The Master said, 'The progress of the superior man is upwards; the progress of the mean man is downwards.' CHAP.
— from The Analects of Confucius (from the Chinese Classics) by Confucius

(1866.), 255 -270 Reconstruction period; Anti-Slavery Society declines coalition with Woman's Rights Society; Miss Anthony and Mrs. Stanton issue strong call for the reassembling in New York of Woman's Rights forces; Robert Purvis and Anna Dickinson approve; convention meets in Dr. Cheever's church; Miss Anthony and Mrs. Stanton present ringing Address to Congress; Miss Anthony's speech for union of the two organizations; Equal Rights Association formed; controversy of Phillips, Tilton, Anthony, Stanton in Standard office; Standard's offer of space rejected; Miss Anthony's speech at Equal Rights meeting in Albany; abusive article from N.Y. World; mass meetings held and petitions circulated to have women included in Fourteenth Amendment; Republicans refuse to recognize their claims; Democrats favor them to defeat the negroes; Miss Anthony complains of Standard's treatment; words from friends and foes.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

Such were the first effects which we can see to have followed the division of mankind into different communities.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

[4300] A famous cordial Matthiolus in Dioscoridum calls it, an excellent nutriment to refresh the body, it makes a good colour, a flourishing age, helps concoction, fortifies the stomach, takes away obstructions, provokes urine, drives out excrements, procures sleep, clears the blood, expels wind and cold poisons, attenuates, concocts, dissipates all thick vapours, and fuliginous humours.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

What now does the divine immanence mean in direct Christian experience?
— from The Pursuit of God by A. W. (Aiden Wilson) Tozer

Simeon Halliday, a tall, straight, muscular man, in drab coat and pantaloons, and broad-brimmed hat, now entered.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

This will bring me in direct communication with General Grant.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Thus Juno pleaded; and all the heavenly people murmured in diverse consent; even as rising gusts murmur when caught in the forests, and eddy in blind moanings, betraying to sailors the gale's approach.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

[Reads] 'So it is, besieged with sable-coloured melancholy, I did commend the black oppressing humour to the most wholesome physic of thy health-giving air; and, as I am a gentleman, betook myself to walk.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Nor think this censure is severe on thee; Satan, thy master, I dare call a dunce.
— from Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Edward Young

Treating of a disease resulting from an assemblage of symptoms, some of which do not appear to have yet engaged the general notice of the profession, particular care is required whilst endeavouring to mark its diagnostic characters.
— from An Essay on the Shaking Palsy by James Parkinson

Thus, the spores of the unicellular Schizomycetes are estimated to dimensions as low as 1/10,000 of a millimetre in diameter (Cornil et Babes, _Les Batteries_, 1. 37).
— from The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays by John Joly

Earlier than the dates of Christian records in Palestine, did the religious feeling of man, in different climes, select water as one of its best formal expressions; and, though not heretofore
— from Memoir of Rev. Joseph Badger Fourth Edition by E. G. (Elihu Goodwin) Holland

She knew so little of this man, who was but a chance acquaintance; and yet already he appeared inexplicably mixed up in her life, acquainted with all the most intimate details concerning her.
— from The Bigamist by F. E. Mills (Florence Ethel Mills) Young

The whole burro cavalcade laden with the treasure started from an old Spanish mission in Dolores County.
— from Options by O. Henry

But, admiring the act as we do, we must still be permitted to observe, that there was a degree of imprudence in it which fully justified other members of the family in their endeavours to dissuade Lamb from his resolution, and which would have justified the authorities (whoever they were—and about this matter there seems a singular obscurity, and a suspicion is created that even in proceedings of this nature much is done carelessly, informally, uncertainly) in refusing to accede to his request.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 66 No.406, August 1849 by Various

One must indeed deal carefully with such cases, for it is always difficult to say what changes are new departures, and what are returns to ancestral types.
— from Evolution by James A. S. (James Anderson Scott) Watson