The same may be said of the rich; they do not sufficiently deal in general ideas, collected by impassionate thinking, or calm investigation, to acquire that strength of character, on which great resolves are built.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

EPI: What will you tell me, servant? DAW: The disease in Greek is called mania, in Latin insania, furor, vel ecstasis melancholica, that is, egressio, when a man ex melancholico evadit fanaticus.
— from Epicoene; Or, The Silent Woman by Ben Jonson

Where does it get its colour from? From the earth, air, &c.?
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

[42] A definition of the sixty-four parts, or divisions, is given in Chapter II., page 45 .
— from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks by Vatsyayana

After forty days in Gallipoli in command of a travelling circus of machine-guns—and machine-guns were worth more than gold and precious stones in the first days on the Peninsula, being attached in turn to the Australians in Shrapnel Valley, sundry units at Cape Helles, and finally to the 29th Division in Gully Ravine, where I worked with the 13th Sikhs until they were practically wiped out on June 4—I again found myself in England in July 1915, my arm in a sling and feeling very thin as the result of sand colic, a horrid complaint which seized me the moment I set foot on Turkish soil at Gaba Tepe.
— from The Spider Web: The Romance of a Flying-Boat War Flight by T. D. Hallam

“If there’s any arresting to be done, I guess I can do it myself.”
— from The Bondboy by George W. (George Washington) Ogden

The frequency of rainy days is greatest in countries near the sea, and their number decreases the further we journey from the sea-border towards the inland.
— from The Reason Why A Careful Collection of Many Hundreds of Reasons for Things Which, Though Generally Believed, Are Imperfectly Understood by Robert Kemp Philp

If that shaft of light had never been there and if I had started down there in the dark, I guess I could have found the place where Pee-wee’s body was.
— from Roy Blakeley's Silver Fox Patrol by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

The danger is greater in cheese factories than in creameries, for whey usually represents a more advanced stage of fermentation than skim-milk.
— from Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition A Concise Manual for the Use of Students in Dairying by H. L. (Harry Luman) Russell

(A specimen of the diaper is given in Collings' Gothic Ornaments , 4to., London, 1848.)
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 128, April 10, 1852 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

As a natural result of the disturbances in Germany, its current literature has to a great extent assumed the form of political pamphlets and romances.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. VII, December 1850, Vol. II by Various

Part of the taffrail was carried away, and the carving gone entirely, but the transom and transom-knees stood firm; and of the ship's name done in gold I could make out in large letters Ta Lucia ; and underneath, in a curve, and in smaller letters, Ador .
— from The Maid of Sker by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

The source from which each article is derived is given in connection therewith.
— from The History of Sulu by Najeeb M. (Najeeb Mitry) Saleeby

Dr. Samuel Johnson, who was a stiff Churchman, with no love for Dissenters in general, is constrained, in his work on English Poets , to pay a warm tribute to Dr. Watts' remarkable attainments, and says it was with great propriety that in 1728 he received from Edinburgh and Aberdeen an unsolicited diploma, by which he became a doctor of divinity.
— from A Year in Europe by Walter W. (Walter William) Moore