And now they recognized that in spite of all former doubts these were in truth those honoured and worthy gentlemen of the Ca' Polo that they claimed to be; and so all paid them the greatest honour and reverence.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

And here, I think, he is pointing a moral, using those heroes whom he sets before us, like types in a tragedy, and the moral is that kings ought never to behave insolently, nor use their power without reserve, nor be carried away by their anger like a spirited horse that runs away for lack of the bit and the driver; and then again he is warning generals not to resent the insolence of kings but to endure their censure with self-control and serenely, so that their whole life may not be filled with remorse.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

Now, I’ll tell you what, young man; I’ll trouble you not to repeat the impertinence you were guilty of, on the morning you went away.’
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

This highest cause, then, we regard as absolutely necessary, because we find it absolutely necessary to rise to it, and do not discover any reason for proceeding beyond it.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

I strapped my pannikin and a small axe about my waist, and thus equipped began to ascend the valley, angry at having been misled by Chowbok, but determined not to return till I was compelled to do so.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

The enemy were trying to get away from Nashville and not to return to it.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Conversely, when a piece of good fortune befalls us, our claims mount higher and higher, as there is nothing to regulate them; it is in this feeling of expansion that the delight of it lies.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer

I found myself apt to go to excess in it, and therefore, after having been for some time without it, on account of illness, I thought it better not to return to it.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

To prevent a misunderstanding which may easily arise, it is in the highest degree needful to remark that, in the first place, we can think these properties of the highest Being only according to analogy.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

In order to form an accurate judgment on both of these points, it will be proper to inquire into the purposes which are to be answered by a senate; and in order to ascertain these, it will be necessary to review the inconveniences which a republic must suffer from the want of such an institution.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

As to the exercise of art there is virtually nothing to report; there is hardly mentioned by name from this period any Roman sculptor or painter except a certain Arellius, whose pictures rapidly went off not on account of their artistic value, but because the cunning reprobate furnished, in his pictures of the goddesses faithful portraits of his mistresses for the time being.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

I am spelled down at the Shehan school—and through all these scenes runs a belief that I am leaving the district never to return to it, a conviction which lends to every experience a peculiar poignancy of appeal.
— from A Son of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland

And first, it is necessary to repeat that I had sent away Friday’s father and the Spaniard (the two whose lives I had rescued from the savages) in a large canoe to the main, as I then thought it, to fetch over the Spaniard’s companions that he left behind him, in order to save them from the like calamity that he had been in, and in order to succour them for the present; and that, if possible, we might together find some way for our deliverance afterwards.
— from The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

For the character of his pastoral style was to be romantic and wholly national, to resemble the idyllic style of Theocritus only in the simplicity of rural expression, but by no means to be popular, in a prosaic sense.
— from History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 2 of 2) by Friedrich Bouterwek

While Gegenbaur was at one with all "pure" morphologists, whether evolutionary or pre-evolutionary, in minimising as far as possible the importance of function in the study of form, he was too cautious and sober a thinker not to recognise the immense part which function really plays.
— from Form and Function: A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

There was no gate and I felt that here the chase must end, and I rejoiced to find myself so near the runner that I heard the quick, soft patter of his shoes on the walk.
— from Rosalind at Red Gate by Meredith Nicholson

He proposes that each month shall be consecrated to one of the great names that represent the intellectual and social progress of humanity.
— from The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various

AUCTIONEER Will Conduct Sales of Both Real and Personal Property on Short Notice Terms: REASONABLE Telephone in Residence FALLS CHURCH, VA.
— from A Virginia Village by Charles Alexander Stewart

Religion does not free the forces of human nature to realise themselves in spontaneous activity, but enchains them to the punctilious service of a nonhuman authority.
— from History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems by Allan Menzies

If [Pg 22] how I worked during all those long hours is to me an all-absorbing subject and edifying spectacle, I am not so vain as not to realize that I must be the only person to find it so.
— from Nights: Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties by Elizabeth Robins Pennell