An absolutism which thus encourages and sanctions the natural will is Stoical and pantheistic; it does not, like Indian and Platonic absolutism, seek to suspend the will in view of some supernatural destiny.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

“And yet it is all quite natural; for when one loves one desires, and when one desires in vain one suffers, and continual suffering is great unhappiness.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

sīn Numidae propius accessissent, ibī̆ virtūtem ostendere , S. I. 58, 3, they showed forth their valour every time the Numidians drew near ( 1535 ).
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

And the whole stream of vision, being similarly affected in virtue of similarity, diffuses the motions of what it touches or what touches it over the whole body, until they reach the soul, causing that perception which we call sight.
— from Timaeus by Plato

Movement from low to high, horizontal movement to and fro, in virtue of the reciprocal percussion of the atoms, movement downwards, in virtue of their weight, will be all equal, for in whatever sense the atom moves, it must have a movement as rapid as the thought, till the moment when it is repelled, in virtue of some external cause, or of its own proper weight, by the shock of some object which resists it.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

—ísimo superlative in virtuosity, of supreme virtuosity.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Let it but be acknowledged to what an extent our modern world diverges from the whole style of the world of Heraclitus, Plato, Empedocles, and whatever else all the royal and magnificent anchorites of the spirit were called, and with what justice an honest man of science MAY feel himself of a better family and origin, in view of such representatives of philosophy, who, owing to the fashion of the present day, are just as much aloft as they are down below—in Germany, for instance, the two lions of Berlin, the anarchist Eugen Duhring and the amalgamist Eduard von Hartmann.
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

We cannot here forgo quoting one more passage from Montaigne, which bears distinctly upon other important views of Stendhal.
— from On Love by Stendhal

Lord Mountfalcon had none of the arts of a libertine: his gold, his title, and his person had hitherto preserved him from having long to sigh in vain, or sigh at all, possibly: the Hon.
— from The Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Complete by George Meredith

Champlain, in 1608, founded Quebec, where Cartier had previously discovered the Indian village of Stadacona, meaning the "narrowing of the river."
— from America, Volume 4 (of 6) by Joel Cook

I shall, therefore, content myself with brief discussion of the work of some of these younger writers with the particular end in view of suggesting to others the pleasure and profit that may result from more intimate acquaintance with them.
— from Idling in Italy: Studies of literature and of life by Joseph Collins

People that do not read, or work for a livelihood, have many hours they know not how to employ; especially women, who commonly fall into vapours, or something worse."
— from Lady Mary Wortley Montague, Her Life and Letters (1689-1762) by Lewis Melville

"For from the time that intelligence first dawned upon the scene of life, whenever a new relation had to be established in the region of mind, it could only be so established in virtue of some new line of discharge being excavated through the substance of the brain.
— from Jelly-Fish, Star-Fish, and Sea-Urchins: Being a Research on Primitive Nervous Systems by George John Romanes

Hödel's attempt failed, but in view of Socialist agitation, the would-be assassin was beheaded (the practice still in Prussia) a few weeks later.
— from William of Germany by Stanley Shaw

For instance, milk is very often served as a beverage in a meal in which the quantity of meat or other protein foods is not reduced.
— from Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 2: Milk, Butter and Cheese; Eggs; Vegetables by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences

He scrambled out from beneath the table, snicked on the light, whirled open the door, and was in time to hear the irritable voice of Sir Horace say, testily: "Don't make an ass of yourself by your over-zealousness.
— from Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces by Thomas W. Hanshew