Ramusio goes on to explain the light regarding the first part or prologue of Marco Polo's book that he had derived from a recent piece of luck which had made him partially acquainted with the geography of Abulfeda, and to make a running commentary on the whole of the preliminary narrative until the final return of the travellers to Venice:— "And when they got thither the same fate befel them as befel Ulysses, who, when he returned, after his twenty years' wanderings, to his native Ithaca, was recognized by nobody.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

On their part, masters require nothing of their servants but the faithful and rigorous performance of the covenant: they do not ask for marks of respect, they do not claim their love or devoted attachment; it is enough that, as servants, they are exact and honest.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

It pour'd down torrents, but they were no richer Until they found a ragged piece of sheet, Which served them as a sort of spongy pitcher, And when they deem'd its moisture was complete
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

The raising ‘of the ornamental [ 411 ] plumes by many birds during their courtship,’ mentioned by Mr. Darwin, is the more pleasing aspect of that emotion which, blending with fear and rage, puffs out the lizard’s throat, ruffles the cock’s neck, and raises the hair of the insane.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

The vessel glided smoothly on: amid the stillness of the hour Emily heard, now and then, the solitary voice of the barge-men on the bank, as they spoke to their horses; while, from a remote part of the vessel, with melancholy song, The sailor sooth'd, Beneath the trembling moon, the midnight wave.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

In the other Indies, to ride upon an elephant was the first and royal place of honour; the second to ride in a coach with four horses; the third to ride upon a camel; and the last and least honour to be carried or drawn by one horse only.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Massinger, Guardian , Wks. , p. 344: [210] —You shall fry first For a rotten piece of touchwood, and give fire To the great fiend’s nostrils, when he smokes tobacco!
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

Suddenly, however, at this crisis, an opening was made, almost by accident, for reconciliation with my friends; I quitted London in haste for a remote part of England; after some time I proceeded to the university, and it was not until many months had passed away that I had it in my power again to revisit the ground which had become so interesting to me, and to this day remains so, as the chief scene of my youthful sufferings.
— from Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey

Nowhere can we find a real proficiency or any new faculty as the result of those toilsome years!
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Unlike Hesiod he does not love to speak of what the gods did ‘in the morning of time’, things derived from a remote past of savage mythology; the incest, the [Pg 62] amours in animal form, the cannibalism, the outrage of Cronos on his father, the swallowing of Zeus.
— from Anthropology and the Classics Six Lectures Delivered Before the University of Oxford by Gilbert Murray

Hermonthis, the Aûnû of the South, occupied much the same position, from a religious point of view, as was held in the Delta by Heliopolis, the Aûnû of the North, and its god Montû, a form of the Solar Horus, disputed the supremacy with Mînû, of Koptos.
— from History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 2 (of 12) by G. (Gaston) Maspero

One may not care for a Rembrandt portrait of a plain old woman; a graceful Watteau decoration may leave another cold but foolish will he be who denies that both are faithful to their conceiving moods, and so proportioned part to part, and part to whole, as to have, each in its own way, that inherent rhythm or vitality which is the hall-mark of Art.
— from Studies and Essays: Censorship and Art by John Galsworthy

As one who is entirely ignorant of chemistry has no criteria by which to judge the future of chemistry, so the one having no personal consciousness of God, nor clear vision of the deeper meanings of life, has no data for a rational prediction of the future.
— from What and Where is God? A Human Answer to the Deep Religious Cry of the Modern Soul by Richard La Rue Swain

Nor can anything make me believe that he meant this for a real parting, or that she thought so.
— from Gods and Heroes; or, The Kingdom of Jupiter by R. E. (Robert Edward) Francillon

By virtue of the older culture of the south and the greater importance that Babylonia always enjoyed from a religious point of view, the sanctuaries of the south were much more numerous than those of the north.
— from The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow

As Bishops of the two Protestant Churches we protest against devout members of our congregations being punished merely for being considered Jews from a racial point of view.
— from The Grey Book A collection of protests against anti-semitism and the persecution of Jews issued by non-Roman Catholic churches and church leaders during Hitlers rule by Johan M. Snoek

Down in the hold of the vessel, whither the men were turned like so many sheep as soon as they arrived on board, they perhaps found a rough platform of deal planks provided for them to lie on, and from this they were at liberty to extract such sorry comfort as they could during the weary days and nights of their incarceration.
— from The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore by J. R. (John Robert) Hutchinson

The next undoubted influenza is reported from a rural part of Cheshire (Holme Chapel) in January, 1844, in the wake of an epidemic of scarlatina; it continued in all kinds of weather until June, and had a remarkable intercurrent episode, for some weeks from the middle of March, in the form of an epidemic of pneumonia among young children, which passed into mild bronchitis in the cases last attacked [738] .
— from A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 2 (of 2) From the Extinction of Plague to the Present Time by Charles Creighton

Yes, if one looks at Christ's teaching from a rationalistic point of view, it is so.
— from The Light Shines in Darkness by Tolstoy, Leo, graf