The horse on which Day rides is called Skinfaxe, and with his mane he lights up all the sky and the earth.
— from The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

It is a suggestion which cannot be disregarded in view of the great amount of scurvy which comes about on diets rich in carbohydrates, especially those containing malt sugar.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

Thus, whoever has followed me and entered into my mode of thought, will not think it so very paradoxical if I say, that supposing it were possible to give a perfectly accurate, complete explanation of music, extending even to particulars, that is to say, a detailed repetition in concepts of what it expresses, this would also be a sufficient repetition and explanation of the world in concepts, or at least entirely parallel to such an explanation, and thus it would be the true philosophy.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Though the plays were distinctly religious in character, there is hardly one without its humorous element.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

And so Lomenie departs: rich if Court-titles and Money-bonds can enrich him; but if these cannot, perhaps the poorest of all extant men.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

From the dome of St. Sophia the inhabitants of either sex, and of every degree, rushed in crowds to the cell of the monk Gennadius, 34 to consult the oracle of the church.
— 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

The DVD did the rest, installing a whole bunch of hidden programs on the machine, programs that would stay hidden even when the Board of Ed did its daily remote integrity checks of the machines.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

The newspapers fanned the public excitement to the highest pitch, and threats of attacking the arsenal on the one hand, and the mob of d—d rebels in Camp Jackson on the other, were bandied about.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Wisdom which is only theoretical and never put into practice, is like a double rose; its color and perfume are delightful, but it withers away and leaves no seed.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism by Arthur Schopenhauer

It is deeply religious in character: a novel that will bring the great spiritual truths of God, character and attainment straight to the heart of every reader.
— from A Man's Hearth by Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie) Ingram

In this they failed not only for the reasons just considered--lack of vital religion in their Macedonians and their Greeks, and deterioration of the Hellenism of Hellenes when they ceased to be citizens of free city-states--but also through individual faults of their own, which appear again and again as the dynasty runs its course; and perhaps even more for some deeper reason, not understood by us yet, but lying behind the empirical law that East is East and West is West.
— from The Ancient East by D. G. (David George) Hogarth

This is well known and is one of the reasons why the dominant race is crushing out the strength of the negro in the South.
— from The Call of the South by Robert Lee Durham

DEPARTMENTAL RULE XI. Bach appointing officer in the classified departmental service shall report to the Commission— ( a ) Every probational and every absolute appointment made by him, and every appointment made by him under any exception to examination authorized by Departmental Rule II, clause 3. ( b )
— from A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 3: Grover Cleveland, First Term by Grover Cleveland

Ulexine is very hygroscopic, cannot be sublimed, even in a vacuum, without decomposition, and dissolves readily in chloroform; on the contrary, cytisine is not hygroscopic, sublimes completely, and is almost insoluble in chloroform, Pharm.
— from Poisons, Their Effects and Detection A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts by Alexander Wynter Blyth

We know no well authenticated instance of a people which has decidedly retrograded in civilisation and prosperity, except from the influence of violent and terrible calamities, such as those which laid the Roman empire in ruins, or those which, about the beginning of the sixteenth century, desolated Italy.
— from Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 2 With a Memoir and Index by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

One day, when my donkey was making his way through a dilapidated region, I came upon a mosque so small that it seemed hardly more than a base for its exquisite minaret, which towered to an unusual height above it.
— from Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu by Constance Fenimore Woolson

In all other cases—that is, in the case of the actions with which we are chiefly concerned in ethical discussion—the result aimed at, and some part at least of the means by which it is to be realised, are more or less distinctly represented in consciousness, previous to the volition that initiates the movements tending to its realisation.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

One evening when we had finished this dutiful ritual I climbed on father’s chair to kiss him good night.
— from Margaret Sanger: an autobiography. by Margaret Sanger