By what I seek, but others to make such As I, though thereby worse to me redound: For only in destroying I find ease To my relentless thoughts; and, him destroyed, Or won to what may work his utter loss, For whom all this was made, all this will soon Follow, as to him linked in weal or woe; In woe then; that destruction wide may range: To me shall be the glory sole among The infernal Powers, in one day to have marred What he, Almighty styled, six nights and days Continued making; and who knows how long Before had been contriving?
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

(iii) While this rationalistic philosophy was developing in France, English thought appealed to the intelligent self-interest of individuals in order to secure outer unity in the acts which issued from isolated streams of consciousness.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

And this is the language of nature when everything speaks out of its own property, and continually manifests and declares itself, ... for each thing reveals its mother, which thus gives the essence and the will to the form.”
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Again, after the battle of Perryville, General Buell was urged to pursue Bragg's defeated army, and drive it from East Tennessee.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

[223] For only in destroying I find ease To my relentless thoughts.—
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

But neither here seek I, no nor in Heav'n To dwell, unless by maistring Heav'ns Supreame; Nor hope to be my self less miserable By what I seek, but others to make such As I though thereby worse to me redound: For onely in destroying I finde ease To my relentless thoughts; and him destroyd, 130 Or won to what may work his utter loss, For whom all this was made, all this will soon Follow, as to him linkt in weal or woe,
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

And why, then, would we do it for Edward the Seventh?”
— from Dubliners by James Joyce

it was covered with water, and with difficulty I found even the meadow.
— from The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The inferiority of the quality, indeed, compared with that of the produce of English dairies, is fully equal to that of the price.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

He had immense difficulty in feeding even this slender force.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

Though hence come the moan that he borrows From darkness and depth of the night, Though hence be the spring of his sorrows, Hence too is the joy of his might; The delight that his doom is for ever To seek and desire and rejoice, And the sense that eternity never Shall silence his voice.
— from Pre-Raphaelite and other Poets by Lafcadio Hearn

The divine is for Eucken the ultimate spirituality that inspires the work of all spiritual personalities.
— from Rudolph Eucken : a philosophy of life by Abel J. (Abel John) Jones

In his birth-place, Tyana, a temple was erected in his honor at imperial expense, and the priests everywhere erected statues to a philosopher who had left this world without dying; in fact, even the Emperor Alexander Severus set up an image of Apollonius in his lararium , or domestic chapel.
— from Superstition in Medicine by Hugo Magnus

"Ah! do not believe that, because there could be but one dauphin in France," exclaimed the Beguine, "or that if the queen allowed that child to vegetate, banished from his royal parents' presence, she was on that account an unfeeling mother.
— from The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" by Alexandre Dumas

that, although these mails cost the Government and the people something more than those slow and uncertain communications which depend on sailing vessels and overland transit, yet they are enabled, by the facilities which they afford, to monopolize and control the commerce of the world, and divert it from even the most natural channels into the lap of British wealth.
— from Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post by Thomas Rainey

Great war canoes, laden with gory corpses, have many a time been’ drawn up on the very stretch of sand where we landed, and the grandfathers of the men who greeted us have sung and danced in fierce exultation to see the fat limbs and well-fed bodies of their enemies laid in ghastly heaps upon the snowy beach, ready for the cooking pits that since early morning had been glowing with flame in anticipation of the banquet.
— from In the Strange South Seas by Beatrice Grimshaw

He was elegantly dressed in full evening toilette, and, throwing his white gloves on the table, approached his ward.
— from Infelice by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

If the character of light became even for an instant unfixed, if it became even by a hair's-breadth doubtful, if, for example, there crept into our idea of light some vague idea of blueness, then in that flash we have become doubtful whether the new light has more light or less.
— from Heretics by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton