Their weaknesses—though Tod does not enumerate them in detail—are obvious from a study of their history—their instability of character, their liability to sudden outbreaks of passion, their tendency to yield to panic on the battlefield, their inability, as a result of their tribal system, to form a permanent combination against a public enemy, their occasional faithlessness to their chiefs and allies, their excessive use of opium.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

para for, toward; to ( not of place ); something for, enough for; —— que in order that, that, to, so as to; —— eso está that's what ... is for; no es—— tanto it doesn't amount to so much as all that; acá—— entre los dos just between you and me.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

What is the cause that Europe groans at present under the heavy load of a cruel and expensive war, but the tyrannical custom of a certain nation, and the scrupulous nicety of a silly queen in not exercising this indispensable duty, whereby the kingdom might have had an heir, and a controverted succession might have been avoided.
— from The History of John Bull by John Arbuthnot

In our attempt to appeal to reason only, we have reduced our precepts to words, we have not embodied them in deed.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The coffee drink had strong competition from the heady wines, the liquors, and imported teas, and consequently it did not attain the vogue among the colonial New Englanders that it did among Londoners of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

It means traversing with new clamorous questions, and at the same time with new eyes, the immense, distant, and completely unexplored land of morality—of a morality which has actually existed and been actually lived!
— from The Genealogy of Morals The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

yes, childish prattle, repetitions, laughter at nothing, nonsense, everything that is deepest and most sublime in the world!
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

I once purpos'd answering the abbé, and actually began the answer; but, on consideration that my writings contained a description of experiments which anyone might repeat and verify, and if not to be verifi'd, could not be defended; or of observations offer'd as conjectures, and not delivered dogmatically, therefore not laying me under any obligation to defend them; and reflecting that a dispute between two persons, writing in different languages, might be lengthened greatly by mistranslations, and thence misconceptions of one another's meaning, much of one of the abbé's letters being founded on an error in the translation, I concluded to let my papers shift for themselves, believing it was better to spend what time I could spare from public business in making new experiments, than in disputing about those already made.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

[Pg 28] and nowhere else throughout its distribution, that therefore we may suggest that there is some difference in the condition of life at Digne which makes the continuance of Honoratii there possible and beneficial.
— from Problems of Genetics by William Bateson

But the true man will change to nobility even the instincts derived from strains of inferior moral development in his race—as the oyster makes, they say, of the sand-grain a pearl.
— from Warlock o' Glenwarlock: A Homely Romance by George MacDonald

You may believe that he embellished the thoughts with more noble expressions than I do.
— from The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates by Xenophon

There was no engaging them in dialectic, an Athenian art which they frankly despised.
— from On The Art of Reading by Arthur Quiller-Couch

At the northern limit of the N. E. trades, it does not, ordinarily, approach the earth sufficiently near for decided reciprocal action.
— from The Philosophy of the Weather. And a Guide to Its Changes by T. B. (Thomas Belden) Butler

There is no end to its disputes, for it has nothing but a fallible vote as authority for its oracles, and these appeal only to fallible interpreters.
— from The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Editions by Oliver Wendell Holmes

But it still looked frail and aërial enough, swaying high above the racing stream that would quickly have swept a stumbling traveler through rock-walled hills to the Marañón and the Amazon, and the few arrieros who follow this route have no easy task in driving their donkeys across it.
— from Vagabonding down the Andes Being the Narrative of a Journey, Chiefly Afoot, from Panama to Buenos Aires by Harry Alverson Franck

But though staggered by this double fire on front and flank, the janizaries were not stayed in their career, nor even thrown into disarray.
— from History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by William Hickling Prescott