Horrified at this awful revelation Œdipus, in a fit of despair, deprived himself of sight, and the unfortunate Jocaste, unable to survive her disgrace, hanged herself.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

Of the quality of the satisfaction in our judgements upon the Sublime 119 B.—Of the Dynamically Sublime in Nature 123 § 28.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

But in respect of our judgement upon the sublime in nature, we cannot promise ourselves so easily the accordance of others.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

' Johnson used to say that he made it a constant rule to talk as well as he could both as to sentiment and expression, by which means, what had been originally effort became familiar and easy.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

Of the quality of the satisfaction in our judgements upon the Sublime The feeling of our incapacity to attain to an Idea, which is a law for us , is RESPECT .
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

At last they settled into simple grumbling, And pulling out reluctant purses, and Turning each piece of silver o'er, and tumbling Some down, and weighing others in their hand, And by mistake sequins with paras jumbling, Until the sum was accurately scann'd,
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

This 3599 is called Arabia of the Catabanes 3600 , the Esbonitæ 3601 , and the Scenitæ 3602 ; it is remarkable for its sterility, except in the parts where it joins up to Syria, and it has nothing remarkable in it except Mount Casius 3603 .
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

So when Jotham upbraids the Shechemites with the obligation they had to Gideon, who had been their judge and ruler, he tells them, He fought for you, and adventured his life far, and delivered you out of the hands of Midian, Judg. ix.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

A letter had come to Celia which made her cry silently as she read it; and when Sir James, unused to see her in tears, asked anxiously what was the matter, she burst out in a wail such as he had never heard from her before.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

I remember the end of one of his letters ran thus: “I shall ever hold the virtuous qualities of my Molly in remembrance, dum memor ipse mei , dum spiritus regit artus ,” which, considering that the English of his correspondent was sometimes at fault in grammar, and often in spelling, might be taken as a proof of how much he “idealised his Molly;” and, as Miss Jenkyns used to say, “People talk a great deal about idealising now-a-days, whatever that may mean.”
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Mr. Jowett used to say that he never saw Miss Nightingale or received a letter from her without feeling strengthened for his duties.
— from The Life of Florence Nightingale, vol. 2 of 2 by Cook, Edward Tyas, Sir

He leads us in imagination through the sacred course of that all-embracing worship which upheld the soul of Dante through every vicissitude of toil and trial, from the first hour in which the smile of the Blessed Beatrice made the boy’s heart tremble for joy, until the solemn moment of resignation when “it was made known to him that his beloved Lady must die.”
— from Dante Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelite movement by Esther (of Hampstead) Wood

Well and correctly played, a beautiful air falls on the ear as melodious harmony without disturbing any mental effort then occupying the mind; but to a true musician every false note, every break of tune or measure, jars upon the senses, and attracts other mental powers beyond the mere sense of hearing, and totally breaks up for a time the disturbed train of thought.
— from Englefield Grange; or, Mary Armstrong's Troubles by Paull, H. B., Mrs.

I had nothing to tell me of the effect which I was producing on her, except the changing temperature, or the partial movement, of her hand, as it lay in mine, just under the silk coverlet of the bed.
— from The Two Destinies by Wilkie Collins

Why should a man who does not know the difference between a spoon-hook and an ostrich feather and who cannot tell a sunfish from a rainbow trout sit in judgment upon the solemn assertions of experienced anglers?
— from Days in the Open by Lathan A. (Lathan Augustus) Crandall

If negative, and there remains a suspicion of lues, a therapeutic test with mercury protoiodid is carried out by keeping the patient just under the salivation point for eight weeks; during which time no potassium iodid is given, lest its reaction upon the larynx cause an edema necessitating tracheotomy.
— from Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson

And, the king, who is come, they say, to judge upon the spot who shall inherit the long vacant county of Boulogne, will give you protection against your enemies, and aid to restore your sovereign's son to his rightful inheritance."
— from The Desultory Man Collection of Ancient and Modern British Novels and Romances. Vol. CXLVII. by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) defense is the responsibility of the UK Faroe Islands defense is the responsibility of Denmark French Polynesia defense is the responsibility of France French Southern and Antarctic Lands defense is the responsibility of France Georgia a CIS peacekeeping force of Russian troops is deployed in the Abkhazia region of Georgia together with a UN military observer group; a Russian peacekeeping battalion is deployed in South Ossetia Gibraltar defense is the responsibility of the UK; the last British regular infantry forces left Gibraltar in 1992, replaced by the Royal Gibraltar Regiment Glorioso Islands defense is the responsibility of France Greenland defense is the responsibility of Denmark Guam defense is the responsibility of the US Guernsey defense is the responsibility of the UK Heard Island and McDonald Islands defense is the responsibility of Australia; Australia conducts fisheries patrols Holy See (Vatican City) defense is the responsibility of Italy; ceremonial and limited security duties performed by Pontifical Swiss Guard Hong Kong defense is the responsibility of China Howland Island defense is the responsibility of the US; visited annually by the US Coast Guard Iceland under a 1951 bilateral agreement, Iceland's defense was provided by a US-manned Icelandic Defense Force (IDF) headquartered in Keflavik; in October 2006, all US military forces in Iceland were withdrawn; nonetheless, the US and Iceland signed a Joint Understanding to strengthen their bilateral defense relationship, including regular security consultations, military communications in the event of national emergencies, annual bilateral exercises on Icelandic territory, and future bilateral and NATO support to four Iceland Air Defense System (IADS) radar sites
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency