[Pg 685] Mr. Galton, in his work on English Men of Science, [613] has given a very interesting collation of cases showing individual variations in the type of memory, where it is strong.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Above all, we have a constant sense in reading him, that his thoughts, however little their positive value may be, are connected with springs beneath them of deep and passionate emotion; and when he explains the grades or steps by which the soul passes from the love of a physical object to the love of unseen beauty, and unfolds the analogies between this process and other movements upward of human thought, there is a glow and vehemence in his words which remind one of the manner in which his own brief existence flamed itself away.
— from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater

It gives a very insufficient idea of the importance of the strivings which take place to improve and elevate human nature and life to suppose that their chief value consists in the amount of actual improvement realized by their means, and that the consequence of their cessation would merely be that we should remain as we are.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

The ground about Vicksburg is admirable for defence.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

[Footnote 2: For an analysis of the occasional peculiarities of these primary veins in the human subject, see an able and original monograph in the Philosophical Transactions, Part 1., 1850, entitled, "On the Development of the Great Anterior Veins in Man and Mammalia."
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

But by forcing Q - K Kt 4; White gains a very important move with P - B 4, which not only consolidates his position, but also drives the Queen away, putting it out of the game for the moment.
— from Chess Fundamentals by José Raúl Capablanca

As for my own part, such is my Christian charity towards my neighbours, that I could wish from my heart everyone had as good a voice; it would make us play the better at the tennis and the balloon.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Do you think we would have gained a victory if it had depended on General Grant alone?
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

Consider Sparta, Germany, and Rome; Rome the throne of glory and virtue, if ever they were enthroned on earth.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Since I have vanquished your generals and viceroys in the previous battle, and now yourself and your forces in like manner, I am, by the gift of the gods, in possession of your land.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

’Tis he that sets the Buffoons , and empty Sycophants , to turn all that’s Great and Virtuous into Raillery and Derision: ’Tis therefore to encounter these , that like those resolute Builders , xciii:2 whilst we employ one hand in the Work, we , with the other are oblig’d to hold our Weapon , till some bold, and Gallant Genius deliver us, and raise the Siege.
— from Sylva; Or, A Discourse of Forest Trees. Vol. 1 (of 2) by John Evelyn

"But to that mutilated stone which guardeth the bridge 'twas meet that Florence should give a victim in her last time of peace."
— from The Story of Florence by Edmund G. Gardner

Now, although we perceive an objective reality, sense perception obviously gives a very imperfect knowledge of objects.
— from The Philosophy of Immanuel Kant by A. D. (Alexander Dunlop) Lindsay

On June 20, the jury gave a verdict in Mr. Newdegate's favor for the £500 penalty and costs.
— from Reminiscences of Charles Bradlaugh by G. W. (George William) Foote

[*The Singapore census returns for 1881 are by no means "dry reading," and they give a very imposing idea of the importance of the island.
— from The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

The writer, in this narrative, has simply attempted to give a vivid idea of the adventures of Cortez and his companions in the Conquest of Mexico.
— from Hernando Cortez Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

Occasionally the moonlight fell in expansive splendor through a rift in the white vapor; amidst the silver glintings a vague, illusory panorama of promontory and island, bay and inlet, far ripplings of gleaming deeps, was presented like some magic reminiscence, some ethereal replica of the past, the simulacrum of the seas of these ancient coves, long since ebbed away and vanished.
— from The Raid of The Guerilla, and Other Stories by Mary Noailles Murfree

I had one with a border of grapes and vines, I remember; I am always an honest woman, and as the border had the effect of cutting off one's chin, I can't pretend it was becoming—but, my dear, it cost thirty dollars, as I'm a living woman!
— from A Pasteboard Crown: A Story of the New York Stage by Clara Morris

The description given by Colonel W. Hill James gives a vivid idea of the dangers that the British sailors faced: ‘The bar at the mouth of the Adour was, and is to this day, one of the most dangerous and difficult in the world.
— from The Motor Routes of France To the Châteaux of Touraine, Biarritz, the Pyrenees, the Riviera, & the Rhone Valley by Gordon Home