With these powers of eloquence, Mahomet was an illiterate Barbarian: his youth had never been instructed in the arts of reading and writing; 70 the common ignorance exempted him from shame or reproach, but he was reduced to a narrow circle of existence, and deprived of those faithful mirrors, which reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
— 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

40 are Ed: are, 1633-69 58 me to mee; thee, 1635-69 , A18 , A25 , JC , N , P , TC ( generally mee, in MSS.: ) me to mee; shee, 1633: me to thee, thee Chambers halfe ,] harte A25 , JC , P 59-60 So may thy cheekes outweare all scarlet dye May blisse and thee be one eternallye P: om.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

It is difficult for me to think of any situation that is more trying on the nerves than that of conducting a large institution, with heavy obligations to meet, without knowing where the money is to come from to meet these obligations from month to month.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

Thus, suppose I should think that I saw a form, and heard a voice cry "Johnson, you are a very wicked fellow, and unless you repent you will certainly be punished;" my own unworthiness is so deeply impressed upon my mind, that I might IMAGINE I thus saw and heard, and therefore I should not believe that an external communication had been made to me.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

Boldwood as a means to marriage was unexceptionable: she esteemed and liked him, yet she did not want him.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

And Honour proceeded—“Then to be sure, my lady gave me that muff; and afterwards, upon hearing what you had done”—“Then you told her what I had done?” interrupted Jones.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Blessed is the man that maketh short speeches, for he shall be invited to speak again.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

[ 2 ] La Fontaine's dedication is in initials thus:--"A. M. L. C. D. B." which are interpreted by some as meaning, "To M. the Chevalier de Bouillon" (as above), and by others as meaning, "To Monseigneur le Cardinal de Bouillon."
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

Moreover, the analogy of the human mind suggests the probability that, if God is Mind, there must be in Him, as in us, the three activities of Thought, Feeling, and Will, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
— from Philosophy and Religion Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge by Hastings Rashdall

So, the large-headed, small-bodied man runs more to mental than to physical activities, and is invariably more mature in his thinking.
— from How to Analyze People on Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types by Elsie Lincoln Benedict

[37] “The way I see it,” he finished, “whoever it was phoned me to make sure I was in the room and then went out and fired a rocket at my window.”
— from Unwise Child by Randall Garrett

He would give a glassful of milk punch in tablespoonful doses, repeating every ten or fifteen minutes; this method is advised for the treatment and cure of dyspepsia, anæmia, chlorosis, nervous diseases and even organic diseases of the stomach.
— from Femina, A Work for Every Woman by John A. (John Alexander) Miller

The storm of his displeasure, (even though they get their souls for a prey, yea so much the more as he will not suffer them to perish eternally) shalt be observed to fall particularly upon their houses, interests and estates.
— from A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Alexander Shields

How different from the giant, motionless the moment that he is thrown upon his back, sometimes picking himself up only after an hour of inaction!
— from The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles by Jean-Henri Fabre

But in regard, Christ is in all Men as in a Seed , yea, and that he never is nor can be separate from that holy pure Seed and Light which is in all Men ; therefore may it be said in a larger Sense, that he is in all ,
— from An Apology for the True Christian Divinity Being an explanation and vindication of the principles and doctrines of the people called Quakers by Robert Barclay

For long ambition has been like an ancient memory to me, some glorious day recalled from my springtime, so much a thing of the past that I must make a railway journey to revisit it as to look upon the pleasant fields in which that scene was laid.
— from The Little White Bird; Or, Adventures in Kensington Gardens by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie