And they did in fact at that time create a very great and mighty movement; uniting with the ever-flowing stream in stirring up and violently shaking the courses of the soul, they completely stopped the revolution of the same by their opposing current, and hindered it from predominating and advancing; and they so disturbed the nature of the other or diverse, that the three double intervals (i.e. between 1, 2, 4, 8), and the three triple intervals (i.e. between 1, 3, 9, 27), together with the mean terms and connecting links which are expressed by the ratios of 3:2, and 4:3, and of 9:8—these, although they cannot be wholly undone except by him who united them, were twisted by them in all sorts of ways, and the circles were broken and disordered in every possible manner, so that when they moved they were tumbling to pieces, and moved irrationally, at one time in a reverse direction, and then again obliquely, and then upside down, as you might imagine a person who is upside down and has his head leaning upon the ground and his feet up against something in the air; and when he is in such a position, both he and the spectator fancy that the right of either is his left, and the left right.
— from Timaeus by Plato

The peaberry coffee rolls about so nicely in the pan that they get a much more uniform roast.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

We give a much more unlimited approval to their idea that the life of the wise man must be social.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Now in all common and ordinary cases, there is nothing which I have found to answer so well as this—— ——Certainly, if there is any dependence upon Logic, and that I am not 208 blinded by self-love, there must be something of true genius about me, merely upon this symptom of it, that I do not know what envy is: for never do I hit upon any invention or device which tendeth to the furtherance of good writing, but I instantly make it public; willing that all mankind should write as well as myself.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Now in all common and ordinary cases, there is nothing which I have found to answer so well as this— —Certainly, if there is any dependence upon Logic, and that I am not blinded by self-love, there must be something of true genius about me, merely upon this symptom of it, that I do not know what envy is: for never do I hit upon any invention or device which tendeth to the furtherance of good writing, but I instantly make it public; willing that all mankind should write as well as myself.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Guicciardini, a man most unapt to believe lies, relates how that Ferdinand his father's ghost who before had died for grief, came and told him, that he could not resist the French King, he thought every man cried France, France; the reason of it (saith Cominseus) was because he was a vile tyrant, a murderer, an oppressor of his subjects, he bought up all commodities, and sold them at his own price, sold abbeys to Jews and Falkoners; both Ferdinand his father, and he himself never made conscience of any committed sin; and to conclude, saith he, it was impossible to do worse than they did.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

In the old college days, not so very long ago, Latin, Greek, and mathematics made up the curriculum.
— from A Librarian's Open Shelf: Essays on Various Subjects by Arthur E. (Arthur Elmore) Bostwick

But the American groaning and misery may undoubtedly 108 be even greater than theirs, because they were oppressed and labored as beasts of burden, but they were never compelled to work on a par with the modern mechanical forces.
— from The Impending Crisis Conditions Resulting from the Concentration of Wealth in the United States by Basil A. Bouroff

As to you, Margaret, you are a genius, and must make up your mind never to marry."
— from The Home at Greylock by E. (Elizabeth) Prentiss

The compromising documents disappeared within the warm hollow of her muff, and with a last glance around, Mrs. Marteen unlocked the door and descended to the street, where her walnut-brown limousine awaited her.
— from Out of the Ashes by Ethel Watts Mumford Grant

However this be, many catholic families fell away from their religion after the battle of Culloden: at this time the [Pg 11] whole Digby family was decidedly protestant, excepting three respectable virgins, aunts of my grandfather; and my mother, under the care of an uncle, became, at the age of twenty-two, the meet and willing bride of a young Anglican divine.
— from Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith by Henry Digby Beste

He let his eye-glass fall, made a grimace, and merely muttered-- "Unsavoury story; unsavoury story!"
— from The Undying Past by Hermann Sudermann

“A tract that, when I was a girl,” answered Miss McDonald, “used to be bound up with 'The Dairyman's Daughter' and 'The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain.'
— from That Fortune by Charles Dudley Warner

Such small gifts and memories make up much of the unique pleasure of Japanese travel.
— from Gleanings in Buddha-Fields: Studies of Hand and Soul in the Far East by Lafcadio Hearn