" "The fact is, you would wish me to be a little more like him, Rosy," said Lydgate, in a sort of resigned murmur, with a smile which was not exactly tender, and certainly not merry.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

If we compare all these circumstances, we shall not doubt, that sympathy is the chief source of moral distinctions; especially when we reflect, that no objection can be raised against this hypothesis in one case, which will not extend to all cases.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

¡Ya veis que 10 no era tan afrancesado como yo!
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

The alternative is therefore necessary: Either the absolute cannot be known or conceived at all, or our author is wrong in subjecting thought to the conditions of plurality and difference."
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

have acquired this character through nothing else than a certain wisdom.
— from Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato

Pepe Rey estaba un si es no es turbado a causa del giro que diera su tía a una vana disputa festiva en la que tomó parte tan sólo por acalorar un poco la conversación.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

The singularity of my adventure made me determine to conceal it from every one, since I could not expect that a circumstance so strange should gain credit.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

Yet for him their activities are direct stimuli; they are part of his natural environment; they are carried on in physical terms that appeal to his eye, ear, and touch.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

And so ever, when any one thing is made up of many, all of which do not exist together, all collectively would please more than they do severally, could all be perceived collectively.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

“It is not exactly that and chic is a French word.
— from Castellinaria, and Other Sicilian Diversions by Henry Festing Jones

Though it is hard to believe that any such expressions, when used for purposes of ordinary life, attain at all near enough to any conventional standard to be worth discussion; yet in the special case of a jury, acting under the direct influence of a judge, it seems quite possible that their deliberate assertion that they are ‘fully convinced’ may reach somewhat more nearly to a tolerably fixed standard than ordinary outsiders would at first think likely.
— from The Logic of Chance, 3rd edition An Essay on the Foundations and Province of the Theory of Probability, With Especial Reference to Its Logical Bearings and Its Application to Moral and Social Science and to Statistics by John Venn

The whole period of our national existence has been nothing else than a continued series of prosperity.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 3 (of 16) by United States. Congress

The study of old houses grows in interest with each additional discovery of good material, such as can be found in the old New England towns and cities, more especially those along the seacoast.
— from Historic Homes of New England by Mary Harrod Northend

During the flight Dave had chanced to remark that Don Everts had formerly piloted an air mail plane and had a flying acquaintance with nearly every town and city in the east.
— from Doris Force at Locked Gates; Or, Saving a Mysterious Fortune by Julia K. Duncan

If the government of the United States does not possess sovereign power as to its declared purposes and trusts, because its power does not extend to all cases, neither would the several states possess sovereign power in any case; for their powers do not extend to every case.
— from The Life of George Washington: A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Editions by John Marshall

Professor Challis, having the command of the great Northumberland equatorial telescope at Cambridge, was induced to undertake the work, and on the 29th July, 1846, he began his labours.
— from The Story of the Heavens by Robert S. (Robert Stawell) Ball

When 'Lizebeth, who was standing in the kitchen door, saw the procession come and noticed that the mother held the little stranger so tenderly by his hand, as though he were her own small Ritz, then 'Lizebeth at once shut the kitchen door, and grumbled: "There is something wrong about this!" Soon after, the whole family sat around the noonday table, and if Sally could not eat yesterday from sorrow, today she could not swallow anything from pure joy, not even the apple cake, which surprised Ritz very much.
— from Erick and Sally by Johanna Spyri

H. Stockton, U. S. N., entitled "The Arctic Cruise of the Thetis During the Summer and Autumn of 1889," which was illustrated by lantern slides.
— from The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. II., No. 1, April, 1890 by Various