We have to allow, first, for limitation of sympathy; since in every age and country the sympathy of an average man with other sentient beings, and even his egoistic regard for their likings and aversions, has been much more limited than the influence of his actions on the feelings of others.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

It consists of 115 stanzas composed in the Mandākrānta metre of four lines of seventeen syllables.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

Unless we make some special effort of recollection, the face is likely to come before us with an average expression, very blurred and vague, but we can at will recall how our friend looked on some special occasion when he was pleased or angry or unhappy, and this enables us to realize the generalized character of the vague image.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

— ug sulti speak in a disorganized way as if mentally deranged. — ug úlu have a light-headed feeling from lack of sleep, seasickness, and the like.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Sir, fare you well: I wish you all the joys of a bless'd father; And, for my faith, lay this unto your breast,— Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
— from The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

For the rest, the only thing to eat—though it didn't look eatable in the least—I saw in their possession was a few lumps of some stuff like half-cooked dough, of a dirty lavender colour, they kept wrapped in leaves, and now and then swallowed a piece of, but so small that it seemed done more for the looks of the thing than for any serious purpose of sustenance.
— from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Of course, that was true, though there is nothing I envy more than the courage of ruthlessness—one of the first laws of social self-preservation.
— from The Secret Life: Being the Book of a Heretic by Elizabeth Bisland

And therefore if my being far from hence be very grievous to me, and I find it a great pain that I am not where I wish to be, that grief shall in great part grow for lack of sure setting and settling my mind in God, where it should be.
— from Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens by More, Thomas, Saint

We could not starve, or die of thirst, or faint for lack of sleep, since every bush was a bed in spite of the garapatos or wood-ticks, the snore of the tree-toad, the hoarse shriek of the macaw, and the shrill gird of the guinea- fowl.
— from No Defense, Volume 3. by Gilbert Parker

It is not to be wondered at that the favourable reports sent home by these missionaries encouraged those who received them to believe that almost all difficulties had already been, or were in a fair way of being speedily overcome, and that these distant islands were, to use the figurative language of Scripture, “stretching out their hands unto God.”
— from Captain Cook: His Life, Voyages, and Discoveries by William Henry Giles Kingston

A full life of Shelley should be written at once, while the materials for it continue in reach; not to minister to the curiosity of the public, but to obliterate the last stain of that false life which was forced on the public's attention before it had any curiosity on the matter,—a biography composed in harmony with the present general disposition to have faith in him, yet not shrinking from a candid statement of all ambiguous passages, through a reasonable confidence that the most doubtful of them will be found consistent with a belief in the eventual perfection of his character, according to the poor limits of our humanity.
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

Birth and education of Sir John Herschel—Honours at Cambridge—First publication—Continues his scientific studies—His numerous literary contributions—His devotion to his father's reputation—The forty-foot telescope—Herschel's observations on the double and triple stars—On the refraction and polarization of light—Catalogue of nebulae and star-clusters—Voyage to Cape Town—Letter to Miss Herschel—Study of the southern heavens—Return to England—Distinctions conferred upon him—His "Familiar Lectures on Scientific Subjects"—His description of volcanoes and earthquakes—Continual changes in the configuration of the earth—Violent earthquakes—Phenomena of volcanic eruptions—In Mexico—In the island of Sumbawa—Herschel's theory of volcanic forces—His character CHAPTER V. Caroline Herschel's devotion to her brother William—Her grief and solitariness at his death—Reflections on the mutability of human things—Aunt and nephew—A parsimonious government—Miss Herschel's gold medal—South on Sir William's discoveries—On Miss Herschel's devotion—Her own astronomical discoveries—Her life at Hanover—Her wonderful memory—Anecdotes of Sir John Herschel—Correspondence between aunt and nephew—The path of duty—Sir John's visit to Miss Herschel—Reminiscences of early years—A nonogenarian—A Christmas in Hanover—Last days of Caroline Herschel—Her death—Her epitaph THE STORY OF THE HERSCHELS.
— from The Story of the Herschels, a Family of Astronomers Sir William Herschel, Sir John Herschel, Caroline Herschel by Anonymous