A strict, though fruitless, inquiry was allowed: but the Huns were obliged to swear, that they did not detain any prisoners belonging to the city, before they could recover two surviving countrymen, whom the Azimuntines had reserved as pledges for the safety of their lost companions.
— 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

They suggest things to do and not do, and provide means of execution.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

30 Com pensive Nun, devout and pure, Sober, stedfast, and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing with majestick train, And sable stole of Cipres Lawn, Over thy decent shoulders drawn.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

That I shall not discuss, and perhaps cannot account for; but certainly they are a proof of the converse of spirits, and a secret communication between those embodied and those unembodied, and such a proof as can never be withstood; of which I shall have occasion to give some remarkable instances in the remainder of my solitary residence in this dismal place.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Next day Ariadne presented me to the Russian family as: "The son of a distinguished professor whose estate is next to ours.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

nor did any person either rejoice at the news of his death, or speedily forget it.
— from The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus

O Oak , felled by blows of little axe, 269 , 44; when it falls, 445 , 14 Oak-tree , when it falls and when it is planted, 545 , 45 Oarsmen and steersman, 567 , 27 Oath , powerless in domain of reason, 324 , 26; that does not bind, 305 , 35 Oaths , but straws, 110 , 29; oracles, 157 , 19; straw to passion, 455 , 39 Obedience , blind, 55 , 9; for those who can't rule, 243 , 7; imperative, 541 , 27; must be free, 204 , 12; not sacrifice, 45 , 48; Shelley on, 354 , 46; source of all virtues, 116 , 14; that is easy, 207 , 20; the key to freedom, 96 , 22; the virtue in, 364 , 8; to heaven, how learned, 449 , 1; true, 500 , 28; true, virtue of, 306 , 44; two kinds of, 490 , 13; value of, 10 , 42; virtue of Christianity, 403 , 34; when to be enforced, 171 , 33 Obeisance , time for, 207 , 11 Obeyed , how to be cheerfully, 176 , 32 Obeying and governing, 203 , 15 Obeys , who, and who commands, 151 , 49 Object ,and expression, 527 , 26; greatest in universe, and a greater, 432 , 26 Objects , all, windows into the infinite, 10 , 9 Obligation , haste in discharging, 490 , 25; limit to, 505 , 7 Oblivion , the condition of memory, 176 , 16; the cormorant, 421 , 35 Obscure , the, defined, 445 , 23 Obscurity , cause of, 209 , 45; cause of, in writer, 205 , 2; contentment with, commended, 236 , 1; in an author, relative, 149 , 8; patience of, a duty, 343 , 13 Obsequiousness , advantage of, 323 , 32 Observation , Burns on lack of, 464 , 42; much, effect of, 285 , 23; to precede judgment, 27 , 47; vigilant, effect of, 92 , 31; want of, 109 , 49; 143 , 23; width of, commended, 242 , 30 Observed of all observers, 322 , 32 Observer , a fine, characteristic of, 541 , 4; an acute, 144 , 49; great, a, 7 , 3 Obsolete to the pot, 169 , 42 Obstacles , glory in overcoming, 443 , 20; also stepping-stones, 418 , 39 Obstinacy , 1 , 12; slavery, 15 , 54 Obvious , the, ignorance of, 536 , 45 Occasions , great, source of, 133 , 7 Occupation , absence of, 2 , 13; blessing of, 307 , 27; constant, moral effect of, 46 , 57; necessity, duty, and pleasure, 291 , 7; sharpening effect of, 90 , 3; want of, a plague, 461 , 16 Occupations , mechanical, 441 , 42 Ocean , beating of, 445 , 24 Offence , an, which we pardon, 330 , 34; and punishment, disproportionate effect of, 547 , 31; every, at first, 93 , 6; giving and appeasing, 201 , 28; inclination to give, 124 , 16; none free from, 304 , 14; not soon forgotten, 50 , 51; pardon of, bringing under obligation, 446 , 45; rising above, 543 , 6; taking, 21 , 27 Offences , at my beck, 467 , 22 Offender , and offended, as regards memory of offence, 42 , 19; never forgives, 146 , 4; the, unforgiving, 42 , 18-32 Offers , extravagant, denials, 325 , 27 Office , a kind, natural to one, 331 , 47; effect of, on character, 259 , 5; high, slavery of, 554 , 1; just pride of, 212 , 2; testing power of, 17 , 32; unfitness for, 179 , 19; without pay, a temptation, 14 , 10 Official , duty of, 170 , 3 Officious , the, mischievous, 161 , 35 Offspring , unworthy, boast of, 509 , 12 Old , and new, discretion in regard to, 28 , 16; and new, the conflict of, characterised, 421 , 24; few know how to be, 105 , 17; harness, better die in, 29 , 21; how first appreciated, 183 , 13; I love everything that's, 167 , 42; idolatry of the, 523 , 13; maid's tongues, 64 , 5; man, an, just beginning to live, 365 , 39; man in a house, 15 , 58; man, one misery of, an, 333 , 29; man, only old despicable, 299 , 22; man, sayings of, 118 , 35; men, and their good advice, 239 , 33; men, beauty of, 430 , 14; men, errors of, 425 , 29; men, failing of, 198 , 18; oak, twist out of, 209 , 3; people, borne with, 265 , 32; people, talk of, 238 , 39; people, who forget their age, 234 , 30; superseded by new, 445 , 30; the, death of, 445 , 29; the, extolled, 513 , 38; the, once new, 328 , 27; the, passed away, 424 , 15; to know how to grow, 493 , 32; what never grows, 535 , 20 Old age , a burden, 132 , 46; a peaceful, how to {pg 627} attain, 177 , 33; a regret, 568 , 42; a time of folly, 83 , 58; a weakness of, 199 , 51, 52; a worn out, cause of, 245 , 43; advance of, 74 , 21; an anxiety of, 466 , 1; and faults of youth, 527 , 7; and its wrinkles, 228 , 16; and memory, 225 , 38; approach of, unfelt, 310 , 2; benefit of knowledge to, 220 , 31; beyond astonishment, 188 , 34; chief characteristic of, 69 , 24; desire of, 147 , 42; discomforts of, 285 , 50; folly and jesting unseemly in, 161 , 31;
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

