I have spoken more fully on this head in another place.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

No existence is of moment to a man, not even his own, unless it touches his will and fulfils or thwarts his intent.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Simultaneously with the fortification of Decelea, at the very beginning of spring, they sent thirty ships round Peloponnese, under Charicles, son of Apollodorus, with instructions to call at Argos and demand a force of their heavy infantry for the fleet, agreeably to the alliance.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Here the man is going from a general principle or relation to special features that accompany it, to particulars,—not back, however, merely to the original particulars (which would be fruitless or take him in a circle), but to new details, the actual discovery or nondiscovery of which will test the principle.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

I must appeal to you, like the river Scamander in Homer, who, when beleaguered by Achilles, summons the Simois to aid him, saying: 'Brother dear, let us both together stay the force of the hero (Il.).
— from Protagoras by Plato

Holmes took each face of the house in turn, and examined it with great interest.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

[263] Whereas he who has made one blunder after another, and still lies in middle life among the failures at the foot of the hill, is liable to grow [Pg 307] all sicklied o'er with self-distrust, and to shrink from trials with which his powers can really cope.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Now that I am diagnosing my illness and prescribing for myself, from time to time I hope that I am deceived by my own illness, that I am mistaken in regard to the albumen and the sugar I find, and in regard to my heart, and in regard to the swellings I have twice noticed in the mornings; when with the fervour of the hypochondriac I look through the textbooks of therapeutics and take a different medicine every day, I keep fancying that I shall hit upon something comforting.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

So they did not abstain; and, in the midst of the uproar, there was a frightful concert of blasphemies and enormities of all the unbridled tongues, the tongues of clerks and students restrained during the rest of the year, by the fear of the hot iron of Saint Louis.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

The handsome fittings and furnishings of the house in Sackville Street were piled thick and high over the skeleton up-stairs, and if it ever whispered from under its load of upholstery, 'Here I am in the closet!'
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

"Everything points to the likelihood that the universal failure of the harvest in 1916 will be followed by a like universal failure in 1917.
— from In the World War by Czernin von und zu Chudenitz, Ottokar Theobald Otto Maria, Graf

The furniture of the hut is of the roughest description—a roll of blankets for bedding, a bucket, a tin wash-basin, and a tin mug, with perhaps a cracked looking-glass four inches square.
— from Harper's Round Table, April 7, 1896 by Various

Their houses are built about the hill on euery side, in forme round, and 25 foote broad, and in mounting vpwards they goe narower and narower, leauing at the top a litle hole, whereat the aire commeth in to giue light to the house, and the flore of the house is so hot, that being within they feele no cold at all.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation — Volume 12 America, Part I by Richard Hakluyt

And Peisistratos having accepted the proposal and made an agreement on these terms, they contrived with a view to his return a device the most simple by far, as I think, that ever was practised, considering at least that it was devised at a time when the Hellenic race had been long marked off from the Barbarian as more skilful and further removed from foolish simplicity, and among the Athenians who are accounted the first of the Hellenes in ability.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

Whilst the steed, scantily supplied with old straw, runs in the pasture during every season of the year, the mule, on the failure of the herbage, is pampered on barley and on the best of teff fodder, and, sheltered from the cold bleak wind, remains a constant inmate of the master’s dwelling, on terms of close intimacy with the family.
— from The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis, Sir

By the time Dave gained the highway leading to Barnett, Ward Porton had reached the vicinity of the first of the houses in the village.
— from Dave Porter and His Double; Or, The Disapperarance of the Basswood Fortune by Edward Stratemeyer

Dr Haug, on the other hand,(3) in a paper read in 1871, admits that the present form of the hymn is not older than the greater part of the hymns of the tenth book, and than those of the Atharva Veda; but he adds, "The ideas which the hymn contains are certainly of a primeval antiquity....
— from Myth, Ritual and Religion, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Andrew Lang