"I mean that whether you were going to make Julian drink that poisonous stuff or not, you were inflicting a horrible torture upon him," said Janetta, as hotly as Wyvis himself could have spoken.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

The Jews of Germany were not German patriots during the war, and although this will not appear a crime in the eyes of the nations who were opposed to Germany, it may throw some light on the Jew's assertion of patriotic loyalty to the land where he lives.
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

Plato is most true to the character of his master when he describes him as ‘not of this world.’
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

The journey was a swift and pleasant one, and I spent it in making the more intimate acquaintance of my two companions and in playing with Dr. Mortimer’s spaniel.
— from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

By injustice I mean the dominion of anger and fear, pleasure and pain, envy and desire, in the soul, whether doing harm or not: by justice I mean the rule of the opinion of the best, whether in states or individuals, extending to the whole of life; although actions done in error are often thought to be involuntary injustice.
— from Laws by Plato

Leuce Carin, a writer of doubtful authority, states that in the early history of Christianity the faithful danced, or rather stamped, in measured time during religions ceremonials, gesticulating and distorting themselves.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

Such are: a few verbs expressing ‘operations of nature,’ five verbs of ‘mental distress,’ and any verb used to denote merely the occurrence of action, without reference to any doer: as, ( a. ) lūcet , it is light , lūcēscit , it is getting light ; pluit , it rains , fulget , it lightens , tonat , it thunders . ( b. ) miseret , it moves to pity , paenitet , it repents , piget , it grieves , pudet , it puts to shame , taedet , it bores .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

What is the meaning of the moral idiosyncrasy ?—I mean this both in the psychological and physiological sense, as it was, for instance, in Pascal.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

At a meeting of the Social Democratic Federation Mr. Adolphe Smith moved a resolution appealing to the organized workers of Great Britain-- Not to permit themselves in the supposed interests of their fellow-workers in other countries, to be used by sinister financial and militarist influences merely to weaken the Entente nations in the present critical situation, and urging them to keep careful watch against such manoeuvres on the part of pro-German international financiers, who were able to exercise considerable reactionary influence among the wealthy and official classes in this country.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

In private life there are many little things, not always apparent, arising out of the pleasures and pains and desires of individuals, which run counter to the intention of the legislator, and make the characters of the citizens various and dissimilar:—this is an evil in states; for by reason of their smallness and frequent occurrence, there would be an unseemliness and want of propriety in making them penal by law; and if made penal, they are the destruction of the written law because mankind get the habit of frequently transgressing the law in small matters.
— from Laws by Plato

It was in strict consistency therefore, that these writers supported the Necessitarian scheme, and made the relation of Cause and Effect the Law of the Universe, subjecting to its mechanism the moral World no less than the material or physical.
— from Aids to Reflection; and, The Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

shewedst it me to insult me!—You shewed it me, to let me see, that he could be civiller to a beggar born, than to me, or to my good Lord Davers!—You shewed it me, as if you'd have me to be as credulous a fool as yourself, to believe your marriage true, when I know the whole trick of it, and have reason to believe you do too; and you shewed it me, to upbraid me with his stooping to such painted dirt, to the disgrace of a family, ancient and untainted beyond most in the kingdom.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

Often have I made trial of it.
— from Menotah: A Tale of the Riel Rebellion by John Trevena

That is why I made the search which has ended in this discovery.
— from The Mayor's Wife by Anna Katharine Green

It may, then, be reckoned as tolerably certain that the beginnings of the epic date from the fourth or fifth century before the Christian era, and that it was quite a respectable work by the time that era began; after which it continued to grow for five centuries more.[7] Its religious importance can scarcely be overestimated.
— from The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow by Edward Washburn Hopkins

I like the conjunction of the matter, though I mislike the impudent lies of the author to maintain it.”
— from The Great Lord Burghley: A study in Elizabethan statecraft by Martin A. S. (Martin Andrew Sharp) Hume

But it is probable that inertia plays no part in maintaining the direction of streaming (see p.
— from Ameboid movement by Asa A. (Asa Arthur) Schaeffer

“Yes, I mean that whatever quantity we want to use is ours for the asking.
— from Daybreak; A Romance of an Old World by James Cowan