" By this time the report of the accident had spread among the workmen and boatmen about the Cobb, and many were collected near them, to be useful if wanted, at any rate, to enjoy the sight of a dead young lady, nay, two dead young ladies, for it proved twice as fine as the first report.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

Never was there a mother who came nearer to knowing nothing save her own household, her husband and children, whether high in the world's esteem or crucified, the same still with her through all.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

He then issued a proclamation that the first man who mounted should have a reward of twelve talents, 582 the man who came next to him the second prize, and the third so on in proportion, so that the last reward should be three hundred darics 583 to the last prize-taker who reached the top.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

At that moment we could not think of returning to France.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

If the dead echo of it still did so much, what could not the living voice of it once do? Finance and Constitution, Law and Gospel: this surely were work enough; yet this is not all.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Time-duration, however, is inseparable from the minimum, notwithstanding that, in an isolated moment, we could not tell which part of it came first, which last....
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Reporting the fact to General Grant, he ordered me to return, to send General Parkes's corps to Haines's Bluff, General Ord's back to Vicksburg, and he consented that I should encamp my whole corps near the Big Black, pretty much on the same ground we had occupied before the movement, and with the prospect of a period of rest for the remainder of the summer.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

as my Will Concurd not to my being, it were but right
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

When a Man is thoroughly perswaded that he ought neither to admire, wish for, or pursue any thing but what is exactly his Duty, it is not in the Power of Seasons, Persons, or Accidents to diminish his Value: He only is a great Man who can neglect the Applause of the Multitude, and enjoy himself independent of its Favour.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

105 As in pure mathematics we can never talk of the existence, but only of the possibility of things, viz. of an intuition corresponding to a concept, and so never of cause and effect, it follows that all purposiveness observed there must be considered merely as formal and never as a natural purpose.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

Woe to the man who comes nigh them!”
— from Folk-Lore and Legends Scotland by Anonymous

In the same club are many who could not tell you who Boswell was any more than some members of the Melbourne Yorick could tell you what Hamlet killed behind the arras.
— from The Awful Australian by Valerie Desmond

The "Roys des harnoys," kings at arms, the heralds, and the minstrels, were commanded not to wear any kind of sharp weapons, but to have the swords without points which belonged to them.
— from The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England Including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Shows, Processions, Pageants, and Pompous Spectacles from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Joseph Strutt

Brinker wanted to improve the Moon, which certainly needed that.
— from Comet's Burial by Raymond Z. Gallun

The motion was carried, notwithstanding the opposition of those who observed, that the nation had very little reason to be pleased with the present posture of affairs; that the French were employed in fortifying and restoring the harbour of Dunkirk, contrary to the faith of the most solemn treaties; that the British merchants had received no redress for the depredations committed by the Spaniards; that the commerce of England daily decreased; that no sort of trade throve but the traffic of Change-alley, where the most abominable frauds were practised; and that every session of parliament opened a new scene of villany and imposition.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II. by T. (Tobias) Smollett

When once more it was quiet save for the rustle of the rain on the leaves, he spoke steadily: "I recollect how my father used to say that a soldier had a low mind who could not trust the chief he had chosen enough to follow him
— from The Vinland Champions by Ottilie A. (Ottilia Adelina) Liljencrantz

—The sum-total of those internal movements which come naturally to men, and which they can consequently set in motion readily and gracefully, is called the soul—men are looked upon as void of soul when they let it be seen that their inward emotions are difficult and painful to them.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Having given a general description of the cigar and its mode of manufacture, we come now to a more particular account of the various kinds known as the best and of world-wide reputation.
— from Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce by E. R. Billings

The modern who came nearest to answering this demand, to showing us the complex thing which we know human nature to be, was Richard Mansfield.
— from American Men of Mind by Burton Egbert Stevenson