Since all the clans are only parts of one and the same tribe, the unity of the tribe cannot fail to make itself felt through this diversity of particular cults.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

The example of the churches of Scotland, of Geneva, and of several other protestant churches, may satisfy us, that in so creditable a profession, in which education is so easily procured, the hopes of much more moderate benefices will draw a sufficient number of learned, decent, and respectable men into holy orders.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

that the Oriental philosophy, combined with the cabalistical philosophy of the Jews, had given birth to Gnosticism.
— 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

The departure for Cythera! exclaims Watteau; Lancret, the painter of plebeians, contemplates his bourgeois, who have flitted away into the azure sky; Diderot stretches out his arms to all these love idyls, and d’Urfé mingles druids with them.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

And there are professors of rhetoric who teach the art of persuading courts and assemblies; and so, partly by persuasion and partly by force, I shall make unlawful gains and not be punished.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

They are debarred from filling even moderately high positions, either in the army, or in any public or private capacity.
— from The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl

Our present Camp is the prosise Spot the Snake Indians were Camped at the time the Minetarries came in Sight, attacked & killed 4 men 4 women & a number of boys, & made prisoners of all.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

In June, Casanova composed for the theater of Princess Clari, at Teplitz, a piece entitled: ‘Le Polemoscope ou la Calomnie demasquee par la presence d’esprit, tragicomedie en trois actes’.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Seated in a row close to one another were three ladies—Aunts Ann, Hester (the two Forsyte maids), and Juley (short for Julia), who not in first youth had so far forgotten herself as to marry Septimus Small, a man of poor constitution.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

In order that the former may appear, a synthesis sui generis of particular consciousnesses is required.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

The sick woman was not interested in gowns, but she went fairly wild when Susan spoke of Monterey,--the riotous gardens with their walls of white plaster topped with red pipe, the gulls wheeling over the little town, the breakers creaming in lazy, interlocking curves on the crescent of the beach, and the little old plaster church, with its hundred-year-old red altar-cloth, and its altar-step worn into grooves from the knees of the faithful.
— from Saturday's Child by Kathleen Thompson Norris

Our ponies' coats are certainly getting thicker and I see no reason why we shouldn't get to the 80th parallel if only the weather would give us a chance.
— from Scott's Last Expedition Volume I Being the journals of Captain R. F. Scott by Robert Falcon Scott

At this place, Cambyses, king of Persia, committed a very great extravagance; for he burned its temple, demolished all the palaces, and destroyed most of the monuments of antiquity that were then in it.
— from Ruins of Ancient Cities (Vol. 1 of 2) With General and Particular Accounts of Their Rise, Fall, and Present Condition by Charles Bucke

There is an advance towards “naturalness”: in all political questions, even in the relations between parties, even in merchants’, workmen’s circles only questions of power come into play; what one can do is the first question, what one ought to do is a secondary consideration.
— from Philosophy and the Social Problem by Will Durant

Adriani morientis ad animam suam , iii. 420, n. 2. ADULTERY, comparative guilt of a husband and wife, ii. 56; iii. 406; confusion of property caused by it, ii. 55.
— from Life of Johnson, Volume 6 Addenda, index, dicta philosophi, etc. by James Boswell

The table was laid for tea; there was an air of placid comfort, of as it were collusion, which gave the finishing-touch to her anger.
— from A Sovereign Remedy by Flora Annie Webster Steel

But it was doubtless after his successor Shah Abbas I had begun to embellish his capital at Ispahan, that were 88 made the famous “Polish” silk or “Polonaise” carpets about which there has been so much controversy.
— from Oriental Rugs, Antique and Modern by W. A. (Walter Augustus) Hawley

Anastasius, Life of Pope Constantine .
— from Peter's Rock in Mohammed's Flood, from St. Gregory the Great to St. Leo III by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies

What degree of personal criminality to attach to this elopement it is hard to say.
— from A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Volume 1 by Thomas D'Arcy McGee

There is merely need of proper conditions to develop the good side, and the bad will disappear.
— from Hania by Henryk Sienkiewicz