As her foreign properties and her mercantile marine are now to be taken from her, and as her foreign banking and other miscellaneous sources of revenue from abroad have been largely destroyed, it appears that, on the pre-war basis of exports and imports, Germany, so far from having a surplus wherewith to make a foreign payment, would be not nearly self-supporting.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

To tap this mighty reservoir of experience, knowledge, beauty, love, and deed we must appeal not to the few, not to some souls, but to all.
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

But why? Is it because the law is more anxious not to put a man in prison for stealing unless he is actually wicked, than it is not to hang him for killing another?
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Only what your grandpa told us about him,—how he took good care of his own mother till she died, and wouldn't go abroad as tutor to some nice person, because he wouldn't leave her; and how he 181 provides now for an old woman who nursed his mother; and never tells any one, but is just as generous and patient and good as he can be."
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

Justice, again, is a more abstract notion than the other virtues, and therefore, from Plato’s point of view, the foundation of them, to which they are referred and which in idea precedes them.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

But long ere this the Rutulians deemed the battle unequal, and their hearts are stirred in changeful motion; and now the more, as they discern nigher that in ill-matched strength . . . .
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

Yet they do not punish them, because they lay this down as a maxim, that a man cannot make himself believe anything he pleases; nor do they drive any to dissemble their thoughts by threatenings, so that men are not tempted to lie or disguise their opinions; which being a sort of fraud, is abhorred by the Utopians: they take care indeed to prevent their disputing in defence of these opinions, especially before the common people: but they suffer, and even encourage them to dispute concerning them in private with their priest, and other grave men, being confident that they will be cured of those mad opinions by having reason laid before them.
— from Utopia by More, Thomas, Saint

You can no more make a new thought out of 'ideas' that have once served than you can make a new bubble out of old triangles Each bubble, each thought, is a fresh organic unity, sui generis .
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

It would be easy to remove every scruple from every mind upon this subject, by amending the resolution of the Senator from Missouri, so as to direct the Secretary to perform his duty in such a manner as not to obliterate any part of the condemnatory resolution.
— from Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States. v. 1 (of 2) by George Ticknor Curtis

She found herself staring into them longer than good manners allowed; not that Lydia cared much about good manners, but she did not wish to give the man the idea she had fallen in love with him at first sight; only it just happened that she had never seen eyes before that flared like torches, grew dark and light and small and large like a cat's, only they weren't the color of a cat's, being gray—a pure light gray in contrast with his dark hair and skin.
— from Manslaughter by Alice Duer Miller

The adjectival use , modifying a noun that may be a subject, object, complement, etc.: for example, "But there was no time to be lost ;" "And now Amyas had time to ask Ayacanora the meaning of this;" "I have such a desire to be well with my public" (see also Sec. 351, 5).
— from An English Grammar by James Witt Sewell

Name any three gates mentioned and note their location on Bible map of the city of Jerusalem.
— from A Bird's-Eye View of the Bible Second Edition by Frank Nelson Palmer

He may at first do it in a neat, or even a genteel manner, and neutralize the sickening odor by the most grateful perfumes; but this trouble will soon be dispensed with, and in all probability he will, at no distant day, become a sloven, with his garments saturated with smoke, and himself steeped in tobacco juice.
— from A Disquisition on the Evils of Using Tobacco and the Necessity of Immediate and Entire Reformation by Orin Fowler

I replied that "I was hungry and weak from want of food, and that I wanted to see meat, and not the man who had starved me."
— from In the Heart of Africa by Baker, Samuel White, Sir

At six o'clock in the morning I laid down the papers with Peter's triumph in them and rolled into bed, dead with sleep; and before seven Sam had sent me a note that forced me to open my eyes and stagger up and on.
— from Over Paradise Ridge A Romance by Maria Thompson Daviess

In both fortresses the highest and best position is occupied by a temple, built of huge blocks of sandstone, of two kinds, which must have been brought from a great distance through the rapids; for, southward, no sandstone is found nearer than Gebel Abir, in the neighbourhood of Amara and the island of Sai (between 80 and 90 English miles), and northward, there is none nearer than the great division of the district at Wadi Haifa (30 miles distant.)
— from The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Vol. XLIX April-October 1850 by Various

A collar round the neck, and a cart-whip flourished over the back; these, in a just and steady human hand, were what the gods would have appointed them; and now when, by long misconduct and neglect, they had sworn themselves into the Devil's regiments of the line, and got the seal of Chaos impressed on their visage, it was very doubtful whether even these would be of avail for the unfortunate commander of twelve hundred men!
— from Latter-Day Pamphlets by Thomas Carlyle