If the labor of staff officers was diminished by this method of camping and marching by lines, it must be evident that if such a system were applied to an army of one hundred thousand or one hundred and fifty thousand men, there would be no end to the columns, and the result would be the frequent occurrence of routs like that of Rossbach.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

Not the need to move my limbs; for a rat with half my brains moves as well as I. Not merely the need to do, but the need to know what I do, lest in my blind efforts to live I should be slaying myself.
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

Here loads of lances, in my blood embrued, Again shoot upward, by my blood renew’d.’
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

In this biographical sketch of my literary life I may be excused, if I mention here, that I had translated the eight Hymns of Synesius from the Greek into English Anacreontics before my fifteenth year.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Sir,” said Franz, “I regret much that such a question has been raised in the presence of Mademoiselle Valentine; I have never inquired the amount of her fortune, which, however limited it may be, exceeds mine.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

A state lives in any case by exchanging persons, and all spiritual life is maintained by exchanging expressions.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

It follows—even though we are not yet prepared to give a final solution to the problem, we can nevertheless foresee from this point—that, if such is really the function of the division of labor, it may be expected to have a moral character, because the needs of order, of harmony, of social solidarity generally, are what we understand by moral needs.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

See hallucination Images, double, in vision, II. 225-30 Images, mental, not lost in mental blindness, etc., I. 50 , 66 ; II. 73 Images, are usually vague, II. 45; visual, 51 ff.; auditory, 160; motor, 61; tactile, 165; between sleep and waking, 124-6 Imagination, Chapter XVIII: it differs in individuals, II. 51 ff.; sometimes leaves an after-image, 67; the cerebral process of, 68 ff.; not locally distinct from that of sensation, 73; is figured , 82 Imitation, II. 408 Immortality, I. 348-9 Impulses, morbid, II. 542 ff.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

[1306] This natural infirmity is most eminent in old women, and such as are poor, solitary, live in most base esteem and beggary, or such as are witches; insomuch that Wierus, Baptista Porta, Ulricus Molitor, Edwicus, do refer all that witches are said to do, to imagination alone, and this humour of melancholy.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

No one ever died in this way, who would not have died some time or other; but what does it signify how life itself may be ended, since he who comes to the end is not obliged to die a second time?
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

[that is, the Lord is my Banner].' —EXODUS xvii.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers by Alexander Maclaren

—When the tile is dried and shrunk a little it may be easily taken from the frame, but it should be allowed to get quite stiff before decoration is applied.
— from The Library of Work and Play: Home Decoration by Charles Franklin Warner

It is still the law that when a company of infantry marches through London it must be escorted by a policeman.
— from My Year of the War Including an Account of Experiences with the Troops in France and the Record of a Visit to the Grand Fleet Which is Here Given for the First Time in its Complete Form by Frederick Palmer

"How came these d——d lines into my book, eh, sir, answer me that, sir," and having dissected the Anatomy of Melancholy , Charles picked up Sir Roger L'Estrange's translation of Æsop to continue the assault.
— from The Passionate Elopement by Compton MacKenzie

[84] This process of self-diagnosis may be due in part to his medical studies, but much more, we think, to his morbid imagination, which led him, on more than one occasion, to play the madman in so realistic a manner that strangers were frightened out of their wits and even his friends became alarmed, lest it might be earnest and not jest which they were witnessing.
— from Types of Weltschmerz in German Poetry by Wilhelm Alfred Braun

I might have been somewhat dazzled by the general effect, had I not reflected that, in my own country, gas is within reach of the poorest purse, while the electric light itself may be enjoyed by the very beggar in the street.
— from In the Wrong Paradise, and Other Stories by Andrew Lang

And through this weird and seemingly unnatural darkness there occasionally came gleams of spectral bluish light which told him that the greatest artillery in the world was rapidly getting ready for action, and that before long it might be expected to break loose in all its majestic power.
— from Don Hale with the Flying Squadron by W. Crispin (William Crispin) Sheppard

Leaves dark-green, curled, resembling those of Parsley, and, like it, might be employed for garnishing.
— from The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. by Fearing Burr

[55] {289} Descriptions of Switzerland are impossible, and instead of a journal, such as I formerly kept, I this time sketch furiously, and sit in front of a mountain, and try to draw its likeness, and do not give it up till I have quite spoiled the sketch; but I take care to have at least one new landscape in my book every day.
— from Letters of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy from 1833 to 1847 by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy