May the devil be damned, I have it now: their fathers devoured the good gentlemen who, according to their state of life, used to go much a-hunting and hawking, to be the better inured to toil in time of war; for hunting is an image of a martial life, and Xenophon was much in the right of it when he affirmed that hunting had yielded a great number of excellent warriors, as well as the Trojan horse.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

A coward becomes a brave man in the regiment of Navarre.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Then if all mythology is the result of a sort of verbal delirium, the question which we raised remains intact: the existence, and especially the persistence of the cult become inexplicable.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

This is the lesson which we may gather from the experience of nurses, and likewise from the use of the remedy of motion in the rites o
— from Laws by Plato

Meaning, probably, his being sent for from his studies to be exposed at his uncle's marriage as his chiefest courtier , and being thereby placed too much in the radiance of the king's presence; or, perhaps, an allusion to the proverb, " Out of Heaven's blessing, into the warm sun: " but it is not unlikely that a quibble is meant between son and sun .
— from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare

His outward life was commonplace and uninteresting; he was just a hotel-porter, and expected to remain one while he lived; but meantime, in the realm of thought, his life was a perpetual adventure.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Aquitaine , which included what were afterwards called Guyenne, Xantoigne, Gascoigne, and some islands, gave title to a King of Heralds as early as the reign of Edward III., and it is conjectured to have been an officer belonging to the Black Prince, who had the principality of Aquitaine given to him by his father; but although this officer is mentioned in the reign of Richard II.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

My father had often, during my imprisonment, heard me make the same assertion; when I thus accused myself, he sometimes seemed to desire an explanation, and at others he appeared to consider it as caused by delirium, and that, during my illness, some idea of this kind had presented itself to my imagination, the remembrance of which I preserved in my convalescence.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

An example of what I mean is shown in a story told of George Washington, who, meeting a coloured man in the road once, who politely lifted his hat, lifted his own in return.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

At its most flourishing period it numbered over 2000 members, including the rulers of several German States.—
— from The Quest of the Historical Jesus A Critical Study of its Progress from Reimarus to Wrede by Albert Schweitzer

In this rough country, where an advance was only possible along the main roads or along well-worn paths, each column, with its inevitable train of pack-animals and loaded carriers, sprawled down the tracks for miles in the rear of the advancing force, men and beasts alike being often compelled to go in single file.
— from The Gold Coast Regiment in the East African Campaign by Clifford, Hugh Charles, Sir

Very little mention of them is made in the records of this period.
— from The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 by Various

Nothing strikes one more, in the race of life, than to see how many give out in the first half of the course.
— from The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Editions by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Moreover, the closing words of the book breathe a spirit of universalism and humanity that is almost the high-water mark of Old Testament inspiration, and this encourages the reader to look for some deeper meaning in the rest of the book.
— from The Evolution of Old Testament Religion by W. E. (William Edwin) Orchard

And his first movement, especially if he has read that terrible novel, " Fort comme la Mort ," of De Maupassant, is to rush out into the street and propose to the first girl he encounters, in order to avoid this dreadful nightmare of a solitary old age.
— from Mental Efficiency, and Other Hints to Men and Women by Arnold Bennett

The importance of the moon in the regulation of the calendar saved her from this fate.
— from The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow

We meet in the reign of George II other forms of wigs and other titles; the most popular was the pigtail wig.
— from Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) by Alice Morse Earle

The metal and quartz plating-all signs of human presence-had been completely destroyed, melted into the rock of the asteroid.
— from The Runaway Asteroid by Michael D. Cooper

So that even if the working-men did not know that the Unions hold the emulation of their masters in the reduction of wages, at least in a measure, in check, they would still stand by the Unions, simply to the injury of their enemies, the manufacturers.
— from The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 by Friedrich Engels