Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools which humanity has so far devised for effectively directed reflection.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

And if I do not there is penance given— Comfort your sorrows; for they do not flow From evil done; right sure am I of that, Who see your tender grace and stateliness.
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

But all the same, if in spite of all the obvious disadvantages you foresee, more and more come forward every day ready to fight for the common cause, it will be able to do without you.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Peloponnesians now levied a contribution of thirty-two talents from the Rhodians, after which they hauled their ships ashore and for eighty days remained inactive.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Le concept de FTPress est de réaliser des médias professionnels spécialisés chacun dans un secteur économique: la santé, l'automobile, l'image numérique, les ressources humaines, la logistique, etc.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

But all is fairer still by night: Each rock reflects a softer light, When the whole mount from foot to crest In robes of lambent flame is dressed; When from a million herbs a blaze Of their own luminous glory plays, And clothed in fire each deep ravine, Each pinnacle and crag is seen.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

congrégation , f. , ensemble de religieux du même ordre.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

feorsian to go beyond : put far from, expel : depart, remove, separate .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Internet est un nouveau type de ressource utilisable pour chercher, produire et stocker des connaissances, à ce titre les activités de formation et de recherche ne peuvent l'ignorer.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

As Mrs. Hungerford had heard nothing more of Count Altenberg, she wisely forbore to touch upon the subject, or even to mention his name to Caroline; and she saw, with satisfaction, the care with which her young friend turned her mind from every dangerous recollection.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 07 Patronage [part 1] by Maria Edgeworth

"Dat ist ferry easy; 'down rent, eh?'" "Sartain Jarman, eh?—you no spy?—you no sent here by gubbernor, eh?—landlord no pay you, eh?"
— from The Chainbearer; Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper

Naturally, I soon asked to be presented to the lady of the house, and the count escorted us through a series of rooms to a salon furnished much like any handsome apartment in Paris or St. Petersburg, where the countess, with other ladies, all in full evening dress, received us cordially.
— from Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 2 by Andrew Dickson White

Quite recently, for example, Dr Rendel Harris advanced the theory that Aphrodite was originally a mandrake, while Professor Elliot Smith contends that her 'larval form' was that of the cowrie-shell.
— from An Introduction to Mythology by Lewis Spence

Good men and honest men are found in every faith, and they are not honest or dishonest because they are Jews or Gentiles, but for entirely different reasons.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

These, like everything else—omitting possibly the extreme " feeling " exercised during religious worship—was patterned after white custom; but, insofar as the Negro is concerned, a great deal more stress and effort and feeling was put into the things mentioned.
— from The Forged Note: A Romance of the Darker Races by Oscar Micheaux

Scarcely less in evidence were photographs, propped against walls, ornaments, and flower jars; long, narrow, highly glazed European photographs with white backgrounds, uniformed officers, sentimentally posed engaged couples, young mothers in full evening dress reading to barefooted babies out of gingerly held picture books.
— from The Title Market by Emily Post

But, for example, “Dave” Rossiter, in Stuart & Stern’s office, stupidly received the wrong tip six times in succession.
— from The Tipster 1901, From "Wall Street Stories" by Edwin Lefevre