I hope you will not do as the Jew did; but in the meanwhile allow me to say that if you do not draw a profit from this treasure, you do not know what it really is.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

He soon appeared before the city with a corps of ten thousand troops, and finding it a fit occasion, as he had secretly intended from the beginning, to revive an antiquated claim, on the pretext that his ancestors had suffered the place to be dismembered from his territory,(1) he took possession of it in his own name, disarmed, and punished the inhabitants, and reannexed the city to his domains.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Now, it may have been either that the Finance Office failed to notify the Passport Office because it did not have date and place of birth information, or that it did notify the Passport Office, and because there was no date and place of birth information, the Passport Office did not make a card.
— from Warren Commission (05 of 26): Hearings Vol. V (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

Miss Mardiganian’s names, dates and places, do not correspond exactly with similar references to these places made by Ambassador Morgenthau, Lord Bryce and others, but we must take into consideration that she is only a girl of seventeen, that she has lived through one of the most tragic periods of history in that section of the world which has suffered most from the war, that she is not a historian, that her interpreter in giving this story to the American public has not attempted to write a history.
— from Ravished Armenia The Story of Aurora Mardiganian, the Christian Girl Who Lived Through the Great Massacres by Aurora Mardiganian

The whole of Tuscany and Umbria, their cities, plains, rivers and mountain summits, are unrolled; and the friar concludes with a sentence which well embodies the feeling we have in gazing over an illimitable landscape: Io so bene che quanto t'ho mostrato, La vista nol discerna apertamente, Per lo spazio ch'è lungo dov'io
— from Renaissance in Italy, Volume 4 (of 7) Italian Literature, Part 1 by John Addington Symonds

5. I may be permitted to add, that if children do not discover any propensity to these studies, we should neither neglect nor despise them; provided their dispositions and conduct be good and regular in other matters.
— from Fenelon's Treatise on the Education of Daughters Translated from the French, and Adapted to English Readers by François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon

Therefore, if the borrower did not derive any profit from the loan, the sum lent had in fact been sterile, and obviously the just price of the loan was the return of the amount lent; if, on the contrary, the borrower had made a profit from it, it was the reward of his labour, and not the fruit of the loan itself.
— from An Essay on Mediæval Economic Teaching by George Augustine Thomas O'Brien

He makes no distinction among pleasures and pains excepting what strictly concerns their value as such—intensity, duration, certainty, and nearness.
— from Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Alexander Bain

Is it not dreadful about papa?”
— from The Doings of Raffles Haw by Arthur Conan Doyle

The nobles demanded a poll tax on every man, woman, boy, and girl in the land; and when one of their collectors would exact it from Wat Tyler, at his place in Dartford, and (disbelieving his word concerning the age of his young daughter) vilely insulted the maiden, he arose and slew the wretch with his hammer.
— from Parkhurst Boys, and Other Stories of School Life by Talbot Baines Reed

He does not argue from the contingency of concrete causal laws to the contingency of the universal principle, but shows, as Kant himself recognises, [258] that the principle is neither self-evident nor demonstrable a priori .
— from A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' by Norman Kemp Smith