We have fed this class of people long enough.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

[4] Thinking of the past, we are not so much concerned with the picture that dead men have placed in our path like ever so many bill boards and posters!
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

Polla oi ut' anko- nos okea belae endon enti pharetras phonanta synetoisin; es de to pan hermaeneon chatizei; sophos o pol- la eidos phua; mathontes de labroi panglossia, korakes os, akranta garueton Dios pros ornicha theion.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I was in our parlor last evening when Mr. Bhaer came in with some newspapers for Mrs. Kirke.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

A man of property like Evgenie to give IOU’s to a money-lender, and to be worried about them!
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Nothing in regard to a passion surprised them, and if one spoke before them of parted lovers, even of vengeance after treachery, both said in the same sad tone: 'Oh, how he must have suffered to come to that point!'
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

The cares of political life engross a most prominent place in the occupation of a citizen in the United States, and almost the only pleasure of which an American has any idea is to take a part in the Government, and to discuss the part he has taken.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Stretching from the point indicated, there was on the right side of the way, a range of "park lots," extending some two miles to the west, all bounded on the south by what at the present time is Queen Street, but which, from being the great thoroughfare along the front of this very range, was long known as "Lot Street."
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

That being done I walked to Greenwich, and there to the office pretty late expecting Captain Cocke's coming, which he did, and so with me to my new lodging (and there I chose rather to lie because of my interest in the goods that we have brought there to lie), but the people were abed, so we knocked them up, and so I to bed, and in the night was mightily troubled with a looseness (I suppose from some fresh damp linen that I put on this night), and feeling for a chamber-pott, there was none, I having called the mayde up out of her bed, she had forgot I suppose to put one there; so I was forced in this strange house to rise and shit in the chimney twice; and so to bed and was very well again, and 29th.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1665 N.S. by Samuel Pepys

His conversation ran about as follows: "Thoreau was somewhat eccentric and did not reach a large class of people like Emerson, who always savored of youth, and stimulates all who read him.
— from Rambles with John Burroughs by R. J. H. (Robert John Henderson) De Loach

But above all, let it bee deeply and seriously thought of, that our Covenant is broken by the neglect of a reall Reformation of our selves and others under our power: let every one ask his own heart what lust is mortified in him, or what change wrought in his life since, more then before the Covenant?
— from The Acts Of The General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland by Church of Scotland. General Assembly

Any one perhaps less experienced than myself in the treacherous character of the most promising river of the Australian Continent, would have acted differently.
— from Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia Performed Under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government, During the Years 1844, 5, and 6, Together With A Notice of the Province of South Australia in 1847 by Charles Sturt

The chapter titles will give an adequate idea of the ground covered: German engraving: from the beginning to Martin Schongauer; Italian engraving: the Florentines; German engraving: the master of the Amsterdam cabinet and Albrecht Dürer; Italian engraving: Mantegna to Marcantonio Raimondi; Some masters of portraiture; Landscape etching.
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

Let every man be his own bishop, let every man be his own pope, let every man do his own thinking, let every man have a brain of his own.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

The protection of life and property, the habeas corpus , trial by jury, the right of open trial, these are principles of public liberty existing in their best form in the republican institutions of this country, but, to the extent mentioned, existing also in the constitution of England.
— from The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Edwin Percy Whipple

The line of prophets, long extinct in Israel, was now succeeded by a line of scholars, of whom he was first in learning--a prophet in all but the divine inspiration!
— from Ben-Hur: A tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace

But nobody could live in hospital—nobody could go among the poor—nobody could share the thoughts and hopes of people like Edward Hallin and his sister, without understanding that it is still here in the world—this "grace" that "sustaineth"—however variously interpreted, still living and working, as it worked of old, among the little Galilean towns, in Jerusalem, in Corinth.
— from Marcella by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.