Beyond this point no rendering of the Life of Reason has ever been carried, Aristotle improved the detail, and gave breadth and precision to many a part.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

"] Almost all the nations which have ever exercised a powerful influence upon the destinies of the world by conceiving, following up, and executing vast designs—from the Romans to the English—have been governed by aristocratic institutions.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

When I answer now, I drop a grave thought, break from solitude; Yet still my heart goes to thee—ponder how— Not as to a single good, but all my good!
— from Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Very elaborate rules are given both as to the ingredients, such as the hair of a black antelope, with which the clay is to be mixed, and as to how it is to be shaped, and finally burnt.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

I thought you'd come off it when you saw a chance of getting back a bit of what you chucked at me last night.
— from Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw

The most important collections are Frazer's Golden Bough and his Totemism and Exogamy .
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

"Do see him, Mrs. Casaubon," said Miss Noble, pathetically; "else I must go back and say No, and that will hurt him.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Shall such affronts as these alone inflame The Grecian brothers, and the Grecian name?
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

Peter was such a good boy, and so modest and unsuspicious that he was good, that everybody loved him.
— from Our Boys Entertaining Stories by Popular Authors by Various

In Great Britain alone over 600,000,000 people are annually drawn by locomotives.
— from How to Become an Engineer by Frank W. Doughty

And so, further, we need not doubt that humanity will constantly draw nearer to the ideal condition of everlasting peace among the nations (guaranteed by a league of states which shall as a mediator settle disputes between individual states), however impracticable the idea may at present appear.
— from History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg

A separation from England seems the wildest project conceivable; and yet, Heaven knows, no great benefit appears hitherto to have accrued to the poor "earthen pot" from its fellowship with the "iron" one.
— from Records of Later Life by Fanny Kemble

The tube plate nearest the furnace in tubular boilers should also be so inclined as to facilitate the escape of the steam; and the short bent plate or flange of the tube plate, connecting the tube plate with the top of the furnace, should be made with a gradual bend, as, if the bend be sudden, the iron will be apt to crack or burn away from the concretion of salt.
— from A Catechism of the Steam Engine by Bourne, John, C.E.

With this pioneer group belongs also Professor Niles, who was actively connected with the college from 1882 until his retirement as Professor Emeritus in 1908.
— from The Story of Wellesley by Florence Converse

Run back to them, there's a good boy, and in a few minutes she would be there.
— from A Soldier's Trial: An Episode of the Canteen Crusade by Charles King

Thus the secret science and mysterious emblems of initiation were connected with the Heavens, the Spheres, and the Constellations: and this connection must be studied by whomsoever would understand the ancient mind, and be enabled to interpret the allegories, and explore the meaning of the symbols, in which the old sages endeavored to delineate the ideas that struggled within them for utterance, and could be but insufficiently and inadequately expressed by language, whose words are images of those things alone that can be grasped by and are within the empire of the senses.
— from Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike

"Is this here a time," she cried, with enthusiasm, her eyes flashing as she spoke, "to be hanging back, till the all important moment's gone by, and then choke to death for want o'water?
— from Ella Barnwell A Historical Romance of Border Life by Emerson Bennett

I once observed a young foal thus bite its large mother, who did not choose to drop the grass she had in her mouth, and rubbed her nose against the foal's neck instead of biting it; which evinces that she knew the design of her progeny, and was not governed by a necessary instinct to bite where she was bitten.
— from Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life, Vol. I by Erasmus Darwin