this process seems to be continued longer with their female than their mail children, and neither appear to suffer any pain from the operation.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

This author himself had never attained to such a portion of wisdom, if he had not applied himself to a searching out the frailties and infirmities of human nature; as, if you believe not me, may appear from his own words in his first chapter, I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly ; where it is worthy to be observed that as to the order of words, Folly for its advantage is put in the last place.
— from In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts by Desiderius Erasmus

At the same time, he made these conceptions valid of phenomena, because he did not allow to sensibility a peculiar mode of intuition, but sought all, even the empirical representation of objects, in the understanding, and left to sense naught but the despicable task of confusing and disarranging the representations of the former.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Now among them that were yet of a more excellent nature, as the stars and planets, though by their nature far distant one from another, yet even among them began some mutual correspondency and unity.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

For the rest, the only thing to eat—though it didn't look eatable in the least—I saw in their possession was a few lumps of some stuff like half-cooked dough, of a dirty lavender colour, they kept wrapped in leaves, and now and then swallowed a piece of, but so small that it seemed done more for the looks of the thing than for any serious purpose of sustenance.
— from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

He could not abide to see a pig's head gaping: I thought your grace would find him a Jew. THIRD OFFICER.
— from The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

These men also got in a great number together, and stood before the Romans, and besought the seditious, with groans and tears in their eyes, in the first place to receive the Romans entirely into the city, and save that their own place of residence again; but that, if they would not agree to such a proposal, they would at least depart out of the temple, and save the holy house for their own use; for that the Romans would not venture to set the sanctuary on fire but under the most pressing necessity.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

At all events, all but simultaneously with the Order of the Protector and his Council, of Sept. 5, 1655, concentrating the whole newspaper press in the hands of Needham and Thurloe (see ante pp.
— from The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 Narrated in Connexion with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of His Time by David Masson

Should Nicholson agree to such a pact, would he keep it?
— from The Speculations of John Steele by Robert Barr

I need not ask the sympathy and prayers for the members of the Board and other friends, for I feel assured that I shall have them.
— from Daughters of the Cross: or Woman's Mission by Daniel C. (Daniel Clarke) Eddy

In the morning, in order to work off the beginnings of a headache, I went to Rotterdam and walked until noon about the streets and places, recalling my former visit, which came very vividly before me as I gazed upon the statue of Erasmus, and thought upon his life here.
— from Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 2 by Andrew Dickson White

So Argillan rushed forth, sparkled his eyes, His front high lifted was, no fear therein, Lightly he leaps and skips, it seems he flies, He left no sign in dust imprinted thin, And coming near his foes, he sternly cries, As one that forced not all their strength a pin, "You outcasts of the world, you men of naught
— from Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso

Having sown this good seed the Admiral waited for a night, and then sent a party of men ashore, “well prepared with arms and adapted for such an affair,” to have some conversation with the people.
— from Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Complete by Filson Young

As the rainbow had existed in nature before, but was now appointed to serve a peculiar purpose, so in the record of creation sun, moon and stars, which existed before, were appointed as visible lights for the earth,—and that for the reason that the earth was no longer self-luminous, and the light of the sun struggling through the earth's encompassing clouds was not sufficient for the higher forms of life which were to come.
— from Systematic Theology (Volume 2 of 3) by Augustus Hopkins Strong

"I will stay the night here," said Grettir, "and to-morrow we will go together to the Ness, and take spade and pick and a rope, and I will see what can be found."
— from Grettir the Outlaw: A Story of Iceland by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould