The general meaning of the passage 508 –511, so far as the thought contained in it admits of being translated into the terms of modern philosophy, may be described or explained as follows:—There is a truth, one and self-existent, to which by the help of a ladder let down from above, the human intelligence may ascend.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

He further announced that his infant son was the god Krishna; that he would drive out the English, and rule the country himself; and that, to effect this, he would arm his followers with bamboos, which would be turned by magic into guns, and would change the weapons of the authorities into water.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

BEATEN The merry company with one accord avouched that which Talano had seen in sleep to have been no dream, but a vision, so punctually, without there failing aught thereof, had it come to pass.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

“But perhaps you snatched your inheritance from your father and threw him into prison?” “Never!
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Forasmuch as they hang in my memory by only this one slender thread, I don't know what they did, except that they forbore to remove me.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

The King, it seems, seemed not very much displeased with what the Duke had said; but, however, he is still in the Tower, and no discourse of his being out in haste, though my Lady Castlemayne hath so far solicited for him that the King and she are quite fallen out: he comes not to her, nor hath for some three or four days; and parted with very foul words, the King calling her a whore, and a jade that meddled with things she had nothing to do with at all: and she calling him fool; and told him if he was not a fool, he would not suffer his businesses to be carried on by fellows that did not understand them, and cause his best subjects, and those best able to serve him, to be imprisoned; meaning the Duke of Buckingham.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Montaigne has seen that we are shocked at a fool, and that habit is all-powerful; but he has not seen the reason of this effect.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

It was as he said, that they now fought with stakes; because, in the first assault, they had imprudently used up all their missile weapons and stones; and now when the Christians saw the number of their stakes diminishing, they clave each stake in two.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

At the time when Shakspeare was in the fulness of his talent, and seizing upon everything that could furnish aliment to his imagination, the colonization of Virginia was a favorite object of enterprise among people of condition in England, and several of the courtiers of the court of
— from Wolfert's Roost, and Miscellanies by Washington Irving

The individual costumes, the furniture, and the hall itself, are represented with scrupulous fidelity, all of which tends to increase the interest inspired by this painting.
— from Peculiarities of American Cities by Willard W. Glazier

For about two hours I saw the stars, and very cheery and companionable they looked; but then the mist fell, and I saw nothing more, except such apparitions as visited Ossian on the hill-side when he went out by night and struck the bosky shield and called to him the spirits of the heroes and the white-armed maids with their blue eyes of grief.
— from At Home And Abroad; Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe by Margaret Fuller

I held out my hand in friendship, and this time I would gladly have stopped for a talk had I not seemed to read in his eyes an entreaty to pass on without speaking.
— from The Surprises of Life by Georges Clemenceau

Arnauld, who was now in the field, estimated the total yearly income of the Jesuits at more than two million livres ; he said [Pg 123] that in France alone they had, in a few years, secured an income of two hundred thousand livres a year, and he eloquently denounced their interference in politics.
— from A Candid History of the Jesuits by Joseph McCabe

It is the first signal of welcome or friendship after the hand is offered, and they will have no business or other transaction previous to it.
— from The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Volume 1 (of 2) by Hazard Stevens

And when he had reached it, he found it to be securely fastened, and to have in front of it, at a distance of no more than a yard, a blank whitewashed wall which evidently rose from a passage between that and the next house.
— from The Middle of Things by J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher

Look, the figs are fresh, and the ham is tender, and this is wine from Cyprus, just as good as what the doge would drink.
— from Andrea Delfin by Paul Heyse