According to what M. Dastier had told me of Corsica, I could not expect to find there the most simple conveniences of life, except such as I should take with me; linen, clothes, plate, kitchen furniture, and books, all were to be conveyed thither.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Jesuits, finding their arguments had not the desired effect, that torments could not shake his constancy, nor even the fear of the cruel sentence he had reason to expect would be pronounced and executed on him, after severe menaces, left him.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

But the proprietor appeared already to have relinquished, as hopeless, the effort to perpetuate on this side of the Atlantic, in a hard soil and amid the close struggle for subsistence, the native English taste for ornamental gardening.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

He was a copious letter-writer and kept full journals of his various travels; but he never elaborated them for publication.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

The world around us opens before our view so magnificent a spectacle of order, variety, beauty, and conformity to ends, that whether we pursue our observations into the infinity of space in the one direction, or into its illimitable divisions in the other, whether we regard the world in its greatest or its least manifestations—even after we have attained to the highest summit of knowledge which our weak minds can reach, we find that language in the presence of wonders so inconceivable has lost its force, and number its power to reckon, nay, even thought fails to conceive adequately, and our conception of the whole dissolves into an astonishment without power of expression—all the more eloquent that it is dumb.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

The two principal speeches were by B. B. Howard, the post-master and a Breckinridge Democrat at the November election the fall before, and John A. Rawlins, an elector on the Douglas ticket.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Bigod and Bohun could not enforce the forest laws with such severity as this dealer in cotton and indigo.”
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

As all things were one nothing, dull and weake, Vntill this raw disordered heape did breake, And severall desires led parts away, 40 Water declin'd with earth, the ayre did stay, Fire rose, and each from other but unty'd, Themselves unprison'd were and purify'd: [pg 419] So was love, first in vast confusion hid, An unripe willingnesse which nothing did, 45 A thirst, an Appetite which had no ease, That found a want, but knew not what would please.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

Are we ashamed to follow, because others are gone before, and not ashamed not even to follow?"
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

The loyalist faction had spread the report that Jeffreys was merely Sir William's deputy, that he could not exercise the full powers of Governor, and would retire upon his return.
— from Give Me Liberty: The Struggle for Self-Government in Virginia by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker

To describe an Indian woman is no easy task for one who lives among them, for every peculiarity becomes so familiar, and so interwoven with our common everyday experience, that we forget how strange and unlike white women she appeared to us at first.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 38, No. 01, January, 1884 by Various

Her mother, as Nellie knew would be the case, had not yet returned from her card-party, nor would she be likely to do so for a full hour yet, and her absence, in relation to the visitor she now expected, took for itself a totally different aspect.
— from Peter by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

But on the other hand it is important that we should now endeavour to form a clear idea of those larger divisions of industrial wage-labour with which a protective code has to deal, in order that we may be sure of our ground in proceeding with our investigations.
— from The Theory and Policy of Labour Protection by A. (Albert) Schäffle

I have told you already that, according to their ideas, as a "fatal" man he was bound to do something extraordinary, though perhaps they had not expected that from him.
— from Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

They assured her that Jack had reached the Union lines, and then she had set out northward, expecting to find him at home or in communication with his family.
— from The Iron Game A Tale of the War by Henry F. (Henry Francis) Keenan

Had her disorder been an apoplexy, she must infallibly have died, for as no person, not even the faculty, can enter, without an order from the municipal Divan, half a day elapsed before this order could be procured.
— from A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners by Charlotte Biggs

How it was to be carried on any further, is not easy to foresee, had not the difficulty been solved by the entrance of Frederick Travers, come to communicate the news of his appointment.
— from The O'Donoghue: Tale of Ireland Fifty Years Ago by Charles James Lever

No easy task; for, look at them from what point we will, these years must be allowed to cover an anxious and critical time in modern English history; but, above all, in the history of the working classes.
— from Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography by Charles Kingsley