In the Dialogue of Plato, entitled “The Banquet,” which is concerned entirely with discussions of the various forms of love, they dismiss love for women as unworthy of occupying the attention of sensible men.
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

He began at Cîteaux, to end in Clairvaux; he was ordained abbot by the bishop of Châlon-sur-Saône, Guillaume de Champeaux; he had seven hundred novices, and founded a hundred and sixty monasteries; he overthrew Abeilard at the council of Sens in 1140, and Pierre de Bruys and Henry his disciple, and another sort of erring spirits who were called the Apostolics; he confounded Arnauld de Brescia, darted lightning at the monk Raoul, the murderer of the Jews, dominated the council of Reims in 1148, caused the condemnation of Gilbert de Poréa, Bishop of Poitiers, caused the condemnation of Éon de l‘Étoile, arranged the disputes of princes, enlightened King Louis the Young, advised Pope Eugene III., regulated the Temple, preached the crusade, performed two hundred and fifty miracles during his lifetime, and as many as thirty-nine in one day.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

,' he added, of a piece which shared certainly with Salisbury Plain the charms of flatness and extent of space, 'the reader cannot but be pleased to find the depths of philosophy enlivened with all the charms of poetry, and to see so great a strength of reason amidst so beautiful a redundancy of the imagination.'
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Mr. Barlow never got up from the dentist's chair and was assumed to have died of poisoning, electrocution or both.
— from The Marching Morons by C. M. (Cyril M.) Kornbluth

This dread was not exactly a dread of physical evil—and yet I should be at a loss how otherwise to define it.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

Doubtless the government of Spain was in many ways such as to cramp and blight a free and healthy development of private enterprise; but the character of a great people breaks through or shapes the character of its government, and it can hardly be doubted that had the bent of the people been toward trade, the action of government would have been drawn into the same current.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Immediately after his father’s death, Ptolemy Philopator put his brother Magas and his partisans to death, Death of Ptolemy Euergetes, B.C. 222. and took possession of the throne of Egypt.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

Notwithstanding the degradation of price, English wool is said to have been improved considerably during the course even of the present century.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

“Well, put down our pair, Egerton,” said Lord Fitz-Heron.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

But you have chosen to take the policy of clinging to words [the Chicago platform], in disregard of passing events, and have hastened them onward.
— from The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1 by Jefferson Davis

During vacations the professor pursued, with some degree of passion, experiments which added luster and selected portions of the alphabet to his name.
— from Average Jones by Samuel Hopkins Adams

McCabe's "Defence of Petersburg," extract from, 221 .
— from History of the Thirty-sixth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers. 1862-1865 by Alonzo A. White

Barbara had dared even to doubt the eligibility of this investment; therefore, her worthy husband decided on placing every farthing he could raise in it.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. IX.—February, 1851.—Vol. II. by Various

The decrease of prices extends throughout the commercial world, embracing not only the raw material and the manufactured article, but provisions and lands.
— from State of the Union Addresses by Andrew Jackson

Nest morning Dale, in taking leave of the Duke of Parma, expressed the gratification which he felt, and which her Majesty was sure to feel at the production of the commission.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

They are furnished also with flour, of which biscuits are made, and often with peach and other preserves, with tarts, and every manner and description of pies, except the mince, that being an article of pastry as yet unknown among them.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

The Grand Vizier remained for some time with some 60,000 cavalry in the neighbourhood of the Wienerberg, partly to cover the retreat, partly to rally the light troops dispersed on plundering expeditions.
— from The Sieges of Vienna by the Turks by Karl August Schimmer

Philological criticism, deprived of philosophical enlightenment, philology in its bad sense or philologism, means rather by "material" or "sources," as they are also called, external things, such as the books which the poet had read or the stories that he had heard told, and on the pretext of supplying in this way the genesis of a work of art ab ovo, it penetrates to the sources of the sources, let us say to the origins of warrior women, of the ogress and the hippogryph of Ariosto.
— from Ariosto, Shakespeare and Corneille by Benedetto Croce