That makes no difference since it exists in my desires, or rather exists as long as my desires exist.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

And farther it is to be observed, that the Rays which differ in Refrangibility will have different Limits of their Angles of Emergence, and by consequence according to their different Degrees of Refrangibility emerge most copiously in different
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

The righteous powers, who tread the starry skies, The weak enlighten, and confound the wise, And human thought, with unresisted sway, Depress or raise, enlarge or take away: Truth, by their high decree, thy voice forsakes, And folly with the tongue of wisdom speaks.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

In short, this was the safest, politest, and, at the same time, the most thorough house of accommodation in town: every thing being conducted so, that decency made no intrenchment upon the most libertine pleasures; in the practice of which, too, the choice familiars of the house had found the secret so rare and difficult, of reconciling even all the refinements of taste and delicacy, with the most gross and determinate gratifications of sensuality.
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

The gods with ease frail man depress or raise, Exalt the lowly, or the proud debase."
— from The Odyssey by Homer

They wake the echoes of our great cities, and are not heard among the hills and dales of rural England.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

All great ideas, the races' aspirations, All heroisms, deeds of rapt enthusiasts, Be ye my Gods.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Our laws do not permit a young man to dispose of real estate until he is twenty-one.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

Spite of every caution, however, we lost occasionally by bad loans, and worse by the steady depreciation of real estate.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan

A stranger making his way about the brown streets, neat brick and corrugated iron buildings set down on red earth, and divided into alternate avenues and streets—'little New York,' said a policeman complacently—a stranger pauses to ask himself if he dreams, or if the Household Brigade, the Bachelors' Club, and the Foreign Office have depleted themselves of their members, and sent them, disguised in broad-brimmed hats and riding-breeches, to hold the capital of Matabeleland.
— from South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 8) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899 by Louis Creswicke

both knew the danger of Europe, and indicated the remedy, His Majesty’s notes, as soon as he came of age, presented by the able and loyal Minister Bildt to the Diet of Ratisbon, evince.
— from Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Complete by Lewis Goldsmith

Sarawak is divided into six districts or Residencies, each of which is under the supervision and control of a European Government officer.
— from On the Equator by Harry De Windt

But I almost despair of resisting Executive influence.”
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 12 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

The object of these prognoses was primarily to discover the termination of a disease, whether the patient would die or recover, either soon or only after the lapse of a certain time—for instance, after seven days.
— from Superstition in Medicine by Hugo Magnus

A lady , about forty-five years of age, the mother of many children, has been troubled during the course of the past year with violent palpitations of the heart, and great difficulty of respiration, especially on going up stairs.
— from Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart by John Collins Warren

on the Metaphysica says, “Heraclitus ergo cum diceret omnem rem esse et non esse et opposita simul consistere, contradictionem veram simul esse statuebat, et omnia dicebat esse vera” (Lassalle, p. 83).
— from Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 1 by George Grote

"We are resolved to maintain the dignity of Rome, either in peace or war," said the envoys, with a show of pride and valor.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 11 (of 15), Roman by Charles Morris