It may perhaps appear like a sort of repetition of what we have before said, to insist here upon the nature of ugliness ; as I imagine it to be in all respects the opposite to those qualities which we have laid down for the constituents of beauty.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

To say then that the universe essentially is thought, is to say that I myself, potentially at least, am all.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

Ye are in my power at last, are in my power.
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Freshwater withdrawal (domestic/industrial/agricultural): total: 79.4 cu km/yr (3%/1%/96%) per capita: 560 cu m/yr (2000) Natural hazards: droughts, cyclones; much of the country routinely inundated during the summer monsoon season Environment - current issues: many people are landless and forced to live on and cultivate flood-prone land; waterborne diseases prevalent in surface water; water pollution, especially of fishing areas, results from the use of commercial pesticides;
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

I hereby order and command you, that in whatever part of the said my kingdoms and states the said Captain, or the officers and sailors who go with him, may arrive with the said two ships or any one of them, or with any other vessel, you shall receive, [ 171 ] protect, and succour the said Captain and his people in my ports and lands, and provide them with whatever is necessary to complete the said voyage without delay; and you are to assist them to obtain whatever they may require, and he may ask for, as he is my servant and Captain, going expressly to carry out my orders; and you are not to interpose any impediments or difficulties, but rather you are to extend to him favour and help, if you desire or seek my approval.
— from The Voyages of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros, 1595 to 1606. Volume 1 by Pedro Fernandes de Queirós

Still, when he is gone, the small, small bird remains at his front wires feebly twittering to me—twittering and twittering, until, leaning back in my place and looking at him in drowsy fascination, I find that he seems to jog my memory as we rush along.
— from The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens

Ammianus Marcellinus observes, that they were built “in modum provinciarum,” as large as provinces; but the great Valesius judges the word provinciarum to be a corruption of piscinarum.
— from Ruins of Ancient Cities (Vol. 2 of 2) With General and Particular Accounts of Their Rise, Fall, and Present Condition by Charles Bucke

But, fortunately for the hopefulness of our future work, we may anticipate by saying that history shows us that the innate and organic is that which is most permanent and lasting, and that change and catastrophe in a nation’s career have in most [4] cases been due to circumstances which we may term surrounding or accidental.
— from Darwinism and Race Progress by John Berry Haycraft

The purchase which Uel was requested to assist in making proved a light affair.
— from The Prince of India; Or, Why Constantinople Fell — Volume 01 by Lew Wallace

And if we capitulate after our first disastrous encounter, it does not mean that we shall be for ever vanquished, though it means perhaps a long and dreary waste of shame-stained days.
— from Where No Fear Was: A Book About Fear by Arthur Christopher Benson

[283] This delicately nurtured woman, who was, moreover, in bad health, lived among her soldiers, says the admiring Madame de Motteville, almost as imagination may picture Alexander living among his.
— from Henrietta Maria by Henrietta Haynes

I reached into my pocket and looked at my sealed orders.
— from The Lady and the Pirate Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive by Emerson Hough

It goes without saying that 30 he was a prime seaman—his wonderful passages in Marco Polo and Lightning are proof enough of this.
— from The Colonial Clippers by Basil Lubbock