The sick man through fear of death eats what he naturally shrinks from, but the healthy man takes pleasure in his food, and thus gets a better enjoyment out of life, than if he were in fear of death, and desired directly to avoid it.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

When two young dogs in play are growling and biting each other's faces and legs, it is obvious that they mutually understand each other's gestures and manners.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

Des Cartes who (in his meditations) himself first, at least of the moderns, gave a beautiful example of this voluntary doubt, this self-determined indetermination, happily expresses its utter difference from the scepticism of vanity or irreligion: Nec tamen in Scepticos imitabar, qui dubitant tantum ut dubitent, et praeter incertitudinem ipsam nihil quaerunt.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Ah! you wonder that I should drag grass about, but every one must take his burthen on his back."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

The king’s children next arrived--the Princess Charlotte, a beautiful, fair-haired child, with tears in her eyes, and the Duke of Gloucester, a boy eight or nine years old, whose tearless eyes and curling lip revealed a growing pride.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

The following incidents will serve as representative specimens of these interruptions: Once, when the missionary was giving a brief exposition of the first chapter of St. John's Gospel—"In the beginning was the Word," etc., "'Logos' as 'word' here is in the Greek synonymous with 'Memrah' in the Rabbinical writings," he remarked.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

I am reaping even to-day both the good and bad effects of this habit. (25)
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore

I did not hanker after a three days’ celebrity as the man who got a black eye or something of the sort from the mate of the Patna.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

84 Note 81 ( return ) [ Ausonius (in Gratiarum Actione) basely expatiates on this unworthy topic, which is managed by Mamertinus (Panegyr.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

We are next informed that book-worms, a term which seems to be held applicable to whoever has the smallest tincture of book-knowledge, may not be good at bodily exercises, or have the habits of gentlemen.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

“Oh, a thing all gribbins and bones ,” explained Ohah.
— from The Missing Prince by G. E. (George Edward) Farrow

It is an instruction to the clergy on the duties of their office; dealing first minutely with their duty in baptism, unction, the eucharist, etc.; then it bids them to know by heart and explain to the people the Ten Commandments, and gives a brief explanation of each; then it goes on to explain the eight [210] capital vices.
— from Parish Priests and Their People in the Middle Ages in England by Edward Lewes Cutts

The aponeuroses of covering are placed sometimes around a muscle, to which they serve as a general sheath, as we see on the thigh, the fore-arm, &c.; sometimes upon certain muscles which they partially retain in their respective places, as that which goes from the posterior and superior serratus minor to the anterior and inferior, as the abdominal aponeurosis, as that situated anteriorly to the solæus, behind the deep muscles of the leg, &c. The aponeuroses of insertion are sometimes with surfaces more or less broad, as in the attachments of the triceps femoris, the rectus, the biceps, &c.; sometimes with fibres separate from each other, and giving attachment by each of these fibres to a fleshy fibre, as at the superior insertion of the iliacus, of the anterior tibialis, &c.; sometimes finally in the form of an arch, and then at the same time that they give the muscles points of 262 insertion, they allow vessels to pass under them, as in the diaphragm, the solæus, &c. II.
— from General Anatomy, Applied to Physiology and Medicine, Vol. 2 (of 3) by Xavier Bichat

[817] Herodotus makes Xerxes claim kindred with the Argives of Greece, as being equally of the posterity of Perses, the same as Perseus, the Sun: under which character the Persians described the patriarch, from whom they were descended.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) by Jacob Bryant

A little extra work at this time will always be greatly appreciated by every one concerned.
— from Total Per Cent Lambing Rules by Thomas Boylan

It is a question whether such minds would have been greatly aided by education, or whether they might not have been greatly injured by it—nature seeming to have formed all minds with particular proclivities.
— from The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest by W. H. (William Henry) Sparks

Prior to stating the facts on the return, it will be proper to give a brief exposition of the very obscure law upon which the controversy has arisen.
— from The Rural Magazine, and Literary Evening Fire-Side, Vol. 1 No. 03 (1820) by Various

He constantly used the words Lend and Pay, instead of Give; and by every other method he could invent, always lessened with his tongue the favours he conferred, while he was heaping them with both his hands.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Indeed, the Americans, as far as appearance goes, are behind every other country in the Exhibition.
— from Three Years in Europe: Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met by William Wells Brown