In the United States the distinctions of rank in civil society are slight, in political society they are null; an American, therefore, does not think himself bound to pay particular attentions to any of his fellow-citizens, nor does he require such attentions from them towards himself.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

This then is one of the peninsulas, and the other beginning from the land of the Persians stretches along to the Erythraian Sea, including Persia and next after it Assyria, and Arabia after Assyria: and this ends, or rather is commonly supposed to end, 40 at the Arabian gulf, into which Dareios conducted a channel from the Nile.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

Of all the times of mine that Time has in his grip, there is none that in one retrospect I can smile at half so much, and think of half so tenderly.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

The people who live near each other receive, in continued succession, the loads [of perfumes] and deliver them to others, who convey them as far as Syria and Mesopotamia.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

Inc. 180 Varick Street New York, N.Y. 10014 CONTENTS Introduction to "The Life of Reason" THE SUBJECT OF THIS WORK, ITS METHOD AND ANTECEDENTS Progress is relative to an ideal which reflection creates.—Efficacious reflection is reason.—The Life of Reason a name for all practical thought and all action justified by its fruits in consciousness.—It is the sum of Art.—It has a natural basis which makes it definable.—Modern philosophy not helpful.—Positivism no positive ideal.—Christian philosophy mythical: it misrepresents facts and conditions.—Liberal theology a superstitious attitude toward a natural world.—The Greeks thought straight in both physics and morals.—Heraclitus and the immediate.—Democritus and the naturally intelligible.—Socrates and the autonomy of mind.—Plato gave the ideal its full expression.—Aristotle supplied its natural basis.—Philosophy thus complete, yet in need of restatement.—Plato's myths in lieu of physics.—Aristotle's final causes.—Modern science can avoid such expedients.—Transcendentalism true but inconsequential.—Verbal ethics.—Spinoza and the Life of Reason.—Modern and classic sources of inspiration Volume One: Reason in Common Sense CHAPTER
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

I preferred that they should take one of these, but they immediately compelled them to take the other, for fear that the other route if chosen should give rise to mutiny among the troops and cause some disturbance, and that then, when they had once begun to mutiny, they might throw all into confusion.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

"Twelve years ago, in vision or reality, I certainly saw you.
— from Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Next they start on other charges and other retreats in corresponsive spaces, and interlink circle with circle, and wage the armed phantom of battle.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

We may suppose Argaius to signify Mons cavus: or rather ignis cavitas , sive Vulcani domus , a name given from its being hollow, and at the same time a reservoir of fiery matter.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

If, in this way, I can accomplish my object and do good to the people of Rixton, I cannot see how I shall be taking a mean advantage of them.
— from The Unknown Wrestler by H. A. (Hiram Alfred) Cody

Across the waves of roofs, I can see a woman of middle age, wrinkled, poor, who is always leaning over something, and who never goes out.
— from Baudelaire: His Prose and Poetry by Charles Baudelaire

Fruit medium, turbinate-ovoid, ordinarily regular in contour; skin rather thick, clear green spotted with gray specks, round, small, numerous; at maturity the basic green becomes a dull pale yellow and golden on the side next the sun; flesh yellowish, semi-fine and melting, gritty round the core; juice sufficient and sweet; second; Aug. Ingénieur Wolters.
— from The Pears of New York by U. P. Hedrick

With the organisation of the Seawanhaka Yacht Club of New York, and the Eastern Yacht Club in Boston, the circle of really important clubs seems to be filled; but it is to-day easy to find as many as twenty-five or thirty clubs scattered from Maine to Florida, whose influence and example offer encouragement to the promotion of social intercourse and yacht designing.
— from Yachting, Vol. 2 by Dufferin and Ava, Frederick Temple Blackwood, Marquis of

Then he looked about and ultimately got a very handsome suite of rooms in Clarendon Street, East Melbourne.
— from Madame Midas by Fergus Hume

When the ceremony of robing is completed, she proceeds to the House of Peers through the longest room in the palace, the Victoria Gallery, one hundred and ten feet long and forty-five feet wide and high.
— from England, Picturesque and Descriptive: A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel by Joel Cook

It affirmed its revolutionary character by denying the possibility of reforms in capitalist society and by insisting upon the necessity of seizing the political power of the State in a revolutionary way.
— from Syndicalism in France by Lewis L. (Lewis Levitzki) Lorwin

As soon as the door had closed Colonel North rose, sighed and muttered: "With a seeming idiot like that on officers' row I can see our old and happy life here passing."
— from Uncle Sam's Boys as Sergeants; or, Handling Their First Real Commands by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock