When Cannabich saw and heard this, he called out, "Danzi, stay where you are; the Elector prefers his own people playing the accompaniments."
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

So home to dinner, and with Mr. Hater by water to St. James’s: there Mr. Hater, to give Mr. Wren thanks for his kindness about his place that he hath lately granted him, of Petty Purveyor of petty emptions, upon the removal of Mr. Turner to be Storekeeper at Deptford, on the death of Harper.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

In God's name cheerly on, courageous friends, To reap the harvest of perpetual peace By this one bloody trial of sharp war. OXFORD.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Kleon too attacked him, using the anger which the citizens felt against him to advance his own personal popularity, as we see from the following lines of Hermippus: "King of Satyrs, wherefore fear you Spear to wield, and only dare to Talk in swelling phrase, while yet you Cower, Teles like, And when goaded on, past bearing, By our Kleon's tongue so daring, Only gnash your teeth despairing, Still afraid to strike."
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

For it is, firstly, self-contradictory to couple the like and the unlike together ( gryphes jungere equis ) and to let Him who is Himself the entire cause of the changes in the universe make good any shortcomings in His own predetermining providence (which to require this must be defective) during the course of the world; for example, to say that the physician has restored the sick with the help of God—that is to say that He has been present as a support.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

p. 261, 262, an original Chronicle of Ormuz, in Texeira, or Stevens's History of Persia, p. 376—416, and the Itineraries inserted in the ist volume of Ramusio, of Ludovico Barthema, (1503,) fol.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Now the first conclusion which these facts suggest is that each of us is animated by a direct feeling of regard for his own pure principle of individual existence , whatever that may be, taken merely as such.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

It was afterwards called Astarte, and then Philadelphia, in honour of Ptolemy Philadelphus.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

3. Understand the use of hand or power printing machines.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

"I believe I see light; the hand of Pauline Potter is behind it all."
— from Miss Caprice by St. George Rathborne

Often have the hands of parricides [Pg 187] and rebels been armed, by a proud and vindictive priesthood, against sovereigns the most worthy of reigning.
— from Letters to Eugenia; Or, A Preservative Against Religious Prejudices by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'

132 See also his "Literary History of Persia," p. 422.
— from Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Ullah and Abdul Baha by Samuel Graham Wilson

Every thing to him is suggestive, as his own pregnant pages are to the congenial reader.
— from The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 by Various

The people called him “Old Pensioner Parker,” for he fought at Bunker Hill, and received a pension from government.
— from Our Young Folks, Vol 1, No. 1 An Illustrated Magazine by Various

He bethought him of certain meals his mother had cooked at home, in which those dishes of which he was particularly fond had occupied prominent positions.
— from The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric by Sherwin Cody

You are come here, to the house of poor people, and you are quite unaware of what you ask from them.
— from Pamela Giraud: A Play in Five Acts by Honoré de Balzac

So he wrote to Edmund Burke, telling him that he could no longer be content to live in the home of poor people, who had kept him for nearly a year, and had lent him money for his current expenses.
— from The Book of Courage by John T. (John Thomson) Faris

The spring came back to her step, the brightness to her eyes, and more than the old tenderness to her voice, as she went from one shunned sick-room to another like a living sunbeam, bringing the freshness of a May morning with her, and seeming always to come solely for her own pure pleasure.
— from Only an Incident by Grace Denio Litchfield