From the latter point of view, to be a man of honor is to exercise what is often a very wholesome, but by no means a purely moral, influence.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer

This is the first mention of him in the essays; but we shall meet him again, particularly in "Amicus Redivivus.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

The weapon missed the Chevalier, but laid low a centenier, who, though a municipal officer, had in the excitement lost his head like his neighbours.
— from The Battle of the Strong: A Romance of Two Kingdoms — Complete by Gilbert Parker

On Saturday, the Democratic Committee of Allegheny 106 County met in Pittsburgh at the call of its chairman, William J. Brennen, Esq., the attorney for the Amalgamated Association, and, after the completion of routine business, adopted, by an unanimous vote, resolutions sympathizing with the men of Homestead in their efforts to "maintain American and resist European pauper wages," condoling with the friends of those who had been "shot down by the hirelings of a greedy and arbitrary combination of capital" and denouncing Pinkertonism.
— from Homestead A Complete History of the Struggle of July, 1892, between the Carnegie-Steel Company, Limited, and the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers by Arthur Gordon Burgoyne

Neither Spengler, nor Toynbee, nor any one who may have preceded the author of the Mathematics of History in this excursion within history, were able to find it, and, as he himself says, it is understandable that they did not find it, since they searched for it in those changeable unstable abilities of men, starting from factors of psychological, intellectual or moral order, since each one of us is different.
— from The Mathematical-Historical Principles and the Evolution of Liberty by Víctor José Fernández Bolívar

Mr. Bagehot contends that this process consisted, as a matter of history, in the establishment of government by discussion.
— from Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic by Sidney Lewis Gulick

“Mine own hide is tanned enough for the present.
— from Robin Hood by J. Walker (Joseph Walker) McSpadden

Khalil I cannot part with from my side— My only help in this emergency: There's Anael!
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

Taking command of the parade, I ordered the troops to form square, and, mounted on horseback, I then entered it, accompanied by the officers, attendants, and officials.
— from Fire and Sword in the Sudan A Personal Narrative of Fighting and Serving the Dervishes 1879-1895 by Slatin, Rudolf Carl, Freiherr von

My other hope is that even they—that is to say the least unbalanced of them—will come in time to realize that socialism is economically unsound—" "Do you mean to say," cried Mrs. Abbott, "that Alexina has gone to socialist meetings?" "Rather.
— from The Sisters-In-Law: A Novel of Our Time by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

Catholic Society for the Burial of the Poor; Society for the Propagation of the Faith; Establishment at London of a Seminary for Missions among the Heathen; Missions of Herzégovines in Turkey; Erection of a Catholic Church and Schools in St. Petersburg; Foundation of a Belgian Mission in China; Pilgrimages to Rome; Means of consolidating and developing Catholic
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various