But he them spying, gan to turne aside, 300 For feare as seemd, or for some feigned losse; More greedy they of newes, fast towards him do crosse.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

II): “Even the exhortations of inspired teachers have not feared to appeal to common repute, Philip, iv.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

We must not forget that our knowledge can attain only to ideas of things.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Thus, for instance, we know from the preceding table and its first number what we must begin from in practical inquiries; namely, from the maxims which every one founds on his own inclinations; the precepts which hold for a species of rational beings so far as they agree in certain inclinations; and finally the law which holds for all without regard to their inclinations, etc.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

Now from these two necessary properties we have given the fact may be explained that every individual, though vanishing altogether and diminished to nothing in the boundless world, yet makes itself the centre of the world, has regard for its own existence and well-being before
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

For as a person puts out a fire by bringing no fuel to it, so with respect to anger, he that does not in the beginning fan it, and stir up its rage in himself, keeps it off and destroys it.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

Quaes., v. 37; Plutarch, On Exile, c. 4.]— he whose imagination was fuller and wider, embraced the whole world for his country, and extended his society and friendship to all mankind; not as we do, who look no further than our feet.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Under the headline News From Tokyo, the following items: TOSHIBA TO MARKET INEXPENSIVE PORTABLE
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

VI Now for the first time I my Muse Lead into good society, Her steppe-like beauties I peruse With jealous fear, anxiety.
— from Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

Consider ( to go no further ) these strong Stone-edifices, and what they hold!
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

" "I care nothing for that; nor will you if you love me as you have often sworn you do."
— from By Right of Sword by Arthur W. Marchmont

These masters, vexed at the refusal, unanimously determined to go to the ancient ruins, and search under ground, with a view of arrogating the merit necessary for the accomplishment of their desires.
— from The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge by William Morgan

However unwillingly, I have felt bound to consider the possibility that Mr. Gladstone's labours in this matter may have carried him no further than Josephus and the worthy, but somewhat antique, episcopal and other authorities to whom he refers; that even his reading of Josephus may have been of the most cursory nature, directed not to the understanding of his author, but to the discovery of useful controversial matter; and that, in view of the not inconsiderable misrepresentation of my statements to which I have drawn attention, it might be that Mr. Gladstone's exposition of the evidence of Josephus was not more trustworthy.
— from Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions by Thomas Henry Huxley

This river, the main drain of the Ghauts and Sub-Ghauts, derives its name from the increased volume of the waters during night: evaporation by day causes the absorption of about a hundred yards.
— from First Footsteps in East Africa by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

The one thing that did not favor the deception was the air; its character could not be mistaken.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

Do not forget that this virtue is one of the most beautiful ornaments of your sex, and that when woman is deprived of it she is like a faded flower, without eclat or perfume.
— from Serious Hours of a Young Lady by Charles Sainte-Foi

Not a soul ever went near the viller but tradesmen, and they never got no further than the back door.
— from The Crimson Cryptogram: A Detective Story by Fergus Hume

Here the steps were planted with cabbages, and there covered with smooth red soil, and sown with seed that had not yet appeared above the surface; here again were rows of peas whose pods were just forming, and yonder were steps one above the other, on which tall rye waved with every breath of wind; beyond were terraces of nursery fruit trees, and farther on the mountain was ribbed with brown steps that looked as if they must lead to some giant fortress held {334} by men twice the size of puny mortals.
— from Galicia, the Switzerland of Spain by Annette M. B. Meakin

no, that's not from the Bible, after all, is it?
— from The Unknown Quantity: A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tales by Henry Van Dyke

In looking around the room, I saw a small box, like a candle-box, marked "Howell Cobb," and, on inquiring of a negro, found that we were at the plantation of General Howell Cobb, of Georgia, one of the leading rebels of the South, then a general in the Southern army, and who had been Secretary of the United States Treasury in Mr. Buchanan's time.
— from Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Volume II., Part 4 by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman