And yet, probably, their first impressions, the illusions and mirages of their fancy, created a greater intellectual activity and made a nearer approach to the truth than any patient investigation of isolated facts, for which the time had not yet come, could have accomplished.
— from Timaeus by Plato

They carried out certain procedures that, on the Nautilus , you could call "clearing the decks for action."
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

It makes at least this difference that if anyone calls it impossible you can contradict him, if anyone calls it actual you can contradict HIM, and if anyone calls it necessary you can contradict him too.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

Heroes of the Army in America Charles Morris Lippincott Heroes of Discovery in America Charles Morris Lippincott Heroes of the Navy in America Charles Morris Lippincott Heroes of Progress in America Charles Morris Lippincott Heroes of the United States Navy Hartwell Jones Henry Altemus Co. Hero Tales from American History Lodge and Roosevelt History of New York City Chas.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

DEATH OF WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT New York City .—Came
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

For the purpose of arousing public interest in the approaching New York Constitutional Convention, an equal rights meeting was held at Albany, in Tweddle Hall, November 21.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

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— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

‘No!’ ‘Your cruel commands are implicitly to be obeyed; though I am the most unfortunate fellow in the world, I believe, to have been insensible to all other women, and to have fallen prostrate at last under the foot of the most beautiful, and the most engaging, and the most imperious.
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

Is not your cruelty contented, or have I yet more to suffer?
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

Some two thousand five hundred years ago the Erewhonians were still uncivilised, and lived by hunting, fishing, a rude system of agriculture, and plundering such few other nations as they had not yet completely conquered.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS ARTIST TO FACE PAGE Old Flags R. T. Pritchett Frontispiece Her Majesty the Queen going to Scotland " 6 The Royal Yacht 'Victoria and Albert,' 1843 " 8 'Pearl,' 'Falcon,' and 'Waterwitch' " 12 'Mystery' winning the Cup presented by R.Y.S. to R.T.Y.C. " 14 'Corsair,' R.Y.S., winning the Queen's Cup at Cowes, 1892 " 16 Yacht Club Burgees Club Card 48 'Irex' From a photograph by Adamson 58 'Yarana' " 64 'Arrow,' Royal Cinque Ports Yacht Club, 1876 R. T. Pritchett 68 'Reverie' From a photograph 70 (p. viii) Northern Yacht Club cruising off Garroch Head, 1825 From a painting by Hutcheson 76 Royal Northern Yacht Club, Rothesay From a photograph by Secretary 78 The Start for Ardrishaig Cup From a photograph by Adamson 84 'Marjorie' " 86 'May' " 88 'Thistle' " 90 'Lenore' " 92 'Verve' " 94 Yacht Club Flags 104 'Erycina' From a photograph by Adamson 106 Royal Irish Yacht Club Cup, Kingstown, 1873 From a picture by Admiral Beechy 108 Mermaids of Dublin Bay Sailing Club 146 Start of 25-Tonners, R.T.Y.C., from Greenwich, 1848 R. T. Pritchett 170 'Decima' From a photograph by Symonds 176 'Gimcrack' R. T. Pritchett 240 Model Room of New York Yacht Club From a photograph sent by Secretary N.Y.Y.C.
— from Yachting, Vol. 2 by Dufferin and Ava, Frederick Temple Blackwood, Marquis of

[Pg 17] "I am very sorry," replied Andrea, without the slightest embarrassment, "that I am unable to answer the question just now; you can continue, however, and later on I will take an opportunity to give you information about the matter."
— from The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume I by Jules Lermina

When Spring comes back to England And dons her robe of green, There's many a nation garlanded But England is the Queen; She's Queen, she's Queen of all the world Beneath the laughing sky, For the nations go a-Maying When they hear the New Year cry— "Come over the water to England, My old love, my new love, Come over the water to England, In showers of flowery rain; Come over the water to England, April, my true love; And tell the heart of England The Spring is here again!"
— from The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 by Burton Egbert Stevenson

The negociations are not yet completely cleared up which were carried on with Mary in 1582-3 for her restoration in Scotland.
— from A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) by Leopold von Ranke

N. Y. Century Co. Ed.
— from A Library Primer by John Cotton Dana

Now, you can crab our whole act—that’s easy to see—if you go down there and tell those people they’re fools, and that they ought to have two dollars an acre for their oil rights—more’n we’ve paid them for all their coal and their timber and their land any time these last twenty years!
— from The Way Out by Emerson Hough

A New York comedian came to study the method of one of whose acting he had heard much report; he was so affected by the unlearned art of this master of the soul that he fairly blubbered behind his handkerchief.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 04, October 1883 by Chautauqua Institution

Now you can choose your own path, in full--full freedom.
— from Play-Making: A Manual of Craftsmanship by William Archer

No young curate could be more circumspect and exemplary than I have been.
— from Tom Moore: An Unhistorical Romance Founded on Certain Happenings in the Life of Ireland's Greatest Poet by Theodore Burt Sayre

now you can cringe, and fawn, eh? back with you!—the girl, I say."
— from The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper by Martin Farquhar Tupper