It was said that the early productions of her own pencil exhibited no inferior genius, though perhaps the rude atmosphere of New England had cramped her hand and dimmed the glowing colors of her fancy.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In despair the Eagle now implored great Jupiter to let her place her eggs in his lap.
— from The Aesop for Children With pictures by Milo Winter by Aesop

Exercises, naked, in Greece, 5. 452 .
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

“No,” cried he, becoming more and more eager, “Napoleon is great because he rose superior to the Revolution, suppressed its abuses, preserved all that was good in it—equality of citizenship and freedom of speech and of the press—and only for that reason did he obtain power.”
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

This entire number is geometrical and contains the rule or law of generation.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

For nature hath made us equal, but fortune hath some exalted and others deprived; nevertheless is virtue often deprived and the virtuous men despised; for before the last end none is good.’
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

That good man, who, when I was young, gelded so many noble and ancient statues in his great city, that they might not corrupt the sight of the ladies, according to the advice of this other ancient worthy: “Flagitii principium est, nudare inter gives corpora,” [“‘Tis the beginning of wickedness to expose their persons among the citizens”—Ennius, ap.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

The whole world waits to see what this great Eastern nation is going to do with the opportunities and responsibilities she has accepted from the hands of the modern time.
— from Nationalism by Rabindranath Tagore

An erroneous notion is generally entertained that the deserts of America are peopled by European emigrants, who annually disembark upon the coasts of the New World, whilst the American population increases and multiplies upon the soil which its forefathers tilled.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

“You see, then, why I must decline your polite invitation, which is especially attractive to me, because nothing is so wearisome as to play night after night with the same person; the chances always balance and at the month’s end nothing is gained or lost.”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

Oh! in my youth, this hour has been to me Bright as the fairy arch upon the clouds Of earthly grief and gloom, and even now It gives the silent fountain of my heart A renovated action, and recalls The energies that long ago were mine.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 564, September 1, 1832 by Various

To us this variety of occupations may appear very strange, but among the unsettled and ambitious population of the United States, men at the age of fifty have been, or at least have tried to be, everything, not in gradation, from the lowest up to the highest, but just as it may happen—doctor yesterday and waiter to-day—the Yankee philosopher will to-morrow run for a seat in legislature; if he fails, he may turn a Methodist preacher, a Mormon, a land-speculator, a member of the “Native American Society,” or a mason—that is to say, a journeyman mason.
— from Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet by Frederick Marryat

Perhaps in course of time we may have an Exchange for thought; in fact, even now ideas, good or bad, have their consols, are bought up, imported, exported, sold, and quoted like stocks.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

THE VALLEY OF GURAIS CHAPTER III 63 SRINAGAR AND NEIGHBOURHOOD Entering now into greater detail, first among the places of interest to be described must be Srinagar, the City of the Sun, the capital of the country, and the dwelling-place of 120,000 inhabitants.
— from Kashmir, described by Sir Francis Younghusband, painted by Major E. Molyneux by Younghusband, Francis Edward, Sir

This form of corruption is said to exist even now in Greece, where bribery of electors is very rare.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, January 1885, No. 4 by Chautauqua Institution

Now, as a reward, I shall show you how— To Make a Sanitary Drinking Cup from Any Piece of Clean Paper FOOTNOTE: [B] The full list of remedies, with explanatory notes, is given in the Ready Reference List at the end of this book.
— from The Mary Frances First Aid Book With Ready Reference List of Ordinary Accidents and Illnesses, and Approved Home Remedies by Jane Eayre Fryer