At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Yet she was shocked by the suddenness of the news, and retired into complete solitude.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Novelties are rare in cities which represent the most advanced civilization of the modern day.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

Herein we see the wall of partition, which, according to the light of nature (as reason is called by old theologians), entirely separates being from being, broken down, and the non-ego to [Pg 171] a certain extent identified with the ego.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

The products of the Baku naphtha are richer in carbon (therefore in a suitably constructed lamp they ought to give a brighter light), they are of greater specific gravity, and have greater internal friction (and are therefore more suitable for lubricating machinery) than the American products collected at the same temperature.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume I by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

That the acid is derived from the decomposition of chlorides is practically self-evident, but Cahn 94 has added experimental proof which removes all shadow of doubt, through his study of the gastric secretion in animals deprived for many days of salt; the gastric juice in such cases being perfectly neutral in reaction, but normal as regards its content of pepsin.
— from On Digestive Proteolysis Being the Cartwright Lectures for 1894 by R. H. (Russell Henry) Chittenden

Emigrant nobles are returning in crowds, and are better received at the Tuileries than the men of the tenth of August.
— from Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

While the objection draws attention to the important truth that distinctions recognized in the conceptual order are not always real, it certainly does not prove that all accidents are only mentally distinct aspects of substance.
— from Ontology, or the Theory of Being by P. (Peter) Coffey

In the evening I attended a lecture by a learned professor who, as I happened to know, was not as regular in church attendance as he should be.
— from By the Christmas Fire by Samuel McChord Crothers

So that this Act of Submission and Faith to the Laws of the Church, and not any real inward Change, is that which justifieth him.
— 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

Although our pleasant intercourse was never again renewed, I continued through the years of the war to hear accounts of Mrs. Newsome's devotion to the Confederate soldiers.
— from Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War by Fannie A. Beers

122 .—Moral disapproval and approval have not always remained inseparably connected with the feelings of any special society, p.
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck