“Whatever may be my fate,” says Tom, “let me succeed in my intercessions for the poor girl.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Not only because he has had longer and greater experience of the subject than any other thinker,—all history is indeed the experimental [Pg 134] refutation of the theory of the so-called moral order of things,—but because of the more important fact that Zarathustra was the most truthful of thinkers.
— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

There is a captivating elegance thrown around the theogonies of Greece and Rome, which we fail to impart to the Hindu; though that elegant scholar, Sir William Jones, could make even Sanskrit literature fascinating; and that it merits the attempt intrinsically, we may infer from the charm it possesses to the learned chieftain of Rajasthan.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

The conqueror of Rome and Carthage was modestly seated at the feet of Antonina, who reclined on a stately couch: the general was silent, but the voice of reproach and menace issued from the mouth of his imperious wife.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Meanwhile in France the closing of Grand Lodge had not prevented meetings of Lacorne's group, which, on the death of the Duc de Clermont in 1772, instituted the "Grand Orient" with the Duc de Chartres--the future "Philippe Égalité"--as Grand Master.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

If Photius had not been so wretchedly concise, we should derive much information from the contemporary histories of Malchus and Candidus.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Where a passion is neither founded on false suppositions, nor chuses means insufficient for the end, the understanding can neither justify nor condemn it.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

At one time he was my most intimate friend, the friend who knows one's thoughts, with whom one passes long, quiet, happy evenings, to whom one tells one's secret love affairs, and who seems to draw out those rare, ingenious, delicate thoughts born of that sympathy that gives a sense of repose.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Will Ladislaw was in one of those tangled crises which are commoner in experience than one might imagine, from the shallow absoluteness of men's judgments.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Moreover, I fed the men who were with him with barley meal from the public store, and got subscriptions of wine and oxen for them to sacrifice to their heart's content.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

For in God's sight I was begotten and commenced, being multiplied immediately "from the beginning of the world."
— from Commentary on Genesis, Vol. 1: Luther on the Creation by Martin Luther

What have you been doing, moping indoors for the last ten days instead of playing in the fresh air?"
— from Tell England A Study in a Generation by Ernest Raymond

The next morning I found that I was hoarse from having joined in the exulting cry of "Peace! peace!"
— from Peter Parley's Own Story From the Personal Narrative of the Late Samuel G. Goodrich, ("Peter Parley") by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich

The buttercup is one of the most interesting flowers that secrete nectar.
— from Birds and All Nature, Vol. 6, No. 4, November 1899 In Natural Colors by Various

The trip was made without losing an animal or suffering in any way worth mentioning; in fact, to this day many of the company speak of the trip as one of pleasure rather than suffering.
— from Forty Years Among the Indians A true yet thrilling narrative of the author's experiences among the natives by Daniel W. (Daniel Webster) Jones

As a result the "Montaigne" is, for type, remarkable in its artistic freedom, and its forms are well worthy the study of the designer.
— from Letters & Lettering: A Treatise with 200 Examples by Frank Chouteau Brown

"You might drive me in for those stockings, Gheena," said Lancelot.
— from The Scratch Pack by Dorothea Conyers

The site was selected by James H. Caldwell, Esq., to whom New Orleans is mainly indebted for this great undertaking, as well as for many others which stand as lasting eulogiums to his memory.
— from Norman's New Orleans and Environs Containing a Brief Historical Sketch of the Territory and State of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Benjamin Moore Norman

It is evident that the two hidden layers are a very appreciable impediment to the current, aside from the more important fact that the liquid will traverse this side less rapidly than the other, and thus occasion an imperfect washing of the precipitate, or at least prolong the operation beyond reasonable limits.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

"We are all much obliged by your kindness to TN: "Kiss" changed to "Miss" Miss Peters sir," her companion hastened to say, and both bowed most politely to my disclaimers of merit for so ordinary an act of humanity as that to which they referred, and to my inquiries for the health of my fair patient.
— from The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews by Margaret C. (Margaret Cockburn) Conkling