As the standard of perfection is internal and is measured by the satisfaction felt in realising it, every artist has tasted, in his activity, what activity essentially is.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

The fight is restored in every part, as far as their onset reached; nor was there a doubt but that if so few could, accomplish every thing at the same time, the enemy would have turned their backs.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

When an aristocracy excludes the leaders of that profession from its ranks, it excites enemies which are the more formidable to its security as they are independent of the nobility by their industrious pursuits; and they feel themselves to be its equal in point of intelligence, although they enjoy less opulence and less power.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

The Romans built altars Diis Asiae, Europae, Lybiae, diis ignotis et peregrinis : others otherwise, &c. Plinius Secundus, as appears by his Epistle to Trajan, would not have the Christians so persecuted, and in some time of the reign of Maximinus, as we find it registered in Eusebius lib.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The second fault, I repeat, is entire want of reality, and hence of possible efficacy.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

"An extraordinary work, which has earned for itself a lasting place in the literature of the country, and within a few years found innumerable readers in every part of the globe.
— from Catalogue of Messrs Blackwood and Sons' Publications Published in 1868 as a Part of The Handy Horse-Book by Maurice Hartland Mahon by William Blackwood and Sons

If the lake was originally on a level with the valley, it would soon have formed incrustations round its edge, which every casual or permanent overflow would have tended to raise; and thus, in the course of ages, the entire hill may have been formed by a mere accumulation of petrefactions.
— from The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 3: Media The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. by George Rawlinson

Scott seized the lantern, and began to flash it round in every direction.
— from The Manor House School by Angela Brazil

The thing which seemed to affect him most was the offence that would be taken at the repeal by the leaders among the Church clergy here, on one hand, and, on the other, the steps which would be taken for its repeal in England in the next session, in consequence of the repeal in Ireland.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

"No," he replied; he had not yet had the pleasure: he hoped he might; and, as he said so, he resolved to bear heavy on that fat, immovable rector, if ever he had the power of doing so.
— from Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope

And for a moment this look was more startling, more appalling than the other; he shrank from it, resented it even more.
— from The Inside of the Cup — Complete by Winston Churchill

The family is represented in England today by Thomas Brian, Thirteenth Lord Fairfax, great-great-grandson of Thomas, Ninth Lord Fairfax.
— from Seaport in Virginia George Washington's Alexandria by Gay Montague Moore

Taking into consideration the lonely position of the place, and the fact that the only males in it are servants who sleep in a remote corner of the house, they may have thought that it would be at once quicker, and would save them the trouble of breaking open a number of doors in the search for the plate-closet, to come at once to the owners, whom, they imagined, would readily be frightened into revealing its exact whereabouts."
— from A Search For A Secret: A Novel. Vol. 2 by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

We have seen that no created substance has all the perfection natural to its kind, tota simul or ab initio ( 46 ); that it fulfils its rôle in existence by development, by tending towards its full or final perfection.
— from Ontology, or the Theory of Being by P. (Peter) Coffey

When the Entente became hostile to Russia, the foreigners in Russian industry either left the country or assisted counter-revolution.
— from The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism by Bertrand Russell