He sees one man live in joy, abundance, and pleasure, and even at his door another die miserably of want and cold.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Bombay, just acquired as part of Queen Katherine’s dowry, was made over to the Company by Letters Patent dated March 27th, 1669.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

I went below just as another projectile scraped the Nautilus's hull, and I heard the captain exclaim: "Shoot, you demented vessel!
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

When their devout minds were sufficiently prepared by a course of prayer, of fasting, and of vigils, to receive the extraordinary impulse, they were transported out of their senses, and delivered in ecstasy what was inspired, being mere organs of the Holy Spirit, just as a pipe or flute is of him who blows into it.
— 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

you, naturally so gentle, to slay a Jew and a prelate in two minutes!"
— from Candide by Voltaire

Regarded more deeply, the case is again different, we thoroughly mistrust all men who thus contemplate their own navels: because introspection seems to us a degenerate form of the psychologist's genius, as a note of interrogation affixed to the psychologist's instinct: just as a painter's eye is degenerate which is actuated by the will to see for the sake of seeing.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Heroes Every Child Should Know H. W. Mabie Houghton Mifflin Co. Heroes of Chivalry Louise Maitland Heroes of Pioneering Sanderson Lippincott Heroes of the Storm O'Connor Houghton Hero Myths and Legends of the British Race M. O. Erbutt Crowell Co. John James Audubon Audubon Putnam John Smith, Gentleman and Adventurer.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

In his trial before a partial judge against a popular antagonist, he was convicted of vanity and falsehood; and a fine of two hundred thousand pieces of gold either exhausted his poverty or proved his rapaciousness.
— 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

That to the protection of that power the republic, embarrassed as it was, fled for succour, just as a private individual in distress.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

Anger and hatred are beyond the duty of justice; and are passions only useful to those who do not keep themselves strictly to their duty by simple reason: “Utatur motu animi, qui uti ratione non potest.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

She wore a huge coalscuttle bonnet, which in these days of smaller head coverings looked strange and out of proportion, a short imitation sealskin jacket, and a perfectly plain skirt, which exposed her slender build in the most uncompromising (or perhaps I ought to say compromising) fashion.
— from The Harmsworth Magazine, v. 1, 1898-1899, No. 2 by Various

The Wanderobbo seemed much more delighted with the few beads given him than the value of the gift appeared to justify, and at parting shook hands warmly with the Englishmen, promising, when Wasama had told him of their settlement, to bring them some honey shortly.
— from Settlers and Scouts: A Tale of the African Highlands by Herbert Strang

I have found the brutal gratification of taking life so strong with some, that a natural antipathy is allowed to take the place of justice, and a proper defence is not allowed in such cases where the suffering party has not the power to enforce it.
— from Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained by M. (Moses) Quinby

But cousin Julia and aunt Polly were enemies against whom it was necessary to assume whatever weapons might come to his hand.
— from John Caldigate by Anthony Trollope

"You are right," said Julien, after another pause.
— from Cosmopolis — Volume 4 by Paul Bourget

When that is done humanity, justice and a pure government of all the people, by all the people and for all the people, will form the armor of our civilization.
— from One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed by C. A. Bogardus

"The Javanese are a people who live in the past," a young friend of ours says rightly.
— from Letters of a Javanese Princess by Raden Adjeng Kartini

Indeed, the chances seemed to be a hundred to one against the lieutenant, who could handle with terrible effect a cutlass or a boarding-pike, but was almost a stranger to a weapon, to excel in the use of which, a man must be as loose in the joints as a posture maker, and as light in the heels as a dancing master.
— from Jack in the Forecastle; or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale by John Sherburne Sleeper

Nevertheless it was not long before John Alden and Priscilla Mullins were working together at a little distance apart from the rest, leaving Constance to dig and rake in company with Humility Cooper, Elizabeth Tilley, and the little girls.
— from A Pilgrim Maid: A Story of Plymouth Colony in 1620 by Marion Ames Taggart