Where any thing is doubtful, the ties of society, and the laws of humanity, claim a favourable interpretation; but remember, my dear child, that those of discretion have an equal claim to your regard.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

Evangel of Jean-Jacques, and most other Evangels, becoming incredible, what is there for it but return to the old Evangel of Mammon?
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

At a conversation with the General after our interview, wherein I offered to go with him on Monday morning to Mr. Stanton, and to say that it was our joint opinion be should resign, it was found impossible by reason of his (General Grant) going to Richmond and my going to Annapolis.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

The literature which they brought to England is remarkable for its bright, romantic tales of love and adventure, in marked contrast with the strength and somberness of Anglo-Saxon poetry.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Then tall Pandarus leaps forward, in burning rage at his brother's death: 'This is not the palace of Amata's dower,' he cries, 'nor does Ardea enclose Turnus in her native walls.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

Memory aims at filling the gap with an image which has at some particular time filled it before, reasoning with one which bears certain time-and space-relations to the images before and after"— or, to use perhaps clearer language, one which stands in determinate logical relations to those data round about the gap which filled our mind at the start.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

“Can I, for instance, be responsible for you?”
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[ The office of vizier was superseded by the emir al Omra, Imperator Imperatorum, a title first instituted by Radhi, and which merged at length in the Bowides and Seljukides: vectigalibus, et tributis, et curiis per omnes regiones praefecit, jussitque in omnibus suggestis nominis ejus in concionibus mentionem fieri, (Abulpharagius, Dynart.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Then the heaven melts with tenderness for the death of the bird; “it wails for it by raining, wailing a funeral wail.”
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

We found in Batavia Road a great many ships at anchor, most Dutch, and but one English ship named the Fleet frigate, commanded by one Merry.
— from A Continuation of a Voyage to New Holland, Etc. in the Year 1699 by William Dampier

In a little while, Poseidonia was an obscure Roman town famous only for its beautiful roses.
— from Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Evelyn Lilian Hazeldine Carrington, contessa

There they experienced so much difficulty in the search for their master's body, in consequence of the horrible mixture of the corpses, that they might have searched till the perilous return of daylight, had not the moon, at the close of a prayer of Medoro's, sent forth its beams right on the spot where the king was lying.
— from Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 2 by Leigh Hunt

As soon as the first flash of the tragic shock had passed, and even on the instant the mob began firing, Inspector Bonfield rallied the policemen who remained unscathed, and ordered a running fire of revolvers on the desperate Anarchists.
— from Anarchy and Anarchists A History of the Red Terror and the Social Revolution in America and Europe; Communism, Socialism, and Nihilism in Doctrine and in Deed; The Chicago Haymarket Conspiracy and the Detection and Trial of the Conspirators by Michael J. Schaack

May it please the Tribunal, while the film is being rewound I wish to say that attached to the affidavits offered in evidence is a description of every picture shown in this film.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 3 by Various

Between the houses, filling up each space, The broad, green-leaved, luxuriant plantain grows, Bearing huge bunches of most wholesome fruit; The orange too is there, and grateful lime; The Inga pendent hangs its yard-long pods (Whose flowers attract the fairy humming-birds); The guava, and the juicy, sweet cashew, And a most graceful palm, which bears a fruit In bright red clusters, much esteem'd for food; And there are many more which Indians Esteem, and which have only Indian names.
— from Travels on the Amazon by Alfred Russel Wallace