“Every state of consciousness has its physical correlate,” says Helmholtz, [68] and this proposition contains the all in all of our problem.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Indeed, in such passages it is with the Freedom of the wrong-chooser that he is primarily concerned: since it is the wrong-chooser that he especially wishes to prevent from shifting his responsibility on to causes beyond his control.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Depart, ye heads of Districts, to labour in this great work; while we here, in Permanent Committee, sit alert.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Here is punished carnal sin.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

It was the opinion that no force or famine could make the Lacedaemonians give up their arms, but that they would fight on as they could, and die with them in their hands: indeed people could scarcely believe that those who had surrendered were of the same stuff as the fallen; and an Athenian ally, who some time after insultingly asked one of the prisoners from the island if those that had fallen were men of honour, received for answer that the atraktos—that is, the arrow—would be worth a great deal if it could tell men of honour from the rest; in allusion to the fact that the killed were those whom the stones and the arrows happened to hit.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

It can become true psychological warfare, scientific in spirit and developed as a teachable skill, only by having its premises clearly stated, its mission defined, its instruments put in systematic readiness, and its operations subject to at least partial check, only by the use of techniques borrowed from science.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

They finished their journey at an hotel in Piccadilly Circus, so as to be close to the early breakfast next morning in Leicester Square.
— from The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

And I'll wager a crown that unless he's come down, He is probably carolling still.
— from In My Nursery by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

All state affairs were most carefully concealed from her; and if ever she chanced to interest herself in private concerns, she as constantly failed in her designs; since a recommendation from her was a sufficient title of exclusion with the minister.
— from The History of the Revolutions of Portugal by abbé de Vertot

Then tones that shape before my inner sight The moonlit gardens of the spirit, Sleep, Far on a star man’s eyes have never seen: White Sleep, who leads me ’mid her poppies, weighed With dewy slumber; from whose chalices She culls white dreams to lay on human hearts In pearly clusters sparkling now with tears
— from The Poems of Madison Cawein, Volume 5 (of 5) Poems of meditation and of forest and field by Madison Julius Cawein

Individual life, ill carried on from hour to hour, is prematurely cut short; the fostering of offspring often fails, and is incomplete when it
— from Creation or Evolution? A Philosophical Inquiry by George Ticknor Curtis

They have to endeavored to crush my intellectual independence by carrying the principle of conformity to a ridiculous extent, and by enforcing a submission to which no man of honor without the loss of all his intellectual powers could submit.—I told the chancellor on the spur and in the excitement of the moment what I thought of the falsehoods contained in his epistle and of his previous conduct which, if he is a gentleman, he is bound to justify.
— from Letters of a Lunatic A Brief Exposition of My University Life, During the Years 1853-54 by G. J. (George J.) Adler

In witness wherof, the said William Bradford hath in publick courte surrendered the said letters patents actually into y e hands & power of y e said courte, binding him selfe, his heires, executors, administrators, and assignes to deliver up whatsoever spetialties are in his hands that doe or may concerne the same.
— from Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts by William Bradford

Kensington had its parish church, St. Mary Abbot’s, and a chapel in Addison Road.
— from Kensington, Notting Hill, and Paddington With Remembrances of the Locality 38 Years Ago by An Old Inhabitant

" When she had exhausted herself in passionate consolation, she left him for a few moments to get him food, and he ate of it like a famished man.
— from The Unclassed by George Gissing

"Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is past," cried she, "let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing."
— from Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The duties of hospitality had been simple at a time when Corps Headquarters was still housed in palatial châteaux, situated in country hitherto untouched by the war, and within easy reach of all supplies.
— from The Australian Victories in France in 1918 by Monash, John, Sir