From thence going to my Lady I met with a letter from my Lord (which Andrew had been at my house to bring me and missed me), commanding me to go to Mr. Denham, to get a man to go to him to-morrow to Hinchinbroke, to contrive with him about some alterations in his house, which I did and got Mr. Kennard.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Except Herodotus, the great historians of Greece—we exclude the more modern compilers, like Diodorus Siculus—limited themselves to a single period, or at least to the contracted sphere of Grecian affairs.
— 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

6.—“No state at war with another shall countenance such modes of hostility as would make mutual confidence impossible in a subsequent state of peace: such are the employment of assassins ( percussores ) or of poisoners ( venefici ), breaches of capitulation, the instigating and making use of treachery ( perduellio ) in the hostile state.”
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

We have museums, menageries, camels.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Messer-Grande then made me over to the warden of The Leads, who stood by with an enormous bunch of keys, and accompanied by two guards, made me climb two short flights of stairs, at the top of which followed a passage and then another gallery, at the end of which he opened a door, and I found myself in a dirty garret, thirty-six feet long by twelve broad, badly lighted by a window high up in the roof.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The meek man cares not at all who is greater than he, for he has long ago decided that the esteem of the world is not worth the effort.
— from The Pursuit of God by A. W. (Aiden Wilson) Tozer

He introduced himself under the pretence of inquiring after all our healths, and entered the room with the easy air of an old acquaintance; though Mrs. Mirvan confessed that he seemed embarrassed when he found how coldly he was received, not only by the Captain, but by herself.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

As I have already made abundantly clear, this girl was not one of my most congenial buddies.
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

Insularum ad Africam terram maxima est in Rubro mari Menuthias Cerne Plinio dicta; nunc vulgo insula
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. by Richard Hakluyt

"Oh, my master!" cried Pentaur, "how tender is thy severity."
— from Uarda : a Romance of Ancient Egypt — Volume 01 by Georg Ebers

"It only makes me care the more for our friendship, Captain Dane."
— from Athalie by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

"It is indeed sad for Mr. Rose," said Mrs. Madgwick compassionately.
— from The Making of a Soul by Kathlyn Rhodes

And Father Anton, because he did not understand, because it seemed that the disillusionment must have been so much more complete and so much more cruel and hard to bear than he had feared it would be, and because her renunciation was accepted so bravely, turned away his head and did not answer.
— from The Belovéd Traitor by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard

But he would not allow even Ruth to influence him in regard to his political predilections, for, when she tried to persuade him to take a more moderate course, he sternly replied he would not desist from exercising what he believed to be his right, not even for her, much as he loved her.
— from From Wealth to Poverty; Or, the Tricks of the Traffic. A Story of the Drink Curse by Austin Potter

We have seen that there is a physiological relation, common to man and all animals, between feeling and muscular action; that as vocal sounds are produced by muscular action, there is a consequent physiological relation between feeling and vocal sounds; that all the modifications of voice expressive of feeling are the direct results of this physiological relation; that music, adopting all these modifications, intensifies them more and more as it ascends to its higher and higher forms, and becomes music simply in virtue of thus intensifying them; that, from the ancient epic poet chanting his verses, down to the modern musical composer, men of unusually strong feelings prone to express them in extreme forms, have been naturally the agents of these successive intensifications; and that so there has little by little arisen a wide divergence between this idealised language of emotion and its natural language: to which direct evidence we have just added the indirect—that on no other tenable hypothesis can either the expressiveness or the genesis of music be explained.
— from Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Herbert Spencer

I promise you, Monseigneur, that, whatever my accusers do, they will not make me change conduct towards them, and that I shall still treat them with consideration.
— from France and England in North America, Part V: Count Frontenac, New France, Louis XIV by Francis Parkman