His feelings, like our own, were deeply interested; and he proposed that we should each provide something from our own small stores to satisfy the pressing wants of the distressed family; while he promised to bring his cutter the next morning, and take us through the beaver-meadow, and to the edge of the great swamp, which would shorten four miles, at least, of our long and hazardous journey.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

They are, as one sees plainly, accidents of the body; accidents which do not of necessity make any part of its nature; which cannot be considered as independent substances, but still to each of which sensation gives the peculiar character under which it appears to us.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

I dared not make any further remark, but during the mass I was indeed surprised, for I saw that he did not understand what he was doing.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

This is a stern Of that victorious stock; and let us fear The native mightiness and fate of him.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

There are also other animals which each people, independently of others, worship; as the Saïtæ and Thebaïtæ, a sheep; the Latopolitæ, the latus, a fish inhabiting the Nile; the people of Lycopolis, a wolf; those of Hermopolis, 870 the cynocephalus; those of Babylon, 871 near Memphis, a cephus, which has the countenance of a satyr, and in other respects is between a dog and a bear; it is bred in Ethiopia.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

However, he did not succeed in pacifying them, but they condemned him by a public vote to be general no more, and to pay a fine which is stated at the lowest estimate to have been fifteen talents, and at the highest fifty.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

An opinion contrary to that of another does not necessarily make a fool of the person who entertains it.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Sophocles held civic office in his own city; the humourists, essayists, and novelists of modern America seem to desire nothing better than to become the diplomatic representatives of their country; and Charles Lamb’s friend, Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, the subject of this brief memoir, though of an extremely artistic temperament, followed many masters other than art, being not merely a poet and a painter, an art-critic, an antiquarian, and a writer of prose, an amateur of beautiful things, and a dilettante of things delightful, but also a forger of no mean or ordinary capabilities, and as a subtle and secret poisoner almost without rival in this or any age.
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde

I hope they will not meet at all.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Mr. Cleves gained much applause for his well-considered wish that all that has been written in the world, all books and libraries, could be destroyed, so as to give a chance to the new men and the fresh ideas of the new era.”
— from That Fortune by Charles Dudley Warner

No man can read his sane, wholesome truths about Nature, men, and literature, without growing better and more satisfied with life, and more resigned to the ways of the Powers that be.
— from Rambles with John Burroughs by R. J. H. (Robert John Henderson) De Loach

The final result was, a determination to go to the man on the next morning, and pay him the balance due him on the market price of his corn.
— from Finger Posts on the Way of Life by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

By joining the cells in multiple arc r is decreased, but E and x remain the same, and therefore C is not materially altered, as x is very great compared to r .
— from Torpedoes and Torpedo Warfare Containing a Complete and Concise Account of the Rise and Progress of Submarine Warfare by Charles William Sleeman

The former writer states the nonconformist ministers at this time in twenty-four counties to have been 754; of course the whole number was much greater.
— from Constitutional History of England, Henry VII to George II. Volume 1 of 3 by Henry Hallam

There is no reason why I should not marry, and if I die she will get my small amount of money, and a pension."
— from To Love by Margaret Peterson

The anxiety I had felt on account of the traders delay, was not much alleviated by their arrival.
— from Travels Through the Interior Parts of North America, in the Years 1766, 1767 and 1768 by Jonathan Carver

I intend to show that he regarded motive, not merely as the occasion or condition of volition, but as that which produces it.
— from An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will by Albert Taylor Bledsoe

He had his moments when he could no more avoid feeling and acting and declaring himself her lover than he could avoid later regretting them, and, for this inability, he had been exiled.
— from Destiny by Charles Neville Buck

Here we meet, for the first time in the middle ages, the principles of marine and commercial law, rising above the then rather limited views of the Roman law on those subjects, which in the German law books are not mentioned at all.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 by Various