Will the long and dreary sermons of the pedant efface from the mind of his scholar the thoughts of pleasure when once they have found an entrance; will they banish from his heart the desires by which it is tormented; will they chill the heat of a passion whose meaning the scholar realises?
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Add ever, like a constant growling accompaniment of bass Discord: scarcity of work, scarcity of food.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

In the pages which now follow I shall deal with the folklore which refers to the more important animals, first pointing out their anthropomorphic traits, then detailing some of the more important traditions about them, and finally, where possible, describing the methods of hunting them.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

,) the first and most difficult steps of human invention.
— 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

Yet the emperor Maurice enjoyed the glory of restoring the Persian monarch to his throne; his lieutenants waged a doubtful war against the Avars of the Danube; and he cast an eye of pity, of ineffectual pity, on the abject and distressful state of his Italian provinces.
— 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 same space may appear of two colors if, by optical artifice, one of the colors is made to appear as if seen through the other.—Whether any two attributes whatever shall be compatible or not, in the sense of appearing or not to occupy the same place and moment, depends simply on de facto peculiarities of natural bodies and of our sense-organs.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

What we say of him is not dream, nor flourish of rhetoric; but scientific historic fact; as many men, now at this distance, see or begin to see.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Instead of supposing that there is some unknown cause, the "real" table, behind the different sensations of those who are said to be looking at the table, we may take the whole set of these sensations (together possibly with certain other particulars) as actually BEING the table.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

Considering the dangerous situation of Du Pont, he but feebly opposed his intention of leaving Chateau-le-Blanc, on the following day, but drew from him a promise of a longer visit, when he could return with safety to his peace.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

To a quart of milk, put two thirds of a cup of tapioca, five or six eggs, a dessert spoonful of butter, a cup of sugar, a teaspoonful of salt, and flavor with lemon, nutmeg, or extract of rose.
— from The Young Housekeeper's Friend Revised and Enlarged by Mrs. (Mary Hooker) Cornelius

It was seen that the flag of distress was down, as already mentioned, and after Baxter and Lesher had departed, Tom and Dick set off to put the flag up once more.
— from The Rover Boys on Land and Sea: The Crusoes of Seven Islands by Edward Stratemeyer

The boy brought his quirt down sharply on the pony's flank, at the same time pressing the pointless rowels of his spurs against the sides of the frightened animal.
— from The Pony Rider Boys in Texas; Or, The Veiled Riddle of the Plains by Frank Gee Patchin

The yellow ducks sit on the dam, With left wing gathered low; So on each other do they lean, And their attachment show.
— from Chinese Literature Comprising the Analects of Confucius, the Sayings of Mencius, the Shi-King, the Travels of Fâ-Hien, and the Sorrows of Han by Faxian

When you partake, if it be your habit to do so, of the beverage called porter, drink it as you would water, or any other liquid.
— from The Comic English Grammar: A New and Facetious Introduction to the English Tongue by Percival Leigh

And then, bereft of this dim sense of companionship, he stared wide-eyed in the darkness, feeling the only creature alive and awake in all the world.
— from The Phantoms of the Foot-Bridge, and Other Stories by Mary Noailles Murfree

The rudely scratched anchor told of a hope that reached forward beyond this world and laid hold on the great realities of the world to come; the dove spoke of the brooding peace of God, which kept the heart and the mind amid persecution and affliction 221.png
— from The Catacombs of Rome, and Their Testimony Relative to Primitive Christianity by W. H. (William Henry) Withrow