[ A very curious coincidence with the ancient German opinion concerning the prophetic nature of the war-cry or song, appears in the following passage of the Life of Sir Ewen Cameron, in "Pennant's Tour," 1769, Append, p. 363.
— from The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus

And thus, when the small parts are placed side by side with the larger, and the lesser divide the greater and the greater unite the lesser, all the elements are borne up and down and hither and thither towards their own places; for the change in the size of each changes its position in space.
— from Timaeus by Plato

Each couple is paired for the evening—you will never see them change about.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Every secret is told, every crime is punished, every virtue rewarded, every wrong redressed, in silence and certainty.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Engaged Couple In Public There is said to be still preserved somewhere in Massachusetts a whispering reed through the long hollow length of which lovers were wont to whisper messages of tenderness to each other while separated by a room's length and the inevitable chaperonage of the fiancée's entire family.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

[151] [2] Remove skin, tissues, bones, etc., cut in pieces and marinate in the pickle.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

The editor cannot, indeed, pretend to have followed his author, in these gleanings, over the whole vast field of his inquiries; he may have overlooked or may not have been able to command some works, which might have thrown still further light on these subjects; but he trusts that what he has adduced will be of use to the student of historic truth.
— 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

In the case of man, the empirical character is peculiar to every individual (indeed, as we shall see in the Fourth Book, even to the extent of supplanting entirely the character of the species, through the self-surrender of the whole will).
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Having by Farinata’s advice been filled with wine before a skirmish in which they were induced to engage, they were easily cut in pieces by the Florentines; and the royal standard was dragged in the dust.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

The fall of snowflakes in a still air, preserving to each crystal its perfect form; the blowing of sleet over a wide sheet of water, and over plains; the waving rye-fields; the mimic waving of acres of houstonia, whose innumerable florets whiten and ripple before the eye; the reflections of trees and flowers in glassy lakes; the musical steaming odorous south wind, which converts all trees to wind-harps; [475] the crackling and spurting of hemlock in the flames; or of pine-logs, which yield glory to the walls and faces in the sitting-room,—these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The death-rate of the New England cities is perhaps safely put at twenty-one per thousand, while that of Australia is shown to be seventeen per thousand,—a statement equally applicable to New Zealand and Tasmania.
— from Under the Southern Cross Or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands by Maturin Murray Ballou

Sense experience presents itself ever more decidedly as something which can tolerate neither partner nor rival; the life directed towards it loses more and more the nature of being an opponent, which it hitherto had, and it undertakes to shape our whole existence characteristically in positive achievement and also to satisfy the spiritual needs of man completely.
— from Life's Basis and Life's Ideal: The Fundamentals of a New Philosophy of Life by Rudolf Eucken

held for many hours.—Sometimes an expressive attitude, clinching of the fist, contraction of the brows, will gradually set up a sympathetic action of the other muscles of the body, so that at last a tableau vivant of fear, anger, disdain, prayer, or other emotional condition, is produced with rare perfection.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 2 (of 2) by William James

The other main personage is Daniel Deronda, who has been brought up as an Englishman of rank, has a striking face and person, a natural love for all that is beautiful and noble, a good sense that enables him to see through the banalities of English political life and to shrink from involving his own existence in such littleness, and who, after some preliminary account of his youth in the earlier chapters, is placed before us early in the first book as a young man of twenty who is seriously asking himself whether life is worth living.
— from The English Novel and the Principle of its Development by Sidney Lanier

By Andrew Wilson , Ph.D., F.R.S. Edin. &c. [ In preparation.
— from The Evolutionist at Large by Grant Allen

It is well known that power grows with exercise, and when we habitually use the will in controlling the emotional centres its power continually increases.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. by Various

Some years ago, a suitor in the Court of Exchequer complained in person to the chief baron, that he was quite ruinated , and could go on no further!
— from Personal Sketches of His Own Times, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Barrington, Jonah, Sir