Acciden′tals, notes introduced in the course of a piece of music in a different key from that in which the passage where they occur is principally written.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

It must be admitted that the Leibnitz-Wolfian philosophy has assigned an entirely erroneous point of view to all investigations into the nature and origin of our cognitions, inasmuch as it regards the distinction between the sensuous and the intellectual as merely logical, whereas it is plainly transcendental, and concerns not merely the clearness or obscurity, but the content and origin of both.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

The operations of the campaign were conducted by their skill and experience; but they found it impossible to drive the Visigoths from their strong posts in the mountains; and the devastation of the plains obliged the Romans themselves to repass the Danube on the approach of winter.
— 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

Cars had been stopped, it is true, and the men argued with.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

Sins are the cause that sorrowing we depart from this world: no one stands in dread, if he does no evil: good it is to be blameless.
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

For in the resistance experienced by the soul in the other emotions there is less shame, because the resistance is from itself, and thus, when it is conquered by itself, itself is the conqueror, although the conquest is inordinate and vicious, because accomplished by those parts of the soul which ought to be subject to reason, yet, being accomplished by its own parts and energies, the conquest is, as I say, its own.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

The characters of nature are legible, it is true; but they are not plain enough to enable those who run, to read them.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

(2) Elizabethan literature is generally inspiring; it throbs with youth and hope and vitality.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

"Greater is He that is with us, than he that is in the world."
— from Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII (of 8) by John Henry Newman

He saw the sketch of his own features; he read words inscribed below it—words of such artless tenderness, and such unhoping sorrow—words written by one who had been accustomed to regard her genius as her sole confidant, under Heaven, to pour out to it, as the solitary poet-heart is impelled to do, thoughts, feelings, and confession of mystic sighs, which it would never breathe to a living ear, and, save at such moments, scarcely acknowledge to itself.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XXVII, August 1852, Vol. V by Various

"Why, I know well enough, if I could only think: why, it is because the iron is the heavier, and as it comes all around the water so it can't get away sideways, it is forced up."
— from McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey

But, indeed, now that I think of it—how could I possibly hold my tongue as he proposes I should do, and not protest, while he would go on suppressing convents and religious orders under my very eyes, as well as introducing innovations that I could not pass over in silence without becoming his accomplice in the face of all Christendom?”
— from More Italian Yesterdays by Fraser, Hugh, Mrs.

It is the duty of every man who values his time to decline to read 237 pages of such stuff as this :— Algarsif at his broother shooke his pike: Camballo stowtlie did att him the like; naie, quicklie, with a shock of pikes, chargd home, theare right to make his rendeuous first known: gainst whome
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 (of 7) — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

Almost all these teachers, whether orthodox or heterodox, had a singular facility for composing hymns, often of high literary merit, and it is in these emotional utterances, rather than in dogmatic treatises, that they addressed themselves to the peoples of northern India.
— from Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 by Eliot, Charles, Sir

In process of time improvements in the formation of boilers and steam engines increased the effective pressure on the piston, and, consequently, the power of the engine.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

Ah! Cincinnatus , in retirement, pleased himself with the plough; your recreation was wont to be the axe or the banjo; now I perceive it is the—harp!
— from Punch, Or the London Charivari Volume 107, November 17, 1894 by Various

The watch's answer is that it must incessantly work, that it is everybody's slave, that it is thrown away as useless as soon as it stops.
— from The History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century by Leo Wiener