He who once makes intelligible to himself how, after the death of Socrates, the mystagogue of science, one philosophical school succeeds another, like wave upon wave,—how an entirely unfore-shadowed universal development of the thirst for knowledge in the widest compass of the cultured world (and as the specific task for every one [Pg 117] highly gifted) led science on to the high sea from which since then it has never again been able to be completely ousted; how through the universality of this movement a common net of thought was first stretched over the entire globe, with prospects, moreover, of conformity to law in an entire solar system;—he who realises all this, together with the amazingly high pyramid of our present-day knowledge, cannot fail to see in Socrates the turning-point and vortex of so-called universal history.
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

This, she being afeard of declaring an absolute hatred to him since his falling out with her about Coleman’s being with her, she declares against his coming hither, which I not presently agreeing to, she declared, if he come, she would not live with me, but would shame me all over the city and court, which I made slight of, and so we fell very foul; and I do find she do keep very bad remembrances of my former unkindness to her, and do mightily complain of her want of money and liberty, which I will rather hear and bear the complaint of than grant the contrary, and so we had very hot work a great while: but at last I did declare as I intend, that my father shall not come, and that he do not desire and intend it; and so we parted with pretty good quiet, and so away, and being ready went to church, where first I saw Alderman Backewell and his lady come to our church, they living in Mark Lane; and I could find in my heart to invite her to sit with us, she being a fine lady.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

“I sing so well,” said he, “that sixteen native grasshoppers who have chirped from infancy, and yet got no house built of cards to live in, grew thinner than they were before for sheer vexation when they heard me.”
— from Andersen's Fairy Tales by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

America isn't the only country that lost its mind this decade.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

The word introspection need hardly be defined—it means, of course, the looking into our own minds and reporting what we there discover.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

And all the morning from ten till one the quill of Wedderburn shrieked defiance at Hill's, and the quills of the others chased their leaders in a tireless pack, and so also it was in the afternoon.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

It seems to have been added for the purpose of connecting the lyric interpolation with the rest of the poem.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

In the effusion of his gratitude, he pays a visit to his mistress, and both address a letter (8) to Cardinal Wolsey, in which Henry manifests his astonishment at not having yet heard of the arrival of Campeggio, the legate, in Paris.
— from The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn; With Notes by King of England Henry VIII

‘It was a Roman practice to invite the patron deity of a place or country to leave it, and to promise a more honourable worship at Rome.’—Whibley.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

[pg II-423] INDEX [pg II-425] Age , Louisville, connection with, I 32 Aid to stranded Americans in Europe on outbreak of war, I 304, 307, 329 Alabama claims, the framed check for, in British Foreign Office, I 390, II 78 Alderman, Dr. Edwin A., early efforts in behalf of public education, I 73, 78; stricken with tuberculosis, but recovers health, I 120; on committee to lecture in England, II 346.
— from The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II by Burton Jesse Hendrick

The former kind of bleach-liquor is mostly used in the industry of cotton, the latter in that of linen.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

Still my temper hadn't improved; indeed I think it was worse, for conceit was added to my other bad qualities; and when I would have liked to be amiable and join the merry flock of cockatoos that lived in the trees near us, they would have nothing to say to me.
— from The Cockatoo's Story by Cupples, George, Mrs.

—When the scene-shifter ingeniously introduceth a forest into a bed-chamber, or committeth the like incongruity, marvellous pleasant and mirthful to behold, but in no way conducive to success.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 25, 1841 by Various

The situation in which he resided was so remote and solitary, so far from the comforts and conveniences that are derived from human intercourse, that scarcely any other man in the parish could be induced to undertake the duties attached to it, or consent to live in it at all.
— from The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by William Carleton

This demand Governor Ellis promptly refused; and he at once convened the Legislature in special session, declaring in his proclamation that the time for action had come, and, upon his recommendation, twenty thousand volunteers were called for by the General Assembly to sustain North Carolina in her course.
— from School History of North Carolina : from 1584 to the present time by John W. (John Wheeler) Moore

The growing divorcement in the ownership of capital and labour in the industrial unit will be found to be a direct and most important result of those improvements in mechanical arts which, by continually increasing the proportion of capital to labour in a business, placed capital more and more beyond the possession of those who supplied the labour power required to co-operate in production.
— from The Evolution of Modern Capitalism: A Study of Machine Production by J. A. (John Atkinson) Hobson

To this, if any answer be given, be what it may, it will still be only changing the language: it will be invariably another method of expressing the same thing; seeing that man with all his ingenuity, will never be able to describe properties but after himself or those of the beings by whom he is surrounded.
— from The System of Nature, or, the Laws of the Moral and Physical World. Volume 2 by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'

Of course the law is liable to many exceptions, chiefly dependent on the place of birth and early associations of painters; but its force is, I think, strongly shown in this;—that, though the Flemish painters never showed any disposition to paint, for its own sake , other scenery than of their own land (compare Vol.
— from Modern Painters, Volume 4 (of 5) by John Ruskin