I can see there, in every young and old man, after his kind, and in every woman after hers, a true personality, develop'd, exercised proportionately in body, mind, and spirit.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

The creature who crept into my house that night was, on Jekyll’s own confession, known by the name of Hyde and hunted for in every corner of the land as the murderer of Carew. HASTIE LANYON H2 anchor HENRY JEKYLL’S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE I was born in the year 18— to a large fortune, endowed besides with excellent parts, inclined by nature to industry, fond of the respect of the wise and good among my fellowmen, and thus, as might have been supposed, with every guarantee of an honourable and distinguished future.
— from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

The old question will be asked in this matter of prerogative, But who shall be judge when this power is made a right use of one answer: between an executive power in being, with such a prerogative, and a legislative that depends upon his will for their convening, there can be no judge on earth; as there can be none between the legislative and the people, should either the executive, or the legislative, when they have got the power in their hands, design, or go about to enslave or destroy them.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

I experienced pleasure in being able to exasperate him: the sense of pleasure woke my instinct of self-preservation, so I fairly broke free; and if ever I come into his hands again he is welcome to a signal revenge.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Indeed, if Cox had been in the Treasury and Boutwell in the Interior, one would have been quite satisfied as far as personal relations went, while, in the Attorney-General's Office, Judge Hoar seemed to fill every possible ideal, both personal and political.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

A series of essays published in Bradford's Philadelphia Weekly Mercury , six of which only are ascribed to Franklin.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

'For my own part, I wish our reports had been sent back from Hilas, or even Leh.' 'The English post is better and safer.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

Challenge the statement, and science can only repeat it oracularly, or else prove it by showing that such ascertainment and correction bring man all sorts of other goods which man's heart in turn declares.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

The Monarchy of July sent him as Ambassador to England, where he mixed in local politics, for example, plotting against Lord Palmerston, whose brusque manners he disliked; and in 1838 he ended his strange life with some dignity, having, as one of his eulogists puts it, been faithful to every Government he had served as long as it was possible to save them.
— from Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 15 by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne

Where the idea of pure spirit has been established amongst educated people, it becomes necessary for those who believe in ghosts and have forgotten their soul-stuff to explain how a spirit can manifest itself to eye, ear, nose, hand, without a physical body, by “materialising” itself, as invisible vapour (say one’s own breath on a frosty morning) condenses into a cloud or into dew; for the power of analogy as an aid to thought, or as a substitute for it, is not yet exhausted.
— from The Origin of Man and of His Superstitions by Carveth Read

Extreme Puritanism is better than the reign of lawlessness which characterized many frontier settlements in later years.
— from A Century Too Soon: The Age of Tyranny by John R. (John Roy) Musick

Nevertheless, the course of events tended inevitably to the approaching union of the two crowns under a common sovereign—invasion from England had wholly ceased—and though the aged Elizabeth would not acknowledge the title of James to her glorious throne, every politician in both countries was aware that the time was not distant, when the policy inaugurated by Edward I., and pursued by every great English monarch, of joining together the whole of the island, would be consummated without civil war or bloodshed.
— from British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIII January and April, 1871 by Various

Thus it is from the study of the living individual only, that we have so far gained elemental principles in biology.
— from The Science and Philosophy of the Organism by Hans Driesch

The English are not a coffee-house-going people: that time which other nations spend in them, the Englishman passes in business, or with his family.
— from A Five Years' Residence in Buenos Ayres, During the years 1820 to 1825 Containing Remarks on the Country and Inhabitants; and a Visit to Colonia Del Sacramento by George Thomas Love

Notwithstanding that Miss Bishop called upon him at his own rooms at half-past nine at night, when all young ladies who valued their reputations would be either playing incompetent bridge in the suburban home, or going respectably with relations to a harmless piece at the theatre, she took the other fact well into consideration—gave it full weight—and all in that brief moment of a pause, realized that as yet there was no intimacy between these two.
— from Sally Bishop: A Romance by E. Temple (Ernest Temple) Thurston

Many of the experimental programs in bioscience are being carried out or planned so that the deleterious effects of these phenomena may be determined, predicted, or avoided before they are encountered in manned flight.
— from Significant Achievements in Space Bioscience 1958-1964 by United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

A recollection of the rôle that Ea plays in Babylonian mythology survives in the titles of 'creator' and 'king of the ocean,' which Shalmaneser gives him, [309] and of the 'one who opens the fountains' as Ashurbanabal declares.
— from The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow

When a man barked at his wife for a cocoanut and she handed him a baby or a bowl of soup or an evening paper it became necessary, in order to minimise her alternatives, that he should elaborate his bark to meet this and an hundred other circumstances.
— from Here are Ladies by James Stephens