But if, in the end, a man of noble character comes to see, as the effect of his own experience, or by the lessons he learns from others, what it is that may be expected of men in general,—namely, that five-sixths of them are morally and intellectually so constituted that, if circumstances do not place you in relation with them, you had better get out of their way and keep as far as possible from having anything to do with them,—still, he will scarcely ever attain an adequate notion of their wretchedly mean and shabby nature: all his life long he will have to be extending and adding to the inferior estimate he forms of them; and in the meantime he will commit a great many mistakes and do himself harm.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by Arthur Schopenhauer

Wherefore, O men of Athens, I say to you, do as Anytus bids or not as Anytus bids, and either acquit me or not; but whichever you do, understand that I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times.
— from Apology by Plato

They bewail the dead, like the Egyptians and many other nations.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

The search of Cathay, after China had been found, excited and misled our navigators of the sixteenth century, in their attempts to discover the north-east passage.
— 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

But although she may prevent us from becoming man and wife, and I may marry some one else, and marry often, nothing that she can possibly do can alter my eternal devotion to you.
— from The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People by Oscar Wilde

In some of them, as we have seen, references to mythical events are made, or names of mythical ancestors are uttered.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

The first of these is now the manager of Prince Jawan Singh’s estates, a man of no talent; and the latter, his brother, was one of the ministers on my arrival at Udaipur.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

He has erected a multitude of new offices, by a self-assumed power , and sent hither swarms of new officers to harass our people and eat out their substance He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of new officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
— from The Life of George Washington, Vol. 2 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by John Marshall

No fear, I wanted none of that; the river was my dart, especially as my old nurse had always assured me of quite another kind of death than drowning, and, sure, she was known in my part of the world as a knowledgable woman.
— from Camp Fire Yarns of the Lost Legion by G. Hamilton-Browne

When in the manufacture of chamber acid, both the Gay-Lussac tower (cold, situated at the end of the chambers) and the Glover tower (hot, situated at the beginning of the plant, between the chambers and ovens for the production of SO 2 ) are employed, a mixture of nitrose ( i.e. the product of the Gay-Lussac tower) and chamber acid containing about 60 p.c.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume II by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

[1] [Pg 54] That ever among Men or Naiads sought Notice or name!—It quivers down the hill, Furrowing its shallow way with dubious will; 5 Yet to my mind this scanty Stream is brought [2] Oftener than Ganges or the Nile; a thought Of private recollection sweet and still!
— from The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 4 (of 8) by William Wordsworth

Nevertheless the Word is expressive and operative of beings, but is expressive and manifestive of non-beings.
— from Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

Then I ventured forth, bought a copy of the Herald , and lo, before my dazzled eyes appeared my own name.
— from Life on the Stage: My Personal Experiences and Recollections by Clara Morris

Last, the enormous capital required for the establishment and maintenance of new competing units tends to fortify the monopoly in its position and render the escape of the public from its grasp practically impossible.
— from Monopolies and the People by Charles Whiting Baker

Earle, Alice Morse: on New England wedding customs, ii, 140, 141; colonial drinks, 141 n. 5; early and frequent marriages in New England, 157 n. 2; breach of promise in New Netherland, 282 n. 1; joint wills in New Netherland, 283 n. 1; banns and license in New York province, 297, 298; Quaker marriage customs in Pennsylvania, 323 n. 5, 324, 325, 326; separations in New Netherland, 378; Lantsman's case, 379, 380; other cases, 380, 381.
— from A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 3 of 3 by George Elliott Howard

But who expects a man, or need expect himself, to be wise when he is in love?
— from Double Harness by Anthony Hope