The impulsive cause of these miseries in man, this privation or destruction of God's image, the cause of death and diseases, of all temporal and eternal punishments, was the sin of our first parent Adam, [832] in eating of the forbidden fruit, by the devil's instigation and allurement.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

[Pg xv] more valuable than a mere iconoclast. Of course, on every page of his philosophy,—whatever his enemies may maintain to the contrary,—he never once ceases to construct, since he is incessantly enumerating and emphasising those qualities and types which he fain would rear, as against those he fain would see destroyed; but it is in aphorism 57 of this book that Nietzsche makes the plainest and most complete statement of his actual taste in Sociology, and it is upon this aphorism that all his followers and disciples will ultimately have to build, if Nietzscheism is ever to become something more than a merely intellectual movement.
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

What I mean I may explain by an illustration of what I do not mean.
— from Euthyphro by Plato

On the other hand, Lady Caroline was very anxious that the world should not know the extent of the breach between the two families; and she argued that it would be very marked if Margaret stayed away from a large garden party to which "everybody" went, and where it would be very easy to do nothing more than exchange a mere passing salutation with Sir Philip.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

Then said another with a long-drawn Sigh, "My Clay with long oblivion is gone dry: But, fill me with the old familiar Juice, Methinks I might recover by-and-bye!" LXVI.
— from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam

I have taken care of her others.—Indeed she shan't, said I.—Nay, said Nan, but I must if my mistress bids me: so pray, madam, don't hinder me.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

by which they sufficiently betray their tricks, and make it manifest to us that they therein more consider their own reputation, and consequently their profit, than their patient’s interest.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

“Never mind,” said he, “we shall get some good bread in the morning; it must get up by that time.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

I have all along expected to die a widow; but, as Mr. S. is rather good-looking than otherwise, I must say I don't care if we compromise the matter by—really, Mr. Printer, I can't help blushin'—but I—it must come out—I—but widowed modesty—well, if I must, I must—wouldn't he—maybe sorter, let the old grudge drap if I was to consent to be—be—h-i-s w-i-f-e?
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

In “Sykes’s Local Records” mention is made of a curious little entry in the parish books of Gateshead, near Newcastle: “Paid as M ris Watson’s when the Justices call to examine witches, 3 s 4 d ; for a graue for a witch, 6 d ; for trying the witches, £1. 5.”
— from Witch Stories by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton

I saw that this little place was to be let, as I passed by one day, immediately after my return, and took it at once, on various accounts, although I did not know how much it might prove of use to poor De Vaux.
— from The Gipsy: A Tale (Vols I & II) by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

It came to me in my bitterness like the smell of lilacs into a sick-room.
— from The Prairie Child by Arthur Stringer

To this day I do not know whether the man was a lunatic, an imposter seeking money, or an agent provocateur , that is, one who imagined that he might through me inveigle M. Zola into an illegal act which would lead to prosecution and imprisonment.
— from With Zola in England: A Story of Exile by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

On the second day the different trades and manufacturing interests made a great display.
— from Peculiarities of American Cities by Willard W. Glazier

Now the particular difference of temperament that I have in mind in making these remarks is one that has counted in literature, art, government and manners as well as in philosophy.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

"Then why make it, mother?
— from Grandmother Elsie by Martha Finley

"There are, indeed," continued Sir Payan, "some hereditary estates, which, though they should be mine, are held by another; and on that score I may claim your grace's assistance before I endeavour to recover them; for I put my whole actions in your grace's hands, that, like a mere machine, I may move but as you please."
— from Darnley; or, The Field of the Cloth of Gold by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James