Shakespeare has very neatly expressed this radical and innate diversity of temperament in those lines in The Merchant of Venice : [Footnote 1: Probl.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer

Not even the religious atmosphere of Senator Dilworthy’s house had been sufficient to instill into Laura that deep Christian principle which had been somehow omitted in her training.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

who had perhaps never experienced the rapturous ardeurs of victory and of destruction?
— from The Antichrist by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

It is not easy to recover an art when once lost.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

When prosecutions were instituted, large numbers emigrated to Roumania and there took the name of “Lipovans.”
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

And Master Tubal, who was the first licenciate at Paris, told me that it was not enough to run apace, but to set forth betimes: so doth not the total welfare of our humanity depend upon perpetual drinking in a ribble rabble, like ducks, but on drinking early in the morning; unde versus, To rise betimes is no good hour, To drink betimes is better sure.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

I have resolved every night, when I am not engaged, to record, as nearly as possible in his own words, what he has related during the day.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Should such landing be effected while the enemy still holds Fort Fisher and the batteries guarding the entrance to the river, then the troops should intrench themselves, and, by co-operating with the navy, effect the reduction and capture of those places.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

What would be the good of a God who knew nothing of anger, revenge, envy, scorn, craft, and violence?—who had perhaps never experienced the rapturous ardeurs of victory and of annihilation?
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The forces of the expedition had been decimated by sickness and death, their supplies were nearly exhausted, their rigging and sails destroyed by wind and weather, the vessels more or less unseaworthy, and East Siberia drained and devastated by famine; only Bering's great powers of perseverance could have collected the vanishing forces for a last endeavor.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

Readers of Darwin's Life will remember his confession that he had lost all taste for music, art, and literature; that he "could not endure to read a line of poetry" and found Shakespeare "so intolerably dull that it nauseated" him; and finally, that his mind seemed "to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of a large collection of facts."
— from Science and Morals and Other Essays by Windle, Bertram Coghill Alan, Sir

The people resented, naturally enough, the ravages and extortions of the Free Companies, and complained that the English nobles were arrogant and overbearing.
— from Life of Edward the Black Prince by Louise Creighton

Four in Midlands (Bedford, Leicester, Northants, Stafford) 2092 3 2 1670 2 17 167 3 32 254 0 33 Corn-growing in England has been for the last hundred years a branch of farming so completely surrendered to the large capitalist, that it is not easy to realise a state of things in which the typical corn-grower was a man with less than 60 acres, and a man who could make a good living from a holding of that size.
— from The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century by R. H. (Richard Henry) Tawney

He had promised the new Elector to return as soon as the Royal Institution was in order.
— from The Royal Institution: Its Founder and First Professors by Bence Jones

The blood now enters the right auricle of the heart and the eustachian valve is so placed that this blood is thrown directly into the left auricle of the heart, from there into the left ventricle, and out into the aorta to find itself in the general circulation of the child.
— from Anatomy and Embalming A Treatise on the Science and Art of Embalming, the Latest and Most Successful Methods of Treatment and the General Anatomy Relating to this Subject by Albert John Nunnamaker

While this might be plainly stated, and the Spanish Government exhorted to act according to their own independent view of the real interests of the country and of the Queen, Lord Aberdeen would humbly propose that the Regent should be explicitly informed by Mr Aston that he must not expect to receive any assistance from your Majesty's Government in promoting a marriage with a Prince of the Netherlands.
— from The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 1, 1837-1843 by Queen of Great Britain Victoria

Earl Sandwich, placed at the head of the Admiralty, was now enabled to realize a system he had long entertained in his thoughts; he beheld us orphans, and he adopted us as his children.
— from An Historical Review of the Royal Marine Corps, from its Original Institution down to the Present Era, 1803 by Gillespie, Alexander, Major

Napoleon was on horseback by break of day on the 21st, to judge for himself; but clouds of light troops prevented his getting near enough to reconnoitre accurately.
— from The Camp-fires of Napoleon Comprising The Most Brilliant Achievemnents of the Emperor and His Marshals by Henry C. (Henry Clay) Watson

It then became necessary to urge their attention to them; but it was evident from the determined commercial opposition and the total want of intercourse between the two Companies that we could not expect to receive any cordial advice or the assurance of the aid of both without devising some expedient to bring the parties together.
— from The Journey to the Polar Sea by John Franklin

But the Blue-Bird does not equal the Redbreast as a songster.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various