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Owing to the morbid estrangement which the nationality-craze has induced and still induces among the nations of Europe, owing also to the short-sighted and hasty-handed politicians, who with the help of this craze, are at present in power, and do not suspect to what extent the disintegrating policy they pursue must necessarily be only an interlude policy—owing to all this and much else that is altogether unmentionable at present, the most unmistakable signs that EUROPE WISHES TO BE ONE, are now overlooked, or arbitrarily and falsely misinterpreted.
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
no sólo entre las universidades de un país, o entre las facultades o escuelas de una misma universidad, sino también entre teams o equipos de distintos países.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson
Narrative of an expedition to the source of St. Peter’s River, etc., performed in the year 1823 under the command of Stephen H. Long, Major U. S. T. E. Compiled by William H. Keating.
— from Picture-Writing of the American Indians Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1888-89, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1893, pages 3-822 by Garrick Mallery
"Is it your private opinion that our good doctor got up a streak of disinterested enthusiasm over my unworthy self this evening?"
— from Ester Ried by Pansy
At the first muster under Servius Tullius, eighty thousand citizen soldiers appeared in the Campus Martius under arms, each man in his proper century, each century in its class, and each class by itself.
— from Ancient Society Or, Researches in the Lines of Human Progress from Savagery, through Barbarism to Civilization by Lewis Henry Morgan
"Why, it's the merest Utopianism," says the Economist .
— from Mr. Punch's History of Modern England, Vol. 1 (of 4).—1841-1857 by Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves
By any mourner under sun That e'en it ended fit but one!"
— from The Lost Lady of Lone by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
“Andy,” said Bartley, in a pathetic tone of injury, “can't you scare me up something to eat?”
— from A Modern Instance by William Dean Howells
Besides, we want to make up something to eat; these left-over biscuits and some dried venison will just fill the bill.
— from Rocky Mountain Boys; Or, Camping in the Big Game Country by St. George Rathborne
With increasing experience and with a growing power to argue from ascertained facts, character becomes formed, and if tempered by discipline will come to present a more and more unyielding surface to environment, until finally it becomes set into the stability of adult age.
— from The Nervous Child by Hector Charles Cameron
The above methods are all very good, but if a particularly shy animal refuses to enter the pen, try setting in a natural enclosure, and if this fails, try the following method: Under some thick evergreen tree, scrape up a cone shaped pile of snow, making it two feet high and pack the snow solid.
— from Science of Trapping Describes the Fur Bearing Animals, Their Nature, Habits and Distribution, with Practical Methods for Their Capture by Elmer Harry Kreps
These, he says, “rob us of Paradise”: they make us strangers to each other, destroy feelings of brotherhood, and sow the bitter seed of war.
— from The Secrets of the Self (Asrar-i Khudi) — A Philosophical Poem by Iqbal, Muhammad, Sir
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