[63] Hamlet's return to Denmark is due partly to his own action, partly to accident.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

Our force might be divided into different parties, for ship-building, fishing, and miscellaneous work, but we have not found it expedient to do this.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

No matter where you open its pages, you find things recorded under the name of divinations, inspirations, demoniacal possessions, apparitions, trances, ecstasies, miraculous healings and productions of disease, and occult powers possessed by peculiar individuals over persons and things in their neighborhood.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

Oui, dat de tongues of de mans is be full of deceits- dat is de Princess.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Home, and John Goods comes, and after dinner I did pay him L30 for my Lady, and after that Sir W. Pen and I into Moorfields and had a brave talk, it being a most pleasant day, and besides much discourse did please ourselves to see young Davis and Whitton, two of our clerks, going by us in the field, who we observe to take much pleasure together, and I did most often see them at play together.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

“The number, variety, and beauty of the devices that enrich the pages, far surpass anything that has been done in decorative printing.”— The Spectator.
— from Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia, and Laos (Vol. 1 of 2) During the Years 1858, 1859, and 1860 by Henri Mouhot

passim; his division of the inhabitants, 38; would have the women go to war, 38; Aristotle's opinion of his discourses, 38; his city would require a country of immeasurable extent, 39; his comparison of the human species to different kinds of metals, 40; his account of the different orders of men in a city imperfect, 3 Sojourners, their situation, 66 Solon's opinion of riches, 14; law for restraining property, 43; alters the Athenian government, 63 Soul by nature the governor over the body, and in what manner, 8; of man how divided, 228, 231 Speech a proof that man was formed for society, 4 State, each, consists of a great number of parts, 109; its disproportionate increase the cause of revolutions, 147; firm, what, 159 Stealing, how to be prevented, 44 Submission to government, when it is slavery, 206 Supreme power should be ultimately vested in the laws, 101 Syracuse, the government of, languid, 151 Temperance in a man different from a woman, 74 Temples, how to be built, 223 Thales, his contrivance to get money, 21; supposed to be the companion of Onomacritus, 64 Things necessary to be known for the management of domestic affairs, 19, 20; necessary in the position of a city, 220 Tribunals, what different things they should have under their jurisdictions, 137 Tyrannies, how established, 168; how preserved, 174, 176; of short duration, 180; instances thereof, 180 Tyranny, what, 79; not natural, 103; whence it arises, 108; treated of, 124; contains all that is bad in all governments, 125 Tyrant, from whom usually chosen, 167; his object, 168; his guards, 168 Tyrants, many of them originally enjoyed only kingly power, 168; the causes of their being conspired against, 169, 170; always love the worst of men, 175 Uses of possessions, two, 15 Usury detested, 19 Venality to be guarded against, IDS Village, what, 3 Virtue of a citizen has reference to the state, 71; different in different governments, 71 Virtues different in different persons, 23, 24; whether the same constitute a good man and a valuable citizen, 71 Walls necessary for a city, 222 War, what is gained by it in some degree a natural acquisition, 14; not a final end, 205, 229 Wife, the proper government of, 22 Women, what their proper virtue, 23; not to be indulged in improper liberties, 52; had great influence at Lacedaemon, 52; of great disservice to the Lacedemonians, 52; why indulged by them, 53; their proper time of marrying, 233; how to be managed when with child, 234 Zaleucus, legislator of the Western Locrians, 64; supposed to be the scholar of Thales, 64
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

This is the flow'r that smiles on every one, To show his teeth as white as whales-bone; And consciences that will not die in debt Pay him the due of 'honey-tongued Boyet.' KING.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

For Nature cannot from a part derive "That being which the whole can only give: He perfect, stable; but imperfect we, Subject to change, and different in degree; Plants, beasts, and man; and, as our organs are, We more or less of his perfection share.
— from Dryden's Palamon and Arcite by Geoffrey Chaucer

“Somebody has got to do it,” declared Piper, “and there shouldn’t be much time wasted.
— from The New Boys at Oakdale by Morgan Scott

Contributions à l’histoire des Grégarines des Invertébrés de Paris et de Roscoff, ibid.
— from The Animal Parasites of Man by Fred. V. (Frederick Vincent) Theobald

To this day, in Dulham, people laugh and repeat her strange foreign words and phrases.
— from The Life of Nancy by Sarah Orne Jewett

It was my intention to put as many labourers as could be spared from other necessary work, to clear ground for cultivation; and I had reason to believe that I should have had from fifty to seventy acres sown with grain by the end of October: I purposed to continue clearing ground in Arthur's Vale, and on the hill round it, in order to have all the cultivated lands belonging to the public as much connected together as possible; this would have answered much better for the growth of wheat, Indian corn, or barley, than their being sown in confined situations; which experience had shown were not at all productive: the parroquets and other birds would not have destroyed so much of the grain before it was got in, and it might be much better guarded from thieves than if the cultivated grounds were dispersed in different parts of the island: another very material reason for clearing all the ground in this particular situation was, that the barn was situated in the center of the vale.
— from An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island by John Hunter

"Le Romãt de Iehan de Paris, &c. à Paris, par Jehan Bonfons , 4to.
— from A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two by Thomas Frognall Dibdin

The same germ may act differently in different people, and if one's power of resistance, as happens with those accustomed to drinking liquor, is low, the action of the germ is rapid, although the disease is identical with the form in which death comes only after years and years.
— from Rural Hygiene by Henry N. (Henry Neely) Ogden

Immense fragments of ice yet floated, and numerous lighters, broken from their moorings, drifted in different parts of the river; many of them were complete wrecks.
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 2 (of 3) or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone

The cells possess the power of rapid contraction and expansion, by which the coloured liquid is drawn into deeper parts of the surface, and is again brought into contact with the semi-transparent skin—thus constantly varying.
— from On Molecular and Microscopic Science, Volume 2 (of 2) by Mary Somerville

She was dressed in dark petticoat and print wrapper.
— from Sir Gibbie by George MacDonald