The letter pointed out to him that 112 friendship and alliance had subsisted between Philip and Artaxerxes; 284 and that when Arses, son of Artaxerxes, ascended the throne, Philip was the first to practise injustice towards him, though he had suffered no injury from the Persians.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

dear one, now I feel thy power, 'Tis sweet to rest when toil is o'er, But
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

We overcome transference by proving to the patient that his feelings do not originate in the present situation, and are not intended for the person of the physician, but merely repeat what happened to him at some former time.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

When I lighted my candles, he fell into meek transports with the room that was revealed to him; and when I heated the coffee in an unassuming block-tin vessel in which Mrs. Crupp delighted to prepare it (chiefly, I believe, because it was not intended for the purpose, being a shaving-pot, and because there was a patent invention of great price mouldering away in the pantry), he professed so much emotion, that I could joyfully have scalded him.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

The Nation is for the present, figuratively speaking, naked!
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

This attitude of mind generates dislike of change, and the resulting aversion to novelty is fatal to progress.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

There is a village in the department of the Var, six leagues from Toulon, called Bormes, not improbably from these people.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

The possibility of these principles, however, will necessarily be considered here, inasmuch as they are synthetical judgements a priori, not indeed for the purpose of proving their accuracy and apodeictic certainty, which is unnecessary, but merely to render conceivable and deduce the possibility of such evident a priori cognitions.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

The excursionists will have an opportunity to look over this, the “magnificent city of palaces,” and visit the birthplace of Columbus, twelve miles off, over a beautiful road built by Napoleon I. From this point, excursions may be made to Milan, Lakes Como and Maggiore, or to Milan, Verona (famous for its extraordinary fortifications), Padua, and Venice.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

But I lay it to the unsparing warfare kept up upon the weeds, which thus prevented their running away with the nourishment intended for the plants, and kept the ground constantly stirred up and thoroughly pulverized.
— from Ten Acres Enough A practical experience, showing how a very small farm may be made to keep a very large family by Edmund Morris

This was the natural course of the disease; but it really seems as if it were their criticism that was to blame for the rest: not, indeed, for the performance of this writer or that, for criticism can never affect the actual doing of a thing; but for the esteem in which this writer or that is held through the perpetuation of false ideals.
— from Criticism and Fiction by William Dean Howells

The solemn lady, however, was resolved to be lively, and not finding any mirth that she could justly claim, she prepared to invade the bottle of some other person, which, she said, would do no injury; for the person whom she should despoil might take her bottle in exchange, since it was undoubtedly [27] there, though at that moment she could not find it.
— from Adventures in the Moon, and Other Worlds by Russell, John Russell, Earl

She subscribed £20 towards a new instrument for the parish church, and was so overcome when she first heard it that she had to be carried out by the pew-opener.
— from Charles Dickens and Music by James T. (James Thomas) Lightwood

Now is fulfilled the promise of the Psalmist: 'The players on instruments shall be there.'"
— from Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks by William Elliot Griffis

Certainly not; and my object in making this appeal to the nation, and supplying it with calculations from the most experienced individuals and naturalists, is for the purpose of rousing it up to one universal warfare against these midnight marauders and common enemies of mankind, insomuch as they devour the food, to the starvation of our fellow-creatures."
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 by Various

He does not like the way in which he has been treated; thinks there is a disposition on the part of those in authority to shelve him, and that his assignment to Nashville is for the purpose of letting him down easily.
— from The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer by John Beatty

But these things had no interest for the People's Friend.
— from The Historical Nights' Entertainment: Second Series by Rafael Sabatini