The charges which strengthen our hands in the war against the Athenians would on our own showing be merited by ourselves, and more hateful in us than in those who make no pretensions to honesty; as it is more disgraceful for persons of character to take what they covet by fair-seeming fraud than by open force; the one aggression having for its justification the might which fortune gives, the other being simply a piece of clever roguery.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

It was situated in the centre of a flower plot of considerable extent in which the bushes were kept down and not allowed to attain any size.
— from Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover by Anonymous

Thirdly, there are the pleasures of sensibility, such as observation, thought, feeling, or a taste for poetry or culture, music, learning, reading, meditation, invention, philosophy and the like.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer

In general, and in particular for purposes of comparison of methods of brewing, they may be considered to be the same and to occur in about the same proportions in all coffees.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

In the street, his faintness passed off completely.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

] Note 23 ( return ) [ I take this Bezetha to be that small hill adjoining to the north side of the temple, whereon was the hospital with five porticoes or cloisters, and beneath which was the sheep pool of Bethesda; into which an angel or messenger, at a certain season, descended, and where he or they who were the "first put into the pool" were cured, John 5:1 etc.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

But if I ask, in reference to the final purpose of creation, why must men exist? then we are speaking of an objective supreme purpose, such as the highest Reason would require for creation.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

No doubt, under a government partially popular, this freedom may be exercised even by those who are not partakers in the full privileges of citizenship; but it is a great additional stimulus to any one's self-help and self-reliance when he starts from even ground, and has not to feel that his success depends on the impression he can make upon the sentiments and dispositions of a body of whom he is not one.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

We find that amidst all the harassing cares and ferocious passions of constant warfare he was alive to the softer feelings of connubial love and paternal tenderness and to the generous sentiment of friendship.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

Three pound of sugar, five pound of currants, rice- what will this sister of mine do with rice?
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

( Hubbard disengages himself from proximity of Connie, and starts to follow. )
— from Theft: A Play In Four Acts by Jack London

It is not uncharacteristic that these fervid praises of country life were left unfinished.
— from The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 by Robert Herrick

Gurley, Life of Jehudi Ashmun , appendix, p. 158. ADDRESS By the Citizens of Monrovia, to the free coloured people of the United States As much speculation and uncertainty continue to prevail among the free people of colour in the United States, respecting our situation and prospects in Africa; and many misrepresentations have been put in circulation there, of a nature slanderous to us , and in their effects injurious to them ; we feel it our duty by a true statement of our circumstances to endeavor to correct them.
— from The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 by Various

At about seven in the evening we got all our cargo shipped again and started up the lower Sikkildals lake—having first paid our charioteers 3 l. for the trip from Olstappen, three men, horses and sleighs, sixteen miles over the rockiest, brookiest, and juniperiest country in this world; and offered them whisky and 61 water all round, including two men from the sæter who came to our assistance when the smallest pony, not being accustomed to the deceitfulness and treacherous wiles of this life, got up to its neck in a bog close to the lake, and the man with the bag followed it.
— from Three in Norway, by Two of Them by Walter J. Clutterbuck

At every fifty paces our cavalry faced.
— from The British Expedition to the Crimea by Russell, William Howard, Sir

They were too much for poor old Char.
— from A Lady of England: The Life and Letters of Charlotte Maria Tucker by Agnes Giberne

The anthropological systems of Kant and Schelling furnish points of contact with it.
— from A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga: The Yoga of Wisdom by William Walker Atkinson

In taking the matter upon this ground, the first principle of civilization ought to have been, and ought still to be, that the condition of every person born into the world, after a state of civilization commences, ought not to be worse than if he had been born before that period.
— from The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 by Thomas Paine

This’ll affect you financially, poor old chap .”
— from Slaves of Freedom by Coningsby Dawson