I think it also very just that no Grecian city should be deprived of such rights and privileges, since they were preserved to them under the great Augustus.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

A strange unreality which can call out such real and palpable effects as a compulsion symptom!
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

So cheard he his fair Spouse, and she was cheard, But silently a gentle tear let fall From either eye, and wip’d them with her haire; Two other precious drops that ready stood, Each in thir chrystal sluce, hee ere they fell Kiss’d as the gracious signs of sweet remorse And pious awe, that feard to have offended.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

They are kept together by the peculiarity of their topographical position; by their individual weakness and insignificancy; by the fear of powerful neighbors, to one of which they were formerly subject; by the few sources of contention among a people of such simple and homogeneous manners; by their joint interest in their dependent possessions; by the mutual aid they stand in need of, for suppressing insurrections and rebellions, an aid expressly stipulated and often required and afforded; and by the necessity of some regular and permanent provision for accommodating disputes among the cantons.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

When each individual realises for himself that this thing primarily stands for and should only be accepted as a moral due—that it should be paid out as honestly stored energy, and not as a usurped privilege—many of our social, religious, and political troubles will have permanently passed.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

Note 63 ( return ) [ That military office, so respectable at present, was still more conspicuous when it was divided between two persons, (Daniel, Hist.
— 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

This basin was of great depth, but so transparent was the water that the bottom, which seemed to consist of a thick mass of small round alabaster pebbles, was distinctly visible by glimpses—that is to say, whenever the eye could permit itself not to see, far down in the inverted heaven, the duplicate blooming of the hills.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

In this purely rational system of ethics the contradiction reveals itself thus, the Stoic is obliged in his doctrine of the way to the blessed life (for that is what his ethical system always remains) to insert a recommendation of suicide (as among the magnificent ornaments and apparel of Eastern despots there is always a costly vial of poison) for the case in which the sufferings of the body, which cannot be philosophised away by any principles or syllogistic reasonings, are paramount and incurable; thus its one aim, blessedness, is rendered vain, and nothing remains as a mode of escape from suffering except death; in such a case then death must be voluntarily accepted, just as we would take any other medicine.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Come, recollect how often sacred rites are performed anew, because some ceremony of our country had been omitted through negligence or accident.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

The descendants of Scyld ruled and prospered till the days of his great-grandson Hrothgar, [Pg 3] one of a family of four, who can all be identified historically with various Danish kings and princes.
— from Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race by M. I. (Maud Isabel) Ebbutt

On May 6th the new Reichstag was opened by a speech from the throne, almost exclusively reflecting the Emperor’s absorption in schemes of social reform and progress, and the new Chancellor, Caprivi, laid before Parliament a Trades Law Amendment Act, as a first attempt at embodying these schemes.
— from The Young Emperor, William II of Germany A Study in Character Development on a Throne by Harold Frederic

CHAPTER XIX MISS WALTON MADE OF DIFFERENT CLAY FROM OTHERS Simple remedies and prolonged rest were sufficient to restore Annie after the serious shock and strain she had sustained.
— from Opening a Chestnut Burr by Edward Payson Roe

As, in the intelligible world, there is a multitude of beings which there occupy the first, second, or third ranks, in that they depend from that only centre of a single sphere; and as they coexist there without any separating distance between them, the result is that the essences which 319 occupy the first or second ranks are present there even where are the beings that occupy the third rank.
— from Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 2 In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods by Plotinus

A body of 40,000 Russians was in Mecklemberg; Bernadotte, the Prince Royal of Sweden, occupied Berlin and the surrounding district with an army of 120,000 men, composed of Swedes, Russians, and Prussians.
— from The Memoirs of General Baron de Marbot by Marbot, Jean-Baptiste-Antoine-Marcelin, baron de

The farm-kitchen inside might have served as a subject for Van Ostade, so rude and primitive it is, with its great oaken settle in the ingle nook, and mighty Jacobean table, inches thick, so constructed as to well-nigh double its length when fully extended. Panel at Church Preen Through crooked byways, abloom with bluebells and gay pink campion, we now make our way to Church Preen, a tiny hamlet set in a romantic dell, 'far from the madding crowd.'
— from Nooks and Corners of Shropshire by H. Thornhill (Henry Thornhill) Timmins

And on Monday morning when they were all assembled on the platform to bid good-bye to their fellow-workers, it was curious to see this huge man, who at a first impression would be taken for a mere mass of sensuality, rushing about putting buns and sandwiches in paper bags for his poor chorus-girls, encouraging them with kind words, and when the train began to move, waving them large and unctuous farewells with his big hat.
— from A Mummer's Wife by George Moore

How many are on the pay-rolls of English railways, of Scotch railways and, particularly, of Irish railways?
— from The Secret Memoirs of Bertha Krupp From the Papers and Diaries of Chief Gouvernante Baroness D'Alteville by Henry W. (Henry William) Fischer

If the attempt is made to accumulate a large library in one small room, a point is reached where much energy is wasted in trying to find the books.
— from The Principles of Economics, with Applications to Practical Problems by Frank A. (Frank Albert) Fetter

20, where he defines Maratarexvia to be a certain unnecessary imitation of art, which really does neither good nor harm, but is as unprofitable and ridiculous as was the labour of that man who had so perfectly learned to cast small peas through the eye of a needle at a good distance that he never missed one, and was justly rewarded for it, as is said, by Alexander, who saw the performance, with a bushel of peas.”—Coste.] who having a man brought before him that had learned to throw a grain of millet with such dexterity and assurance as never to miss the eye of a needle; and being afterwards entreated to give something for the reward of so rare a performance, he pleasantly, and in my opinion justly, ordered a certain number of bushels of the same grain to be delivered to him, that he might not want wherewith to exercise so famous an art.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne