In this urgency of my affairs, I wrote to my uncle in England, though my hopes from that quarter were not at all sanguine, for the reasons I have already explained; and in the meantime had recourse to my old remedy patience, consoling myself with the flattering suggestions of a lively imagination, that never abandoned me in my distress.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

“This Hermann,” continued Tomsky, “is a man of romantic personality.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I further stated, that, in my judgment, a tolerably well conducted press, in the hands of persons of the despised race, by calling out the mental energies of the race itself; by making them acquainted with their own latent powers; by enkindling among them the hope that for them there is a future; by developing their moral power; by combining and reflecting their talents—would prove a most powerful means of removing prejudice, and of awakening an interest in them.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

—I saw to-day a sight I had never seen before—and it amazed, and made me serious; three quite good-looking American men, of respectable personal presence, two of them young, carrying chiffonier-bags on their shoulders, and the usual long iron hooks in their hands, plodding along, their eyes cast down, spying for scraps, rags, bones, &c. DEMOCRACY IN THE NEW WORLD Estimated and summ'd-up to-day, having thoroughly justified itself the past hundred years, (as far as growth, vitality and power are concern'd,) by severest and most varied trials of peace and war, and having establish'd itself for good, with all its necessities and benefits, for time to come, is now to be seriously consider'd also in its pronounc'd and already developt dangers.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

A new music is arising, the music of rhymed poetry, and in the songs of Aucassin and Nicolette, which seem always on the point of passing into true rhyme, but which halt somehow, and can never quite take flight, you see people just growing aware of the elements of a new music in their possession, and anticipating how pleasant such music might become.
— from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater

The Making of Religion , pp.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

And she made peace, for no peace is like this, That beauty, and chastity together kisse: 365 She did high justice, for she crucified Every first motion of rebellious pride: [page 262]
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

Mr. Tulliver was not by any means an exception in mistaking brazenness for shrewdness; most laymen thought Stelling shrewd, and a man of remarkable powers generally; it was chiefly by his clerical brethren that he was considered rather a dull fellow.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

843 The three marks of religion: perpetuity, a good life, miracles.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

Officials of these several kinds," he continues, "should be secretly approached and bound to one's interests by means of rich presents.
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi

This was no easy matter, but Humboldt was a man of rare perseverance.
— from Celebrated Travels and Travellers, Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century by Jules Verne

There was forward just then a question as to whether the Sawab of Mygawb should have twenty millions of rupees paid to him and be placed upon a throne, or whether he should be kept in prison all his life.
— from The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope

Wallachia was ruled by Vlad the Impaler, an able but cruel man, who seems to have earned the infamy of inventing a form of torture still practised in the Balkans as a matter of religious proselytising, that of sitting the victim on a sharp stake, and leaving him to die slowly as the stake penetrated his body.
— from The Balkan Peninsula by Frank Fox

Operations in Several Figures 225 Addition 225 Subtraction 227 Multiplication 228 Multiplying on Ruled Paper 235 Long Division 237 V. Exercises with Numbers 241 Multiples, Prime Numbers and Factoring 241 VI.
— from The Montessori Elementary Material The Advanced Montessori Method by Maria Montessori

Has not authentic history clearly revealed in the case of these nations the painful yet inevitable merging of rival, particularistic and independent cities and principalities into one unified national entity, the evolving of a crude and narrow creed into a nobler and wider conception?
— from Bahá'í Administration by Effendi Shoghi

To glaze pastry, which is the usual method adopted for meat or raised pies, break an egg, separate the yolk from the white, and beat the former for a short time.
— from The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton

I hate M'Loughlin upon personal principles—I hate the man, not his religion; and here there must be passion: but in matters of religion, Phil, there is nothing so powerful—so destructive—so lasting—so sharp in persecution—and so successful, as a passionless resentment.
— from Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by William Carleton

In the Advancement of Learning he says:— “There remaineth yet another use of poesy parabolical, opposite to that which we last mentioned; for that tendeth xxv to demonstrate and illustrate that which is taught or delivered, and this other to retire and obscure it; that is, when the secrets and mysteries of religion, policy, or philosophy are involved in fables or parables.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

2. set a mark of reprobation , Pope’s note to The Two Gentlemen of Verona .
— from The Collected Works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 01 (of 12) by William Hazlitt