I began, therefore, to study the history of our families, and of our nation, in Spain and Portugal, in respect to its theology—its poetry—its attainments in science—its political and diplomatic position, taking a general review of its prosperity and of its astonishing calamities.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

Not alone in sensitive, highly organised natures is such a mental conflict possible.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

One never is secure in these cases: and when one considers the time and labour spent, the genius, the anxiety, the outlay of money required, the multiplicity of bad debts that one meets with (for dishonourable rascals are to be found at the play-table, as everywhere else in the world), I say, for my part, the profession is a bad one; and, indeed, have scarcely ever met a man who, in the end, profited by it.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

We have all of us sobbed so piteously, standing with tiny bare legs above our little socks, when we lost sight of our mother or nurse in some strange place; but we can no longer recall the poignancy of that moment and weep over it, as we do over the remembered sufferings of five or ten years ago.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Our nature is so constituted that intuition with us never can be other than sensuous, that is, it contains only the mode in which we are affected by objects.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

3. The claim of Naissus is supported by the anonymous writer, published at the end of Ammianus, p. 710, and who in general copied very good materials; and it is confirmed by Julius Firmicus, (de Astrologia, l. i. c. 4,) who flourished under the reign of Constantine himself.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

" "Oh no; I shan't speak to Mr. Boldwood.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

There is no evidence, however, to show that K[=o]b[=o] did more than arrange in order forty-seven of the easiest Chinese signs then used, in such a manner that they conveyed in a few lines of doggerel the sense of a passage from a sutra in which the mortality of man and the emptiness of all things are taught, and the doctrine of Nirvana is suggested.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

For the way in which they obtain nourishment is somewhat as follows.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

“Oh no,” I said; “we couldn’t do that sort of thing, even if we wanted.”
— from An Open-Eyed Conspiracy; An Idyl of Saratoga by William Dean Howells

So that although the principle of indemnity was incorporated, it was left to the legislature, whenever it enacts a [280] special law decreeing a socialization measure, to decide whether or not indemnity shall be accorded and to what extent.
— from The New German Constitution by René Brunet

Thus in the example here given (Fig. 87), so long as the eye is concerned only with the two stately figures, there is only pleasure in such admirable workmanship; but when the gaze wanders to the near, and especially the remote, background, there is nothing to delight the lover of art or nature in such confusion, insubstantiality, flat, waving shadows without beauty or meaning.
— from A History of Wood-Engraving by George Edward Woodberry

Truly, to them, as to the Sabreur of Offenbach, nothing is sacred.
— from Critical Studies by Ouida

“But I warn’t satisfied then, for I says to myself, ‘Them poor beggars down below won’t get the dose now, but I should like t’others to have a taste;’ and to make sure as they did, I takes the tin as you’d got the lumps o’ meat in, pours out all the pieces and fills it up from the tin they’d doctored, and filled it up again with the juice I’d poured out; now I says to myself, whichever lot they have’ll give ’em what they meant for some one else—and so it did.
— from Sail Ho! A Boy at Sea by George Manville Fenn

Dr. Anstie says: "If alcohol is to be administered at all for the relief of neuralgia, it should be given with as much precision, as to dose, as we should use in giving an acknowledged deadly poison ."
— from Grappling with the Monster; Or, the Curse and the Cure of Strong Drink by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur