I speak advisedly when I say this,—that killing a slave, or any colored person, in Talbot county, Maryland, is not treated as a crime, either by the courts or the community.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

Meade's position afterwards proved embarrassing to me if not to him.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

This contraction of the lines, with the necessary citadels and redoubts, will make it necessary to destroy the very houses used by families as residences.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

And here his sagacity must make it needless to observe how artfully these chapters are calculated for that excellent purpose; for in these we have always taken care to intersperse somewhat of the sour or acid kind, in order to sharpen and stimulate the said spirit of criticism.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

The evil lies yet deeper: in her total ignorance, unsuspiciousness of there being such feelings; in a perversion of mind which made it natural to her to treat the subject as she did.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Besides, the numerical superiority that we have to meet is not that of an army on land with everything else equal, but of troops on board ship, upon an element where many favourable accidents are required to act with effect.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

To speak more plainly, the complexity of modern art influences may make it necessary to call attention to the primitive principles of expression that should never be lost sight of in any work, but hardly justifies the attitude of those anarchists in art who would flout the heritage of culture we possess and attempt a new start.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

Thus much of music, which makes a fair ending; for what should be the end of music if not the love of beauty? I agree, he said.
— from The Republic by Plato

At any rate, if mankind is not to be led astray by such a universal rule of conduct, it behooves it to attain a knowledge of the condition of culture that will serve as a scientific standard of comparison in connection with cosmical ends.
— from Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Strange to think of, the man's cloak still seems to hold the same man: and yet the man is not there, his volition is not there; nor the source of what he will do and devise; instead of the man and his volition there is a piece of Fanaticism and Fatalism incarnated in the shape of him.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

This made it necessary to send a great number of ships to the Pacific coast, and I saw that it was essential to the success of the trade to send large boats that could make profits on this long voyage.
— from My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands, Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year by George Francis Train

Such a man is not to be accused of undue tenderness towards heretics, and yet, in his register of sentences from 1246 to 1248, there is not a single case of abandonment to the secular arm, unless we may reckon as such the condemnations of contumacious absentees, who were necessarily declared to be heretics.
— from A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea

When you have the slides all made, nothing more is needed to mount an object, than simply to [124] attach it to the bottom of the hole with a little mucilage and glycerine, or something of that sort, and finally to write the name of the object on the front part of the slide, and on the back any desirable notes.
— from Through a Microscope Something of the Science, Together with many Curious Observations Indoor and Out and Directions for a Home-made Microscope. by Frederick Leroy Sargent

But just ... just because of all that, I may tell you, may I not, to be careful?
— from Dr. Adriaan by Louis Couperus

The human writers became in their eyes the puppets and mouthpieces of some magical influence, not the disciples of a living and loving person.
— from Alexandria and Her Schools Four Lectures Delivered at the Philosophical Institution, Edinburgh by Charles Kingsley

Because he is rational, man is not the less subject to gravitation and cohesion and chemical affinity.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

All institutions have come out of mores, although the rational element in them is sometimes so large that their origin in the mores is not to be ascertained except by a historical investigation (legislatures, courts, juries, joint-stock companies, the stock exchange).
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

In 1899 it was discontinued on account of the small appropriation that was made for the maintenance of the institution, making it necessary to curtail expenses.
— from A Plea for the Criminal Being a reply to Dr. Chapple's work: 'The Fertility of the Unfit', and an Attempt to explain the leading principles of Criminological and Reformatory Science by James Leslie Allan Kayll

The village centred about where High Street, Marylebone, is now to be found, and the church and the village pound stood apart.
— from Half-hours with the Highwaymen - Vol 1 Picturesque Biographies and Traditions of the "Knights of the Road" by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper