It must be taken as a fact, discovered by reflecting upon our knowledge, that we have the power of sometimes perceiving such relations between universals, and therefore of sometimes knowing general a priori propositions such as those of arithmetic and logic.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

Though the old woman, therefore, concluded every one of her answers with desiring him to be gone, and Partridge proceeded so far as to pull him by the sleeve, he still continued to invent new questions, till the old woman, with an affrighted countenance, declared she heard her master's signal; and at the same instant more than one voice was heard without the door, crying, “D—n your blood, show us your money this instant.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

VIII High above all a cloth of State was spred, 65 And a rich throne, as bright as sunny day, On which there sate most brave embellished With royall robes and gorgeous array, A mayden Queene, that shone as Titans ray, In glistring gold, and peerelesse pretious stone: 70 Yet her bright blazing beautie did assay To dim the brightnesse of her glorious throne, As envying her selfe, that too exceeding shone.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

To expel grief, and procure pleasure, sweet smells, good diet, touch, taste, embracing, singing, dancing, sports, plays, and above the rest, exquisite beauties, quibus oculi jucunde moventur et animi , are most powerful means, obvia forma , to meet or see a fair maid pass by, or to be in company with her.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Genius may have been corrupted, not by a world-wide peace, but by love of gain and pleasure, passions so strong that “I fear, for such men as we are it is better to serve than to be free.
— from On the Sublime by active 1st century Longinus

If we return he will take away our guns and ponies, put some of us in jail for stealing cattle and plundering houses.
— from The American Indian in the United States, Period 1850-1914 ... The Present Condition of the American Indian; His Political History and Other Topics; A Plea for Justice by Warren King Moorehead

The smallest and most perfectly individualized specimens present a richly modeled cumulous cloud rising above the dark woods, about 11 A.M., swelling with a visible motion straight up into the calm, sunny sky to a height of 12,000 to 14,000 feet above the sea, its white, pearly bosses relieved by gray and pale purple shadows in the hollows, and showing outlines as keenly defined as those of the glacier-polished domes.
— from The Mountains of California by John Muir

And the plays which were written without great and predominant parts, such as Troilus and Cressida, All's Well That Ends
— from The Dark Lady of the Sonnets by Bernard Shaw

"—"Do you not think, then, that had the conspiracy of Georges and Pichegru proved successful, the Prince would have passed the Rhine, and have come post to Paris?"
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various

Sokrates there lays it down explicitly, that pleasure per se is always good, and pain per se always evil: that there is no other good ( per se ) except pleasure and diminution of pain — no other evil ( per se ) except pain and diminution of pleasure: that there is no other object in life except to live through it as much as possible with pleasures and without pains; 215 but that many pleasures become evil, because they cannot be had without depriving us of greater pleasures or imposing upon us greater pains while many pains become good, because they prevent greater pains or ensure greater pleasures: that the safety of life thus lies in a correct comparison of the more or less in pleasures and pains, and in a selection founded thereupon.
— from Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 1 by George Grote

In a dead silence Gyp and Pat prepared seven slips of paper.
— from Highacres by Jane Abbott

Why, he dedicated himself to God, and vowed that the spot where he had enjoyed such a revelation and harkened to such exceeding great and precious promises, should be God's house.
— from Life and Times of David. Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, vol. VI by Charles Henry Mackintosh

"In the meantime he requires them to confide in him; to go up through this wilderness leaning upon him; to tell him all their complaints and griefs, and to comfort themselves: and he will impress the comfort by means of his great and precious promises, scattered like so many pearls through his sacred Bible, tabled there on purpose for us to ground our prayers upon, and delight ourselves in.
— from The Power of Faith Exemplified In The Life And Writings Of The Late Mrs. Isabella Graham. by Isabella Graham