The attack was to be made at night, and the troops were to get possession of the higher ground in the rear where they supposed we had intrenchments, then sweep to the right and left, create a panic in the lines of our army, and force me to contract my lines.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

[Nannerl, partly owing to her grief in consequence of an unfortunate love-affair, was suffering from pains in the chest, which threatened to turn to consumption.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

[1] And how [it is done] I hope by the grace of the Holy Ghost I shall tell, as I saw.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

The starting-point with him was that for the attainment of the highest good, i.e. , blessedness and spiritual peace, one must live in harmony with oneself (ὁμολογουμενους ξῃν; δ᾽ εστι καθ᾽ ἑνα λογον και συμφωνον ξῃν.—
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

The argument, adopted from Solanus, concerning the formula of the procession of the Holy Ghost, is utterly worthless, as it is a mere quotation in the words of the Gospel of St. John, xv.
— 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

“Of course, I ought to have guessed,” Ivan said in agitation; “and I did guess there was some mischief brewing on your part ... only you are lying, you are lying again,” he cried, suddenly recollecting. “Do you remember how you went up to the carriage and said to me, ‘It's always worth while speaking to a clever man’ ?
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The orrery or picture of the heavens given in the Republic differs in its mode of representation from the circles of the same and of the other in the Timaeus.
— from The Republic by Plato

I ought to have got it taken in drapery that never looks out of fashion still I look young in it I wonder he didnt make him a present of it altogether and me too after all why not I saw him driving down to the Kingsbridge station with his father and mother I was in mourning thats 11 years ago now yes hed be 11 though what was the good in going into mourning for what was neither one thing nor the other the first cry was enough for me I heard the deathwatch too ticking in the wall of course he insisted hed go into mourning for the cat I suppose hes a man now by this time he was an innocent boy then and a darling little fellow in his lord Fauntleroy suit and curly hair like a prince on the stage when I saw him at Mat Dillons he liked me too
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

" Moreover, if Shakespeare had served as clerk in an attorney's office it is clear that he must have so served for a considerable period in order to have gained (if, indeed, it is credible that he could have so gained) his remarkable knowledge of the law.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

Whereas there be, that pretend Divine Inspiration, to be a supernaturall entring of the Holy Ghost into a man, and not an acquisition of Gods grace, by doctrine, and study; I think they are in a very dangerous Dilemma.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

With this in view, when the point was reached where we had on the previous day struck the flank of the hanging glacier instead of continuing in the tracks which trended to the right across the long ice-slope, we cut straight down by the side of the glacier to its foot, and over the slope below, in the direction of the séracs immediately crowning the summit of the buttress.
— from Adventures on the Roof of the World by Le Blond, Aubrey, Mrs.

But let us have, not merely that “gleam beyond it,” of which the Christian poet speaks, but that clear vision beyond it, of an eternal life of which our Saviour assures us, and of “the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost,” in the [35] peace of which that eternal life will be spent, and we may be able to feel, like St. Paul, that the affliction of the moment is light, in comparison with the eternal abundance of glory which awaits the soul in the future.
— from The War and the Gospel: Sermons and Addresses During the Present War by Henry Wace

He could find none of them; he gave it up at length and returned to England.
— from A Terrible Secret: A Novel by May Agnes Fleming

She who had been so troubled before the coming of the Heavenly Guest into her breast, wore now so serene and joyful an aspect, that the looking upon her at that time wrought in me a new and comfortable sense of the greatness of that divine sacrament.
— from Constance Sherwood: An Autobiography of the Sixteenth Century by Georgiana Fullerton

I never ought to ha' got in the habit of lending you that key.
— from Fated to Be Free: A Novel by Jean Ingelow

In this manner a rich citizen of Nuremberg, Conrad Heinz, surnamed der Grosse , founded the hospital of the Holy Ghost, in 1331.
— from A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 2 (of 2) by Johann Beckmann

The reign of the Son, or of the New Testament, he ascertains by varied apocalyptic speculations is to last through forty-two generations, or 1260 years—for instance, Judith remained in widowhood three years and a half, or forty-two months, which is 1260 days, the great number representing the years through which the New Testament is to endure, so that in the year 1260 the domination of the Holy Ghost is to replace it.
— from A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume III by Henry Charles Lea

RUDIMENTARY ORGANS IN MAN Reply to critics who deny the simian origin of man.—Actual xvii existence of rudimentary organs.—Reductions in the structure of the organs of sense in man.—Atrophy of Jacobson’s organ and of the Harderian gland in the human race 184 II HUMAN TRAITS OF CHARACTER INHERITED FROM APES
— from The Prolongation of Life: Optimistic Studies by Elie Metchnikoff

There were only a few about the fire; most of them had gone into the ruins to sleep.
— from Shadows in the Moonlight by Robert E. (Robert Ervin) Howard

The confirmed drunkard or thief has got into the stage of moral inability; the common motives that keep mankind sober and honest have failed.
— from Practical Essays by Alexander Bain