"Of course they are capable," he cried; "of course they can learn and strive and achieve—" and "Of course," added the temptation softly, "they do nothing of the sort."
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

Addressing masses by tens of thousands in the open air, on the urgent political questions of the day, or designed to lead the meditations of an hour devoted to the remembrance of some national era, or of some incident marking the progress of the nation, and lifting him up to a view of what is, and what is past, and some indistinct revelation of the glory that lies in the future, or of some great historical name, just borne by the nation to his tomb—we have learned that then and there, at the base of Bunker Hill, before the corner-stone was laid, and again when from the finished column the centuries looked on him; in Faneuil Hall, mourning for those with whose spoken or written eloquence of freedom its arches had so often resounded; on the Rock of Plymouth; before the Capitol, of which there shall not be one stone left on another before his memory shall have ceased to live—in such scenes, unfettered by the laws of forensic or parliamentary debate, multitudes uncounted lifting up their eyes to him; some great historical scenes of America around; all symbols of her glory and art and power and fortune there; voices of the past, not unheard; shapes beckoning from the future, not unseen—sometimes that mighty intellect, borne upward to a height and kindled to an illumination which we shall see no more, wrought out, as it were, in an instant a picture of vision, warning, prediction; the progress of the nation; the contrasts of its eras; the heroic deaths; the motives to patriotism; the maxims and arts imperial by which the glory has been gathered and may be heightened—wrought out, in an instant, a picture to fade only when all record of our mind shall die.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

There are but few instances in which a large blood vessel crosses the central line from its own side to the other .
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

For, crossing the Cathedral Lawn, There came an ancient college-friend, Who, introduced to Mrs. Vaughan, Lifted his hat, and bow’d and smiled.
— from The Angel in the House by Coventry Patmore

The charge that Cyrus left with his children, that neither they, nor any other, should either see or touch his body after the soul was departed from it,—[Xenophon, Cyropedia, viii.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

On the day Fort Donelson fell I had 27,000 men to confront the Confederate lines and guard the road four or five miles to the left, over which all our supplies had to be drawn on wagons.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

No, Faustus, curse thyself, curse Lucifer That hath depriv'd thee of the joys of heaven.
— from The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus From the Quarto of 1604 by Christopher Marlowe

When the fire was kindled, and it had seized their bodies, without an appearance of enduring pain, they continued to cry, Lord Jesus, strengthen us!
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

They reached the Vánars, and, dismayed, Their never-ending lines surveyd: Nor would they try, in mere despair, To count the countless legions there, [pg 447] That crowded valley, plain and hill, That pressed about each cave and rill.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

" "Well, suppose I did?" "And then came the close, low-crowned cap.
— from Home Lights and Shadows by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

This day must see the junction of his two divisions, for the troops under Cristoval de Olid had already joined with the force under Sandoval, and both occupied the camp of the causeway, the causeway leading directly north for more than a league into the heart of the city.
— from Roger the Bold: A Tale of the Conquest of Mexico by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton

They divided HERE my vestments for themselves, and on my clothing they cast lots.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various

Copy the construction lines and their modifications as shown in the six sketches on this page.
— from Text books of art education, v. 4 of 7. Book IV, Fourth Year by Bonnie E. Snow

If we contemplate the common life and the mutual relations between plants and animals (man included), we shall find everywhere, and at all times, the very opposite of that kindly and peaceful social life which the goodness of the Creator ought to have prepared for his creatures—we shall 20 rather find everywhere a pitiless, most embittered Struggle of All against All .
— from The History of Creation, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or the Development of the Earth and its Inhabitants by the Action of Natural Causes by Ernst Haeckel

So far as the native members were concerned, they cared little about the original purposes of the order, but hoped to make it the nucleus of a political organization; and the northern civilian membership, the Bureau agents, preachers, and teachers, and other adventurers, soon began to see other possibilities in the organization.
— from Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama by Walter L. (Walter Lynwood) Fleming

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— from The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 2 by Percy Bysshe Shelley