So for centuries on end shrieked the demand of his acolytes and initiates.
— from The Genealogy of Morals The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“J’ en ai eu,” says he “l’original de Monsieur D’Avisson, medecin des mieux versez qui soient aujourd’huy dans la c�noissance des Belles Lettres, et sur tout de la Philosophic Naturelle.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

For as I had from that time begun to hold my own opinions for nought because I wished to subject them all to examination, I was convinced that I could not do better than follow in the meantime the opinions of the most judicious; and although there are some perhaps among the Persians and Chinese as judicious as among ourselves, expediency seemed to dictate that I should regulate my practice conformably to the opinions of those with whom I should have to live; and it appeared to me that, in order to ascertain the real opinions of such, I ought rather to take cognizance of what they practised than of what they said, not only because, in the corruption of our manners, there are few disposed to speak exactly as they believe, but also because very many are not aware of what it is that they really believe; for, as the act of mind by which a thing is believed is different from that by which we know that we believe it, the one act is often found without the other.
— from Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences by René Descartes

aujourd’huy dans la cõnoissance des Belles Lettres, et sur tout de la Philosophic Naturelle.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

For it is too paradoxical to say that the whole duty of man is summed up in the effort to attain an ideal state of social relations; and unless we say this, we must determine our duties to existing men in view of [20] existing circumstances: and this is what the student of Ethics seeks to do in a systematic manner.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

From every side the deadly pills came.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

If the prostate be wholly divided in either line of section, the pelvic fascia adhering to the base of this body will be equally subject to danger.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

Every branch of science was seriously studied there, and medicine received more and greater additions by the discoveries of the doctors and surgeons of Andalusia than it had gained during all the centuries that had elapsed since the days of Galen.
— from The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole

During his stay here, he heard that he had been tried at Athens, although absent, found guilty of sacrilege, and even sentenced to death.
— from The Story of the Greeks by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

“I vow y’are the fairest enticement, Eve, that ever trod the earth since the days of the first Garden.
— from A Daughter of Raasay: A Tale of the '45 by William MacLeod Raine

Malignity and envy, which ever seek to defame and villify the great, gave slanderous explanations of this almost paternal attachment; but wise and thoughtful men saw in this adoptive tenderness only what it plainly evinced,—the desire and hope of transmitting his immense power, and the grandest name in the universe, to an heir, indirect it is true, but of imperial blood, and who, reared under the eyes, and by the direction of the Emperor, would have been to him all that a son could be.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various

You only have to wait a minute and get in between...." Easier said than done!
— from Somehow Good by William De Morgan

Such children, as is brought out in the discussion of the subject in the chapter on obesity , are not healthy in the true sense of the word, are well known to be of lower resistive vitality than thinner infants, and easily succumb to diseases.
— from Psychotherapy Including the History of the Use of Mental Influence, Directly and Indirectly, in Healing and the Principles for the Application of Energies Derived from the Mind to the Treatment of Disease by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

You, whose strong natures are formed for warfare, cannot be so sensitive as we are to every spot that dims the brightness of your armor.
— from Vassall Morton: A Novel by Francis Parkman

I cannot help thinking that both the rhinoceros and this elephant roamed over the plains of Siberia, not only since the creation of man, but even since the Deluge.
— from The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Philip Henry Gosse

The war having originated in Napoleon's aggressions and his threats respecting Egypt and the Orient generally, Pitt resolved that England should thenceforth dominate both the sea route and the overland route to the East Indies.
— from William Pitt and the Great War by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose

The Premier: I will be prepared to believe anything of The Times , but really I do not tink it has ever suggested tat."— Daily Mail .
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-07-28 by Various