What I am concerned with—for I see it preparing itself slowly and hesitatingly—is the United Europe.
— from The Genealogy of Morals The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“I expect you to help me,” I said, “in picking up the fragments of evidence which Sergeant Cuff has left behind him.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Criticism: Essays, by Donaldson, in Five Great Oxford Leaders; by Church, in Occasional Papers, vol. 2; by Gates, in Three Studies in Literature; by Jacobs, in Literary Studies; by Hutton, in Modern Guides of English Thought; by Lilly, in Essays and Speeches; by Shairp, in Studies in Poetry and Philosophy.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

She likes to have me tell her what I see in pictures.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

A plain variety is shown in Pl.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

This Phrase, perhaps, among us, would appear a soft or humorous way of speaking, but with that exact Nation it bears the highest Reproach; for a Man to be Mistaken in the Calculation of his Expence, in his Ability to answer future Demands, or to be impertinently sanguine in putting his Credit to too great Adventure, are all Instances of as much Infamy as with gayer Nations to be failing in Courage or common Honesty.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

“‘Tis now the witching—“’ ‘“Hour of night!”’ ‘“When churchyards yawn,”’ ‘“And graves give up their dead.”’ At the end of this quotation in dialogue, each gentleman struck an attitude, and immediately subsiding into prose walked into the office.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Only after Kant (because he taught that virtue has its source in Pure Reason) did the virtuous and the reasonable become one and the same thing, despite the usage of these words which all languages have adopted—a usage which is not fortuitous, but the work of universal, and therefore uniform, human judgment.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

It was on the morning after our arrival that, walking out with my friend, Mr Dennison, I could not help breaking forth into the warmest expressions of applause at the beauty of the scene, which is really inchanting; and I signified, in particular, how much I was pleased with the disposition of some detached groves, that afforded at once shelter and ornament to his habitation.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects, too, are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention, in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

the new appears not in its stead; the time is still in pangs of travail with the new.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

In these instances, splitting is preferable to sawing, because a rived billet is free from cross grain.
— from American Forest Trees by Henry H. Gibson

There is something infinitely pathetic in the epitaph this much-loved and successful woman wrote for herself when she felt that the end was near: Ici git Arthenice, exempte des rigueurs Don't la rigueur du sort l'a touours poursuivie.
— from The Women of the French Salons by Amelia Gere Mason

Sabina was so badly injured, in such incessant pain, so low in herself, that she took little interest in her surroundings.
— from Wastralls: A Novel by C. A. (Catharine Amy) Dawson Scott

A rectangular prism, the hypothenuse plane of which is silvered, is placed in the end of the straight portion of the tube, its superior face being seen just anterior to the angle formed by the beak.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. by Various

"Esther isn't common, if she is poor," Laura instantly asserted with decision.
— from A Flock of Girls and Boys by Nora Perry

Aurelius Victor says he taught Cato Greek in Sardinia, (In præturâ Sardiniam subegit, ubi ab Ennio Græcis literis institutus;) but this is inconsistent with what is related by Cicero, that Cato did not acquire Greek till old age.
— from History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Vol. I by John Colin Dunlop

The fact is, society itself puts you into a sphere and condition, which, taking from you much of your individuality, makes you less exclusive in your affections, and more single in their exercise.
— from Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia by William Gilmore Simms

At length, a compact respecting the temporary and permanent seat of government was entered into between the friends of Philadelphia, and the Potomac, stipulating that congress should adjourn to and hold its sessions in Philadelphia, for ten years, during which time, buildings for the accommodation of the government should be erected at some place on the Potomac, to which the government should remove at the expiration of the term.
— from The Life of George Washington, Vol. 4 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by John Marshall

Every time the italians attempted to shake off the yoke of foreign tyrants, the tyrants oppressing the very italian princes, who rule italian blood, the pope, and his accomplices rendered grace to God, when they heard that their jealous enemies, I mean the protesants, gave to italian princes, ropes to hang the italian Catos, who attempted to place on the italian soil, italian princes, free of foreign servitude.
— from Why a National Literature Cannot Flourish in the United States of North America by Joseph Rocchietti