Thus, in order to avoid the appearance of tautology, I have refrained from explaining desire by appetite; but I have take care to define it in such a manner, as to comprehend, under one head, all those endeavours of human nature, which we distinguish by the terms appetite, will, desire, or impulse.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

In White’s official report of the affair he states that he had sent ahead a part of his force, together with the Cherokee under Morgan, to surround the town, and adds that “Colonel Morgan and the Cherokees under his command gave undeniable evidence that they merit the employ of their government.”
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

He reduced the main principles of morality to four, viz: mercy, aversion to cruelty, unbounded sympathy for all animated beings and the strictest adherence to the moral law.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

Ovation after ovation, applause warm and prolonged, had greeted the officers and friends of Colonel Shaw, the sculptor, St. Gaudens, the memorial Committee, the Governor and his staff, and the Negro soldiers of the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts as they came upon the platform or entered the hall.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

I know that there are men who, having nothing to say and nothing to write, are nevertheless so in love with oratory and with literature that they keep desperately repeating as much as they can understand of what others have said or written aforetime.
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

id arbitror fuisse gravitatis; quoniam promisit, si saltare in foro turpe ducet, honestius mentietur, si ex hereditate nihil ceperit, quam si ceperit, nisi forte eam pecuniam in rei publicae magnum aliquod tempus contulerit, ut vel saltare, cum patriae consulturus sit, turpe non sit.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Moreover let the heralds tell it about the city that the growing youths and grey-bearded men are to camp upon its heaven-built walls.
— from The Iliad by Homer

"You are decided, then, not to comply with my request—a request made according to common usage and common sense?"
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

She took Mary and the children upstairs.
— from The Black Diamond by Francis Brett Young

Its purport was as follows: He reported the capture of Raoul, explaining the mode and the circumstances under which that celebrated privateersman had fallen into his hands.
— from The Wing-and-Wing; Or, Le Feu-Follet by James Fenimore Cooper

The personal advantage which gave it the victory is transmitted by inheritance to its descendants, and by a further development may become so strongly marked as to cause us to consider the later generations as a new species.
— from The History of Creation, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or the Development of the Earth and its Inhabitants by the Action of Natural Causes by Ernst Haeckel

These are now unavailing questions; I was blinded by a fatality, and remained, fluttering like a moth around the candle, until I have been scorched to some purpose.
— from Redgauntlet: A Tale Of The Eighteenth Century by Walter Scott

"It is only now that I feel myself able to clear up the whole matter, and it is for this reason alone that I ask you to put off your inquiry till to-night."
— from The Perpetual Curate by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

It was agreed that the others were to keep on and that after leaving the stream men were to be posted at intervals to guide the messengers as they came up.
— from The Plunderer by Roy Norton

I will mention the word ‘medal,’ and they can understand it if they like.” “Oh!
— from Louise de la Valliere by Alexandre Dumas

And after all, the word in question has a plain meaning, as the Council used it, easily stated and intelligible to all; for “consubstantial with the Father,” means nothing more than “really one with the Father,” being adopted to meet the evasion of the Arians.
— from An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent by John Henry Newman