape route, discovery of, 159 Capi of the Ten, 110 , 112 , note Cappello, Bianca, 286 , note Carlo Zeno, 130 , 137 Carmagnola, his strategy, 142 , 143 —— capture and execution, 143 , 144 Carraras, the, 118 , 119 , 136 , 137 Cassiodorus, letter of, to the Tribuni Maritimi , 6 Castle of Love at Treviso, 72 Charlemagne defeats the Lombards, 11 Chioggia, 322 —— relief of, 134 —— war of, 131 Cobblers’ Guildhall, 308 “Cobden Madonna,” 93 , 251 Colleoni, statue of, 280 Columns of St Mark and St Theodore, raising of, 53 Comines, Philippe de, his impressions of Venice, 160 Comnenian dynasty, 62 Constantinople, first capture of, by Venetians and Franks, 64 Constantinople, second capture and sack of, 67 Corn Office, 93 Cornaro, Caterina, 157 , 159 Coronation oath, 55 , 74 Council, closing of Great, 101 Cretan war, the, 181-183 Crichton, the Admirable, at Venice, 178 Crociferi, oratory of the, 298 Crown of Thorns pawned, 76 Crusade, fourth, 56-67 Crusades, attitude of Venetians towards, 38 Cyprus, acquisition of, 157 , 158 D Da Canale writes the history of the Venetians in French, 86 —— his description of Venice, 87 —— his description of a ducal election festival, 90 Dalmatia, loss of, 127 —— protectorate of, 29 —— recovery of, 138 Dalmatian pirates, 21 , 28 Dante at Venice, 117 Despots, Italian, 118 Dogado, the extent of, 2 Doge, election of first, 8 —— his power and state, 8 , 9 —— limitation of powers of, 32 , 33 Ducal Council, origin of, 33 Ducal Palace, 17 , 241-251 Ducat of gold first coined, 95 E East, conquests of Venetians in the, 68 Eccelino da Romano, death of, and rejoicings at Venice, 86 Election of Doge, complicated machinery for, 88 English goods branded at Venice, 105 English knights at Venice, 128 —— soldiers in Venetian service, their prowess, 136 Erasmus at Venice, 213 F Factions, aristocratic (Heraclia) and democratic (Malamocco), 9 , 10 , 12 , 13 Factions, Caloprini and Orseoli, 28 —— Nicolotti and Castellani, 305 Faliero, Marin, his house, 298 —— his victory at Zara and embassy to Genoa, 122 Faliero, Marin, treason and execution of, 124 , 126 Ferrara, defeat of Venetians at, 107 —— siege of, 77 Festivals at Venice, 184 , 185 Fisherman and St Mark, legend of, 120 Fleets, trading, 104 Florence appeals for a Venetian alliance, 141 Foscari, Francesco, his forward policy, 140 , 146 , 151 Foscari, Francesco, degradation and death, 149 , 150 Foscari, Jacopo, his trial, 147 , 148 —— his exile and death, 149 Foscarini, Antonio, executed unjustly, 180 Frari, S. Maria Gloriosa dei, 281-284 French, defeat of, at Fornova, 162 Friuli, occupation of, 138 G Galileo at Padua, 178 Galley, value of cargo of, 104 —— comparative size of, 105 Genoa, defeat of, 82 , 85 —— origin of war with, 81 Genoese crushed by Venetians off Lojero, 122 Genoese, defeat of Venetians by, 97 Gesuiti, the, 298 Ghetti, the, 310 Giudecca, island of, 309 Glass-workers, 212 , 213 Goethe at Venice, 186 , 246 Golden Book, the, 102 Goldoni, 214 , note —— statue of, 293 Grado and Aquileia, jealousy of Patriarchs of, 32 Great Council, origin of, 47 Greek islands, occupation of, 139 Greeks recapture Constantinople, 83 H Holy Roman Empire, Dante and, 45 Horses at Venice, 291 , 293 Hunchback of the Rialto, 302 I Inquisition, Holy, introduction of, at Venice, 79 Inquisitors of State, 111 , 112 —— of the dead Doge, 74 Interdetto , conflict of the, 175-177 L Lagosta, capture of, 29 Lepanto, victory of, 173-175 Libreria Vecchia, 289 Lido, the, 320 Lighting of streets, 44 Lombard invaders, 3 , 4 Loss and recovery of mainland provinces, 167-169 M Mainland, aggrandisement on, 106 —— war policy on, 119 Malamocco, Old, where situated, 15 , note Manuel, orders spoliation of Venetian traders at Constantinople, 46 Marco Polo, his travels, 98 —— joins Venetian fleet, and is taken prisoner at Curzola, 99 Marco Polo, site of his house, 99 , 293 Merceria, the, 218 Mocenigo, Tomaso, his wise counsel, 140 , 141 Morea, the loss of, 153 , 183 Murano, 316 Murzuphles, his coup d’état at Constantinople, 66 Museo Civico, 303 , 304 N Normans, conflicts with,
— from Venice and Its Story by Thomas Okey

Most people—Christians, sceptics, or otherwise—are contented to aim at the welfare of his generation and the next, and think as little of their great-great-grandchildren as of their great-great-grandfathers.
— from The Eclipse of Faith; Or, A Visit to a Religious Sceptic by Henry Rogers

There are music-lovers and serious playgoers in America; but for the most part our theatres cater to, and are filled by, a public seeking a soothing and condimented mental atmosphere, in which to finish digestion.
— from Germany and the Germans from an American Point of View by Price Collier

He was Irish and came to America as valet to Sir John Caldwell, who died very suddenly at the Tremont House in Boston.
— from Brook Farm: Historic and Personal Memoirs by John Thomas Codman

Let us then not cease our efforts until every mission cross gleams gloriously in the radiance of the California sun, until the devotional chimes of mission bells peal forth again from every silent belfry, until the altar light beams again before each tabernacle enclosing the Eucharistic Presence, until the empty niches contain again the images which decked them as of yore, until each tomb of sainted missionary is restored, until mass is again daily said within these consecrated walls, and finally until San Carlos of Carmelo is again a worthier Carmel, "for the greater honor and glory of God" and the praises of His Virgin Mother once more are sung about this smiling valley where the Christian Indian children gathered the beautiful wild flowers of the blooming meadows to adorn the hallowed shrines, ere chimed the Angelus at evenings mellow glow.
— from Chimes of Mission Bells; an historical sketch of California and her missions by Maria Antonia Field

But for somuch as I am not able to saie how manie did challenge this authoritie at once, and how long they reigned ouer their seuerall portions, I will passe ouer these ancient times, and come néerer vnto our owne, I meane the 600.
— from Chronicles (1 of 6): The Description of Britaine by William Harrison