Should it be demanded why men form general rules, and allow them to influence their judgment, even contrary to present observation and experience, I should reply, that in my opinion it proceeds from those very principles, on which all judgments concerning causes and effects depend.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

—¡Mis tierras!—exclamó con júbilo el caballero, tendiendo la vista por los tristes campos que alumbraban las primeras luces de la mañana.—Es la primera vez que veo 15 el patrimonio que heredé de mi madre.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Of what did the duumvirate deliberate during their itinerary? Music, literature, Ireland, Dublin, Paris, friendship, woman, prostitution, diet, the influence of gaslight or the light of arc and glowlamps on the growth of adjoining paraheliotropic trees, exposed corporation emergency dustbuckets, the Roman catholic church, ecclesiastical celibacy, the Irish nation, jesuit education, careers, the study of medicine, the past day, the maleficent influence of the presabbath, Stephen’s collapse.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

until the girl suddenly sprang up, on which the chorus joyfully exclaimed: ‘ Come to life, come to life has our Kostrubonko!
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

He received the messengers of victory at the time when he was preparing to publish the Pandects of the Roman laws; and the devout or jealous emperor celebrated the divine goodness, and confessed, in silence, the merit of his successful general.
— 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 Jewish Encyclopedia cites the Council of Three Lands, the Council of Four Lands, and the Council of Five Lands, showing an international relationship in earlier years.
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

He was just enough civilized to show off his outlandishness in the strangest possible manners.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Then come you to the Papey, a proper house, wherein sometime was kept a fraternity or brotherhood of St. Charity and St. John Evangelist, called the Papey, for poor impotent priests (for in some language priests are called papes), founded in the year 1430 by William Oliver, William Barnabie, and John Stafford, chaplains or chantry priests in London, for a master, two wardens, etc., chaplains, chantry priests, conducts, and other brethren and sisters, that should be admitted into the church of St. Augustine Papey in the wall.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

Hoc volo, sic jubeo, etc.’ Compare the words of the slave in Plautus Mil.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

They watched him cross the entire length of the hall, commenting on his appearance, his clothes, his past life, a coarse jest even came to his ears now and again, a laugh of derision or an exclamation of satisfied envy.
— from The Tangled Skein by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

[267] Johann Eck compares the way in which Melanchthon twice outwitted Cardinal Campeggio to the false arts of Sinon the Greek, known to us from Virgil’s account of the introduction of the wooden horse into Troy.
— from Luther, vol. 5 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

“Now as you know,” he continued, “I was all set for college, with jobs enough cinched to get me through all right, especially as I was to share your quarters, but I have just found out that the girls have given up their plans for college, so that I can go!
— from The Flight of the Silver Ship: Around the World Aboard a Giant Dirgible by Hugh McAlister

Sir John even condescended to explain that the laws of political economy bind employers to buy labor in the cheapest market, and our poor friend, just as ignorant of economics as Sir John, of course did not know that this was untrue.
— from An Unsocial Socialist by Bernard Shaw

Mr. and Mrs. J. Edwards Caldwell then resolved to fill up the "Refuge" with their own friends among the officers, saying to each other, "We will do all the good we can, and will agree to sustain each other in any course without consulting."
— from Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War by Fannie A. Beers

Skilful judges even can take no exceptions but to the display of too great diligence, with which, during several years, he had studied and polished this single painting.
— from The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 5 (of 6) From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Luigi Lanzi

“What was the trouble?” asked Joe, edging closer to the overturned automobile as the crowd of spectators grew larger.
— from The Forest of Mystery by James H. Foster

The first competition is for the best biographical and critical study upon Tirso de Molina; the second for a romancero upon the lines of the “Romancero del Cid,” the subject being Don Jaime el Conquistador, the volume to contain not fewer than twenty nor more than fifty romances.
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, June 1885 by Various

Learn, therefore, to be deeply attentive to the presence of God in your own hearts, who is always speaking, always instructing, always illuminating the heart that is attentive to Him.’ Jonathan Edwards called the poor parish minister of Ettrick ‘a truly great divine.’
— from Bunyan Characters (3rd Series) by Alexander Whyte