It cannot be doubted that it is something essentially religious in its nature, origin and functions.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Taxando et ab his deterrendo humanam lasciviam et insaniam, sed et remedia docendo: non igitur candidus lector nobis succenseat, &c. Commonitio erit juvenibus haec, hisce ut abstineant magis, et omissa lascivia quae homines reddit insanos, virtutis incumbant studiis (Aeneas Sylv.)
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The more successful we are in snapping economic relations between Germany and Russia, the more we shall depress the level of our own economic standards and increase the gravity of our own domestic problems.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

I beg Leave to state my Case fairly; and that done, I shall expect Redress from your judicious Pen.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Time and science have justified the conjectures and predictions of the Roman sage: the telescope has opened new worlds to the eyes of astronomers; and, in the narrow space of history and fable, one and the same comet is already found to have revisited the earth in seven equal revolutions of five hundred and seventy-five years.
— 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

The influence from innate sensuous experiences rises into consciousness as the life of every normal child and youth
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Its southern extremity rises above the rest of the island and ends very abruptly in a naked, white, saddle-shaped mountain.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

In Schaffhausen Erasmus Ritter, called upon to oppose in discussion the reformed pastor Hofmeister, owned himself defeated, and joined the reform party.
— from Church History, Volume 2 (of 3) by J. H. (Johann Heinrich) Kurtz

For, as he gazed down, there in the gloom, not two hundred yards away as an arrow would fly, but at a distance which it had taken them nearly half an hour to climb by the gradual ascent, was the figure of an Indian standing out just clear of the mist, and peering cautiously about, as if searching every rock and crevice around.
— from Real Gold: A Story of Adventure by George Manville Fenn

The ship had become a separate world, and the routines they had left behind them on earth, and the various routines they would take up again some six weeks from now on Almazin III seemed equally remote and improbable.
— from The Star Lord by Boyd Ellanby

When I look at it, I shall ever remember the folly of an Englishman and the courtesy of a Spaniard;” and as I made the speech I could not but reflect whether it might, under any circumstances, be possible that Lord John Russell should be induced to give a button off his coat to a Spaniard.
— from John Bull on the Guadalquivir From "Tales from All Countries" by Anthony Trollope

The actions of Julian can only be preserved by the care of the historian; but the portion of his voluminous writings, which is still extant, remains as a monument of the application, as well as of the genius, of the emperor.
— from History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 by Edward Gibbon

By doing me this act of kindness I shall ever remain grateful.
— from Sun, Sand and Somals Leaves from the note-book of a District Commissioner in British Somaliland by Henry A. Rayne

A gray-haired, iron-mustached soldier, indelibly stamped English regular, carrying a bucket of swill across the square to the dump, stopped to watch them.
— from Trenching at Gallipoli The personal narrative of a Newfoundlander with the ill-fated Dardanelles expedition by John Gallishaw

It will probably be thought tedious to all such as dip into it, expecting a light novel, or transitory romance; and look upon story in it (interesting as that is generally allowed to be) as its sole end, rather than as a vehicle to the instruction.
— from Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 by Samuel Richardson

“I don’t know as I should ever rightly understand her, and I won’t judge her, for one; she’ll find plenty to do that.
— from Mrs. Farrell by William Dean Howells