Clark, November 15, 1805] November 15th Friday 1805 Rained all the last night, this morning it became Calm and fair, I preposed Setting out, and ordered the Canoes Repared and loaded; before we could load our canoes the wind Sudenly Sprung up from the S. E and blew with Such violence, that we could not proceed in Safty with the loading.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

See however a mutilated inscription (Boeckh Corp. Inscr. 3956) with the letters ...
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

To fill up a work with these scraps may, indeed, be considered as a downright cheat on the learned world, who are by such means imposed upon to buy a second time, in fragments and by retail, what they have already in gross, if not in their memories, upon their shelves; and it is still more cruel upon the illiterate, who are drawn in to pay for what is of no manner of use to them.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Perchance, then, as meat is by chewing the cud brought up out of the belly, so by recollection these out of the memory.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Yet it believes it is a whole, and seeing not the body on which it depends, it believes it depends only on self, and desires to make itself both centre and body.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

At least, said he, today shall it not cost his host much if by chance he should die as drunk as a Switzer.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

The more I contemplated my situation, however, the more I became confirmed in my suspicions.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

It seems to grow nearer and nearer every day, that black, pitiless tide; not rushing upon me with a great noise and a mighty impetus, but crawling, creeping, stealing, gliding toward me, ready to close in above my head when I am least prepared for the end.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

And on the bleached bones Red clay brought forth: Till the villain left the paths of ease To walk in perilous paths, and drive The just man into barren climes.
— from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake

I was expected to celebrate my initiation by challenging three non-members, which I proceeded to do, licked two and met my match in the third.
— from Confessions of Boyhood by John Albee

To whatever I have said of you already, therefore, I now volunteer to add, that I think you not only the one man in Britain capable of bringing Metaphysical Philosophy, in the ultimate, German or European, and highest actual form of it, distinctly home to the understanding of British men who wish to understand it, but that I notice in you farther, on the moral side, a sound strength of intellectual discernment, a noble valour and reverence of mind, which seems to me to mark you out as the man capable of doing us the highest service in Ethical science too: that of restoring, or decisively beginning to restore, the doctrine of morals to what I must ever reckon its one true and everlasting basis (namely, the divine or supra-sensual one), and thus of victoriously reconciling and rendering identical the latest dictates of modern science with the earliest dawnings of wisdom among the race of men.
— from On the Choice of Books by Thomas Carlyle

i, under the heading, 'True magnanimity is based chiefly on two things'): "Nothing is so narrow or little minded as to love money."
— from Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

The columns of the enemy will be blocked for many hours while the mass is being cleared away.
— from The Romance of Aircraft by Laurence Yard Smith

[9] See a remarkable letter to Lorenzo, dated 1475, in which he speaks of the neglected muses, in Bandini, Collectio veterum monumentorum , p. 1.
— from Lorenzo de' Medici, the Magnificent (vol. 2 of 2) by Alfred von Reumont

Woman, as the mother of the race, was not honored and revered as such, the monastic idea being considered more God-like, she was made the instrument of sin.
— from The Woman's Bible by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Nor were the new men in better condition.
— from From the St. Lawrence to the Yser with the 1st Canadian brigade by Frederic C. Curry

It was night when de white folks tried to go away, and still night when de Yankees brung dem back, and a house nigger come down to de quarters wid three—four mens in blue clothes and told us to come up to de Big House.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives by United States. Work Projects Administration

May it be consecrated by the German spirit which away over the centuries sends forth its youthful morning-greeting to you.”
— from Life of Wagner Biographies of Musicians by Ludwig Nohl

Passing from these thoughts which may illustrate, but cannot explain, a subject dark with excess of splendour, we now enter on a series of extracts so chosen as to furnish an ample examination of the several ideas involved in the philosophy of Design, and an estimate of their several values.
— from The Philosophy of Natural Theology An Essay in confutation of the scepticism of the present day by William Jackson