But the proprietaries were enraged at Governor Denny for having pass'd the act, and turn'd him out with threats of suing him for breach of instructions which he had given bond to observe.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

"Freedom of Will"—that is the expression for the complex state of delight of the person exercising volition, who commands and at the same time identifies himself with the executor of the order—who, as such, enjoys also the triumph over obstacles, but thinks within himself that it was really his own will that overcame them.
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

There can be no doubt that kindly and generous feelings are more often to be found in the hearts of women than of men.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

His own words tell out his feelings at this time:—"My convictions deepened daily, and I longed to openly confess the Lord Jesus; but I had not the courage to give up all for Him.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

“He obviously wants to offend me,” pursued Sergey Ivanovitch; “but he cannot offend me, and I should have wished with all my heart to assist him, but I know it’s impossible to do that.”
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

There are points in it with which I disagree, and it has been my duty to indicate them as they arose, but, none the less, Mr. Waldron has accomplished his object well, that object being to give a simple and interesting account of what he conceives to have been the history of our planet.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

Do we suppose that the mediaeval saint, St. Bernard, St. Francis, St. Catharine of Sienna, or the Catholic priest who lately devoted himself to death by a lingering disease that he might solace and help others, was thinking of the 'sweets' of heaven?
— from Gorgias by Plato

The prosecutor will not, dare not (his own words) touch on that story.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Tale of a Tub is so much superiour to his other writings, that one can hardly believe he was the authour of it: 'there is in it such a vigour of mind, such a swarm of thoughts, so much of nature, and art, and life.'
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

I saw the bishop some years later, and he told me in confidence that he had only written the oration because he felt certain, from his knowledge of the human heart, that his punishment would be a great reward.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Breakfast went happily on with talk of politics, county affairs, and now and then from Colonel Dick a sly allusion to the approaching marriage.
— from Lewis Rand by Mary Johnston

The one friend to whom Ba con had once wished to owe everything had become the great man, now only to be approached with "sweet meats" and elaborate courtesy.
— from Bacon by R. W. (Richard William) Church

What I should conclude is, that when workmen want to lessen their hours of work, they ought not to ask the same wages for the day's work as before.
— from Political economy by William Stanley Jevons

Louisa had too much penetration not to make this distinction: she saw the truth of his affection in his grief, and that awe which deterred him from expressing what he felt:--she sympathized in all his pains, and for every sigh his oppressed heart sent forth, her own wept tears of blood; yet not receding from the resolution she had formed, nothing could be more truly moving than the scene between them.
— from The Fortunate Foundlings Being the Genuine History of Colonel M——Rs, and His Sister, Madam Du P——Y, the Issue of the Hon. Ch——Es M——Rs, Son of the Late Duke of R—— L——D. Containing Many Wonderful Accidents That Befel Them in Their Travels, and Interspersed with the Characters and Adventures of Several Persons of Condition, In the Most Polite Courts of Europe. the Whole Calculated for the Entertainment and Improvement of the Youth of Both Sexes. by Eliza Fowler Haywood

As he proceeded along the passage, the door being open, he recognised the murderer; and immediately drawing his sword, rushed towards him, on which the other leapt nimbly down from the stairs into the street, and was never again seen in Scotland."
— from Life and Correspondence of David Hume, Volume 1 (of 2) by John Hill Burton

I am so far from being surprised when women occasionally run away from their husbands, that I rather marvel that there is not a hegira of women; that our streets and lanes are not choked up with fugitives.
— from A New Atmosphere by Gail Hamilton

12 , of which a is the hearth on which the ore is spread; b , the fireplace, the products of combustion from which pass over the ore on the hearth, and thence into the flues c , which repeatedly circle round the furnace so as to provide abundant opportunity for the arsenious oxide derived from the combustion (oxidation) of the arsenic in the ore to condense; this highly poisonous arsenious oxide is collected in a solid form from the flues at convenient intervals by means of the doors d .
— from Pigments, Paint and Painting: A practical book for practical men by George Terry

I was one of the witnesses of the first will, and a clerk of Henderson's, who is still in his office, was the other.”
— from The Golden House by Charles Dudley Warner

231 This threefold realisation admits empirically of a separation that makes it possible to have one without the others.
— from The Reform of Education by Giovanni Gentile