To this we are led by the analogy of the present life, in which we see different races and nations of men, and different men and women of the same nation, in various states or stages of cultivation; some more and some less developed, and all of them capable of improvement under favourable circumstances.
— from Phaedo by Plato

Poets would profit or delight mankind, And with the pleasing have th' instructive joined.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

who, [Pg 91] even when the masses threw themselves at his feet, with sublime defiance made an open assault on his own tendency, the very tendency with which he had triumphed over the masses.
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The Apostle accordingly goes on to specify sins of a wholly different type from those already mentioned, sins of uncharitableness, such as anger, detraction, malice, and the like. 280 III.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

It was exactly the favor which he had done me, about a quarter of a century before, in that same spot, the first time I ever steamed out of the port of New Orleans.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

With this gentleman, who took me home soon after our acquaintance commenced, I lived near eight months in which time, my constant complaisance and docility, my attention to deserve his confidence and love, and a conduct, in general, devoid of the least art and founded on my sincere regard and esteem for him, won and attached him so firmly to me, that, after having generously trusted me with a genteel, independent settlement, proceeding to heap marks of affection on me, he appointed me, by an authentic will, his sole heiress and executrix: a disposition which he did not outlive two months, being taken from me by a violent cold that he contracted, as he unadvisedly ran to the window, on an alarm of fire at some streets distant, and stood there naked-breasted, and exposed to the fatal impressions of a damp night air.
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

] as a Christmas draught, made all merry; and they full of admiration at my plate, particularly my flaggons (which, indeed, are noble), and so late home, all with great mirth and satisfaction to them, as I thought, and to myself to see all I have and do so much outdo for neatness and plenty anything done by any of them.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

“What does Miss Anville mean?”
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

The stern temper of Galerius was cast in a very different mould; and while he commanded the esteem of his subjects, he seldom condescended to solicit their affections.
— 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

Revue des deux Mondes , August, 1908.
— from War and the Arme Blanche by Erskine Childers

Little Missis Tinky got Ou’ Mammy Reyer, de Crane, to he’p her, an’ dat made all de difference.
— from Old Hendrik's Tales by Arthur Owen Vaughan

Cardinal Ippolito de' Medici and Duke Alessandro; and it occurred to Baccio to go and kiss the feet of his Holiness.
— from Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 07 (of 10) Tribolo to Il Sodoma by Giorgio Vasari

He went home an hour later and told his wife that I was not quite right in my head, and that my husband had to carry about a nurse for me, who dressed me and undressed me, and that I was not allowed to go into a shop alone.
— from When We Were Strolling Players in the East by Louise Jordan Miln

The bodies of Warwick and Montagu were placed in one coffin, conveyed to London, and exposed for three days at St. Paul's, that all who desired might assure themselves that the great earl and his brother no longer lived.
— from The Wars of the Roses; or, Stories of the Struggle of York and Lancaster by John G. (John George) Edgar

but he confounds the notices one with another, and reasons on the Spanish drama merely as a moral critic.
— from History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 1 of 2) by Friedrich Bouterwek

This was entrusted to Camillo Bourbon del Monte, an Italian officer, who boasted the blood royal of France in his veins, and was disposed on all occasions to vindicate that proud pedigree by his deeds.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation methods and addresses.
— from The Mentor: Russian Music, Vol. 4, Num. 18, Serial No. 118, November 1, 1916 by Henry T. Finck

dear Miss Alice, how glad I am to see you."
— from The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner

[Pg iii] LIFE IN A GERMAN CRACK REGIMENT BY BARON VON SCHLICHT (COUNT VON BAUDISSIN) NEW YORK DODD MEAD AND COMPANY
— from Life in a German Crack Regiment by Baudissin, Wolf Ernst Hugo Emil, Graf von