But I shall get out of my depth; my shallow mind cannot comprehend, as it ought, these weighty subjects: Let me only therefore pray, that, after having made a grateful use of God's mercies here, I may, with my dear benefactor, rejoice in that happy state, where is no mixture, no unsatisfiedness; and where all is joy, and peace, and love, for evermore!
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

Besides, the water's wet is beat upon By rays of sun, and, with the dawn, becomes Rarer in texture under his pulsing blaze; And, therefore, whatso seeds it holds of fire
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus

The divine beings represented in these legends find their complement in the fabulous history of Cyrus; and the hostile powers which sought their destruction are represented in demonology by the Persian tyrant-devil Zohák.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

This day talking with Sir W. Batten, he did give me an account how ill the King and Duke of York was advised to send orders for our frigates and fire-ships to come from Gravesend, soon as ever news come of the Dutch being returned into the river, wherein no seamen, he believes, was advised with; for, says he, we might have done just as Warwicke did, when he, W. Batten; come with the King and the like fleete, in the late wars, into the river: for Warwicke did not run away from them, but sailed before them when they sailed, and come to anchor when they come to anchor, and always kept in a small distance from them: so as to be able to take any opportunity of any of their ships running aground, or change of wind, or any thing else, to his advantage.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Now the consciousness of a determination of the faculty of desire is always the source of a satisfaction in the resulting action; but this pleasure, this satisfaction in oneself, is not the determining principle of the action; on the contrary, the determination of the will directly by reason is the source of the feeling of pleasure, and this remains a pure practical not sensible determination of the faculty of desire.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

sikrit — a kang which one has not laid down, but retains in his hand.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

With her I had neither transports nor desires, but remained in a ravishing calm, sensible of a happiness I could not define, and thus could I have passed my whole life, or even eternity, without feeling an instant of uneasiness.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is therefore not a national religion, not determined by race: it appeals to the disinherited everywhere; it consists of a foundation of resentment against all that is successful and dominant: it is in need of a symbol which represents the damnation of everything successful and dominant.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Pisani confessed his defeat, by retiring into a fortified harbor, from whence, under the pretext of the orders of the senate, he steered with a broken and flying squadron for the Isle of Candia, and abandoned to his rivals the sovereignty of the sea.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

This species was first described by Rafinesque in 1820 from streams in Kentucky.
— from Bass, Pike, Perch, and Others by James A. (James Alexander) Henshall

The physical character of the Celts, who peopled the west of Europe at an early period, is still observable in the Spaniard, most of the French, the native Welsh, the Manks, and the Scotch Highlander; whereas the German race, who occupied the more northern and eastern settlements, are still distinguished by their transparent skin, rosy complexion, flaxen hair, and blue eyes; and in Ireland, the race of the Danes and the Milesians can to this day be recognised in their respective characters.
— from Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen

Cadurcis attributed this reception of his veiled and delicate overtures to her ignorance of the world; and though he sighed for as passionate a return to his strong feelings as the sentiments which animated himself, he was on the whole not displeased, but rather interested, by these indications of a pure and unsophisticated spirit.
— from Venetia by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

He learnt from the Tinguianes that they believed in the existence of the soul, that it leaves the body after death, but remains in the family.
— from The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Frederic H. Sawyer

"But as you cannot, doctor, there can be no good possibly done by regretting it."
— from Varney the Vampire; Or, the Feast of Blood by Thomas Preskett Prest

The revelation of it did not come by express statements or descriptions, but rather it grew up in men through their consorting with Christ.
— from Pastor Pastorum; Or, The Schooling of the Apostles by Our Lord by Henry Latham

Were it to take me a month to travel the distance by river, if time permitted I had rather adventure next time upon the Nile than ever go by train over that line again.
— from Khartoum Campaign, 1898; or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan by Bennet Burleigh

On the one was depicted the cross and five martlets, the device of Edward, afterwards surnamed the Confessor: on the other, a plain broad cross with a deep border round it, and the streamer shaped into sharp points.
— from Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 01 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

1.—Section through sediment deposited by rain in a roadside pool: a. surface of roadway; b. layer of small pebbles and coarse sand; c. fine sand passing into d ; d. the finest sand and mud.
— from Common Minerals and Rocks by William O. (William Otis) Crosby