As I have no intention of writing a book about everything and nothing, I shall be excused from explaining in what regards the present education of men is absurd.
— from On Love by Stendhal

See also Mr. Lafcadio Hearn's Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan, Boston, 1894; and papers (The Eternal Feminine, etc.), in the Atlantic Monthly.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

MRS BREEN: (In a onepiece evening frock executed in moonlight blue, a tinsel sylph’s diadem on her brow with her dancecard fallen beside her moonblue satin slipper, curves her palm softly, breathing quickly.)
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Wherever thou beer drinkest, invoke to thee the power of earth; for earth is good against drink, fire for distempers, the oak for constipation, a corn-ear for sorcery, a hall for domestic strife.
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

We try to make the observation such that every factor entering into it, together with the mode and the amount of its operation, may be open to recognition.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

The happier state In Heaven, which follows dignity, might draw Envy from each inferior; but who here Will envy whom the highest place exposes Foremost to stand against the Thunderer's aim Your bulwark, and condemns to greatest share Of endless pain?
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

This act, however, did not prevent young Ellison from entering into possession, on his twenty-first birthday, as the heir of his ancestor Seabright, of a fortune of four hundred and fifty millions of dollars.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

If a man has faith, he will co-operate with equal faith everywhere; if he has not faith, he will continue to live like the rest of the world, whatever company he is joined to.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

Sometimes prepositions follow this rule: as, asportō , I carry off , for *absportō , suscipiō , I undertake , for *subscipiō ( subs formed from sub like abs from ab ; sub-cipiō gives succipiō ); occasionally also ecferō , for exferō , I carry out .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

The economists, for example, include in [Pg 281] their conception of society the intricate and complex maze of relations created by the competition and co-operation of individuals and societies within the limits of a world-wide economy.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

The effigies furnish excellent illustrations of the armour of their periods.
— from Somerset by J. H. (Joseph Henry) Wade

The evidence for epilepsy in Napoleon may seem to carry slightly more weight, for there is that in the moral character of Napoleon which we might very well associate with the epileptic temperament.
— from Essays in War-Time: Further Studies in the Task of Social Hygiene by Havelock Ellis

the whole, "if the poor Indians in the remote parts of North America are now able to pay for the linens, woollens, and iron ware, they are furnished with by English traders, though Indians have nothing but what they get by hunting, and the goods are loaded with all the impositions fraud and knavery can contrive, to inhance their value; will not industrious English farmers," employed in the culture of hemp, flax, silk, &c. "be able to pay for what shall be brought to them in the fair way of commerce;" and especially when it is remembered, that there is no other allowable market for the sale of these articles than in this kingdom?—And if "the growths of the country find their way out of it, will not the manufactures
— from Report of the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations on the Petition of the Honourable Thomas Walpole, Benjamin Franklin, John Sargent, and Samuel Wharton, Esquires, and their Associates 1772 by Great Britain. Board of Trade

The recommendations of the committee affirm that the work at Little Falls will be the most important and expensive single work, and would consist of a canal by which river craft can overcome the fall of nearly forty feet; in addition to the canal “a strong work ... to prevent the Canal and Locks from being overflowed, and damaged in high freshes; at this point two guard gates at the distance of seventy feet from each other must be placed; the surface of the ground here is eight feet eight inches above the level of the water in the river above the falls, and, as three feet ought to be given for the depth of the water in the Canal, the depth to be dug at this point will be nearly twelve feet....
— from The Great American Canals (Volume 2, The Erie Canal) by Archer Butler Hulbert

But so much of his character and experiences find embodiment in this book of his, that we should miss half its charm and more than half its significance, if we did not, to begin with, make ourselves acquainted with at least the larger facts of his existence.
— from Idle Hours in a Library by William Henry Hudson

If they get on, it is by vigorous economy following excessive industry.
— from Pleasant Talk About Fruits, Flowers and Farming by Henry Ward Beecher

On the 19th of June, 1811, Lieut.-General Sir James Craig embarked for England, in H.M.S. Amelia .
— from The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 by Charles Roger

An Englishwoman forces everything into form; though in her case the love of form does not produce the sentiment of art.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

But, since a direct comparison is in practice made between prices here and prices in England (for example), in order to determine whether the trade can be a profitable one, we constantly hear it said that we can not send goods abroad because our labor is so dear.
— from Principles of Political Economy Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical, and Explanatory Notes, and a Sketch of the History of Political Economy by John Stuart Mill

That physicians in England did possess a high social status as well as more extensive formal education is evidenced by a precaution taken by the Virginia Company, to avoid causing displeasure among men of rank, in preparing letters patent.
— from Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 by Thomas Proctor Hughes