Roman bridges and aqueducts, for instance, gain a profound emotional power when we see in their monotonous arches a symbol of the mightiest enterprise in history, and in their decay an evidence of its failure.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

The ‘scuole’ are houses of charity, established for the education of young girls without fortune, to whom the republic afterwards gives a portion either in marriage or for the cloister.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It will give acute perception enabling us to see God even as is promised to the pure in heart.
— from The Pursuit of God by A. W. (Aiden Wilson) Tozer

“I have a son of twelve to whom I cannot give a proper education; take charge of him instead of Sophie.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

To the prayer of the ancient Cæsars, the people or the senate had sometimes granted a personal exemption from the obligation and penalty of particular statutes; and each indulgence was an act of jurisdiction exercised by the republic over the first of her citizens.
— 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

And thus much shall suffice, concerning the Kingdome of God, and Policy Ecclesiasticall.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

After the celebration of the holy mysteries, Leo suddenly placed a precious crown on his head, and the dome resounded with the acclamations of the people, "Long life and victory to Charles, the most pious Augustus, crowned by God the great and pacific emperor of the Romans!"
— 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

The company takes up the choruses, and men and women cry out like all possessed; some leap to their feet and stamp upon the floor, lifting their glasses and pledging each other.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

I also laid stress on the mechanical character of these sciences, and endeavored to give a physiological explanation of their morphological phenomena.
— from The Wonders of Life: A Popular Study of Biological Philosophy by Ernst Haeckel

We believe it will be permanently occupied by the English, who will dispossess the aborigines, and form a great and permanent English State.
— from The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. I., No. 2, April, 1889 by Various

Will you not grant a Parly e’er I yield?
— from The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I by Aphra Behn

I believe the latter to be the true interpretation; for it is better thus to guard against possible errors than to make the plate very thick and, at the same time, small.
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 (of 7) — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

The unfortunate June insurrection at Prague had given a plausible excuse for preventing the meeting of the Bohemian Parliament; the murder of Lamberg had, no doubt, seemed to Ferdinand of Austria to supply at least a palliation for his dissolution of the [455] Hungarian Diet; the murder of Latour and the persecution of the Bohemian deputies supplied Windischgrätz with sufficient argument for depriving Vienna of its liberties; and even the violent dispersal of the deputies of Berlin could be defended by the King of Prussia by reference to the previous riots of August.
— from The Revolutionary Movement of 1848-9 in Italy, Austria-Hungary, and Germany With Some Examination of the Previous Thirty-three Years by C. Edmund (Charles Edmund) Maurice

At length came the Hungarian Guards, with Esterhazy at their head, dazzling in gems and pearl embroidery.
— from Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

Like 'Tom Brown's School Days,'the 'White Horse' gives the reader a feeling of gratitude and personal esteem towards the author.
— from Michael Faraday Third Edition, with Portrait by J. H. (John Hall) Gladstone

Because, whatever draws away the heart from God, and prevents enjoying close fellowship with him, naturally tends to apostasy from him.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

It is a model specimen of the true, grand, and powerful ecclesiastical style, although it has a commencement of the melodic 'swing' which music had acquired by the time it was written, 1705."
— from The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann