But history is related to poetry as portrait-painting is related to historical painting; the one gives us the true in the individual, the other the true in the universal; the one has the [pg 316] truth of the phenomenon, and can therefore verify it from the phenomenal, the other has the truth of the Idea, which can be found in no particular phenomenon, but yet speaks to us from them all.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

And as a high moral tone can hardly be said to conduce very much to either one’s health or one’s happiness, in order to get up to town I have always pretended to have a younger brother of the name of Ernest, who lives in the Albany, and gets into the most dreadful scrapes.
— from The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People by Oscar Wilde

In spite of my riches I shall not, however, give up trade till I have amassed a capital of a hundred thousand drachmas, when, having become a man of much consideration, I shall request the hand of the grand-vizir's daughter, taking care to inform the worthy father that I have heard favourable reports of her beauty and wit, and that I will pay down on our wedding day 3 thousand gold pieces.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

[She goes up towards the inner room, where BERTA is placing a tray with decanters and glasses on the table.
— from Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen

“I guess I do it to get used to the idea.”
— from Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

This gave great uneasiness to the inquisitors, who use every method they can to conceal their proceedings from the knowledge of the world.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

He told them that the Athenians passed the night in the town, at some distance from their arms, and that if the Syracusans would name a day and come with all their people at daybreak to attack the armament, they, their friends, would close the gates upon the troops in the city, and set fire to the vessels, while the Syracusans would easily take the camp by an attack upon the stockade.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

we may give up to them, if they appear to speak agreeably to truth; or, if not, we may then uphold our own argument.
— from Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato

We demand only to go into those Territories upon terms of equality with you, as equals in this great Confederacy, to enjoy the common property of the whole Union, and receive the protection of the common government, until the Territory is capable of coming into the Union as a sovereign State, when it may fix its own institutions to suit itself.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

This pyramid was made after the manner of steps which some called "rows" and others "bases": and when they had first made it thus, they raised the remaining stones with machines made of short pieces of timber, raising them first from the ground to the first stage of the steps, and when the stone got up to this it was placed upon another machine standing on the first stage, and so from this it was drawn to the second upon another machine; for as many as were the courses of the steps, so many machines there were also, or perhaps they transferred one and the same machine, made so as easily to be carried, to each stage successively, in order that they might take up the stones; for let it be told in both ways, according as it is reported.
— from An Account of Egypt by Herodotus

Part 5 Pursuant to some altogether private calculations she did not go up to the Imperial College until after mid-day, and she found the laboratory deserted, even as she desired.
— from Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

She could not get used to the idea.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume III. Awakening To Let by John Galsworthy

‘Every cup given us to taste in this life is mixed.
— from Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle by Clement King Shorter

Besides, I could hardly get used to the idea all at once that I had suddenly become a rich man, and feared some stroke of fate that would, after all, deprive me of my well-gotten wealth.
— from Upsidonia by Archibald Marshall

“Can we get un through th’ ice?” asked David eagerly.
— from Grit A-Plenty: A Tale of the Labrador Wild by Dillon Wallace

Sullivan's cantata "On Shore and Sea" given under Theodore Thomas, in Chicago.
— from Annals of Music in America: A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events by Henry Charles Lahee

They must have got used to that in the Coryston family!
— from The Coryston Family A Novel by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.