From Leopol I proceeded to a small town, the name of which I forget (the Polish names are very crabbed) to take an introduction from Prince Lubomirski to Joseph Rzewuski, a little old man who wore a long beard as a sign of mourning for the innovations that were being introduced into his country.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

He is young and has never been abroad, never even seen a large city, and his parents have requested me, as an old family friend living in Paris, to see that he is placed under good influences.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

That we may inherit from this person, that we shall have to walk after the hearse of the other, though sociologically these facts belong to the definition of “family” and “family life,” in personal perspective of what family truly is to us, they normally stand very much in the background.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Failure, disgrace, poverty, sorrow, despair, suffering, tears even, the broken words that come from lips in pain, remorse that makes one walk on thorns, conscience that condemns, self-abasement that punishes, the misery that puts ashes on its head, the anguish that chooses sack-cloth for its raiment and into its own drink puts gall:—all these were things of which I was afraid.
— from De Profundis by Oscar Wilde

The former (legality) is possible even if inclinations have been the determining principles of the will; but the latter (morality), moral worth, can be placed only in this, that the action is done from duty, that is, simply for the sake of the law.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

Denique sit finis quaerendi, quoque habeas plus, Pauperiem metuas minus, et finire laborem Incipias; parto, quod avebas, utere.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Not vainly yet the forceful lance was thrown; It stretch'd in dust unhappy Lycophron: An exile long, sustain'd at Ajax' board, A faithful servant to a foreign lord; In peace, and war, for ever at his side, Near his loved master, as he lived, he died.
— from The Iliad by Homer

But the future life is present still; the ideal of politics is to be realized in the individual.
— from The Republic by Plato

We have known their husbands and fathers laid in prison and kept from them, often enough?
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

—Franklin landed in Philadelphia on Sunday morning (1723).
— from The Beginner's American History by D. H. (David Henry) Montgomery

When no current from London is passing through O , Q is held down by the spring, W´ , and the circuit of the local battery is broken; but the instant the line-current passes, the armature, W , is attracted, and Q makes contact with R , the current from the local battery rushes through the coils, A , and the appropriate movements of the printing lever are effected by its action.
— from Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century by Robert Routledge

[Page 225] TABLE XI Total Time Consumed by Operator in Handling Calls on Automanual System First 100 Calls Longest Individual Period 12.40 seconds Average five longest Individual Periods 7.44 seconds Average ten longest Individual Periods 6.34 seconds Shortest Individual Period 1.60 seconds Average five shortest Individual Periods 1.92 seconds Average ten shortest Individual Periods 1.96 seconds Average Entire 100 Calls 3.396 seconds Hourly Rate at which calls were being handled 1060 Second 100 Calls Longest Individual Period 7.60 seconds Average five longest Individual Periods 5.52 seconds Average ten longest Individual Periods 5.34 seconds Shortest Individual Period 2.00 seconds Average five shortest Individual Periods 2.04 seconds Average ten shortest Individual Periods 2.18 seconds Average Entire 100 Calls 3.374 seconds Hourly Rate at which calls were being handled 1067 Third 100 Calls Longest Individual Period 5.40 seconds Average five longest Individual Periods 5.32 seconds Average ten longest Individual Periods 4.44 seconds Shortest Individual Period 1.60 seconds Average five shortest Individual Periods 1.65 seconds Average ten shortest Individual Periods 1.80 seconds Average Entire 100 Calls 3.160 seconds Hourly Rate at which calls were being handled 1139
— from Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. by American School of Correspondence

Our whole future lies in the subsidy with which I must begin my first campaign, for life in Paris is one continual battle.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

3: Further, "Love is proved by deeds," as Gregory states (Hom. in Evang.
— from Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

Moreover, the war cost the Netherlanders far less in proportion.
— from History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609) by John Lothrop Motley

His family had formerly lived in Philadelphia, and till he went into the navy Bromley and Albina were in habits of daily intercourse.
— from Pencil Sketches; or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Eliza Leslie

At the second floor level it provides an extra room and a bath.
— from Huntley: A Mason Family Country House by Tony P. Wrenn

At first she bullied me until I hardly dared to call my soul my own; but when I found Letitia I plucked up spirit (you know a worm will turn), and ventured to defy her, and since that existence has been bearable." "Letitia, come to my defense," says Molly, in a tragic tone, stretching out her arms to her sister-in-law, who has been busy pacifying her youngest hope.
— from Molly Bawn by Duchess

He felt sure that this pressure upon his father lay in part back of the feeling of his parents toward him.
— from The Reign of Law; a tale of the Kentucky hemp fields by James Lane Allen