Man has a soul as certainly as he has a body; 25 nay, much more certainly; properly it is the course of his unseen spiritual life, which informs and rules his external visible life, rather than receives rule from it, in which spiritual life the true secret of his history lies.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

A mountainous country presents itself, in the combinations of war, under four different aspects.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

He then gave half-a-dozen pulls to a little rope, which caused a diminutive bell to give so many ting-tangs; and presently a parcel of monk-hawks ran to him as if the devil had drove ‘em, and fell a-singing like mad. Pray, master, cried Panurge, if I also rang this bell could I make those other birds yonder, with red-herring-coloured feathers, sing?
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Following the example of Mr. Tegetmeier, I separated two combs, and put between them a long, thick, rectangular strip of wax: the bees instantly began to excavate minute circular pits in it; and as they deepened these little pits, they made them wider and wider until they were converted into shallow basins, appearing to the eye perfectly true or parts of a sphere, and of about the diameter of a cell.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

Duchess Of course, my cook puts it in the soup.
— from Alice in Wonderland A Dramatization of Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" by Alice Gerstenberg

The Marvelous Coffee Package It is doubtful if in all nature there is a more cunningly devised food package than the fruit of the coffee tree.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Of course he combined with this limitation in the scope of his enterprise the most careful polish in its performance.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

I went home, and was ill speedily of a fever, which kept me to my bed for six weeks; and I quitted my couch prodigiously increased in stature, and, at the same time, still more violently in love than I had been even before.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

Though money, either coin or paper, serves generally as the deed of assignment, both to the smaller and to the more considerable portion, it is itself altogether different from what is assigned by it.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

(i) The most common position is immediately after Colossians, as the notice in Col. iv.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

Many of these are richly ornamented with the forms of lions, eagles, and dragons; and no better proof need be advanced than this profusion of carved work, to show, that in their domestic comforts they had stepped far beyond the mere wants and common necessaries of life, and made considerable progress in its refinements and luxuries.
— from History of the Anglo-Saxons, from the Earliest Period to the Norman Conquest Second Edition by Thomas Miller

Et placui (gratare mihi) coepique poetae Inter inhumanos nomen habere Getas.
— from The Provinces of the Roman Empire, from Caesar to Diocletian. v. 1 by Theodor Mommsen

MDCCCLXXXVI. CONTENTS PAGE Introduction ix The Inspiration of Death in Folk-Poetry 1 Nature in Folk-Songs 30 Armenian Folk-Songs 53 Venetian Folk-Songs 89 Sicilian Folk-Songs 122 Greek Songs of Calabria 152 Folk-Songs of Provence 177 The White Paternoster 203 The Diffusion of Ballads 214 Songs for the Rite of May 249 The Idea of Fate in Southern Traditions 270 Folk-Lullabies 299 Folk-Dirges 354 Wo man singt da lass dich ruhig nieder, Böse Menschen haben keine Lieder.
— from Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Evelyn Lilian Hazeldine Carrington, contessa

Judge, my charming Philander , if I have not reason to be fearful of thy safety, and my fame; and to be jealous that so wise a man as Monsieur did not take that parly to be held with a spirit last night, or that it was an apparition he courted: but if there be no boldness like that of love, nor courage like that of a lover; sure there never was so great a heroine as Sylvia .
— from Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister by Aphra Behn

In more complex patterns it is often advisable to take the number of ends which is the L.C.M. of the ends in the two patterns in order to get a complete number of intersections in each case.
— from Cotton Weaving and Designing 6th Edition by John T. Taylor

On this account it is false, and must consequently prove, in its external effects, nothing less than evil, injurious, and destructive.
— from The philosophy of life, and philosophy of language, in a course of lectures by Friedrich von Schlegel

Above all, was it inevitable that in the realisation of its dreams, when wealth and power grew and money came pouring into it, there should be bred in the people an extraordinary and unwholesome love of speculation which in turn opened their opportunities to the gambler and the confidence-man of all kinds and sizes.
— from The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations by Harry Perry Robinson

Mrs. Jameson and Mr. Cunningham place it in 1668.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 211, November 12, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

I bring him a soul which has triumphed over torture and Roman malice keener than any torture--I bring him a mind which has eyes to see gold at a distance farther than the ships of Solomon sailed, and power to bring it to hand--ay, Esther, into my palm here for the fingers to grip and keep lest it take wings at some other's word--a mind skilled at scheming"--he stopped and laughed--"Why, Esther, before the new moon which in the courts of the Temple on the Holy Hill they are this moment celebrating passes into its next quartering I could ring the world so as to startle even Caesar; for know you, child, I have that faculty which is better than any one sense, better than a perfect body, better than courage and will, better than experience, ordinarily the best product of the longest lives--the faculty divinest of men, but which"--he stopped, and laughed again, not bitterly, but with real zest--"but which even the great do not sufficiently account, while with the herd it is a non-existent--the faculty of drawing men to my purpose and holding them faithfully to its achievement, by which, as against things to be done, I multiply myself into hundreds and thousands.
— from Ben-Hur: A tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace

Mademoiselle de Blois, the eldest daughter of Madame de la Valliere, is the handsomest, most charming person it is possible to imagine.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various