"My dear old friends," repeated Dr. Heidegger, "may I reckon on your aid in performing an exceedingly curious experiment?"
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

It arose partly because of the fact that the culture of Rome and of barbarian Europe was not a native product, being borrowed directly or indirectly from Greece, and partly because political and ecclesiastic conditions emphasized dependence upon the authority of past knowledge as that was transmitted in literary documents.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

No classification, no selection and arrangement of facts, which is consciously worked out for purely abstract ends, can ever compare in solidity or effectiveness with that knit under the stress of an occupation; in comparison the former sort is formal, superficial, and cold.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

= KEY: Secure \v.\. SYN: Fasten, guard, protect, assure, ensure, close, enclose, detain, arrest.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

My own poor boy, on the contrary, was the most polite and engaging child ever seen: it was a pleasure to treat him with kindness and distinction; and before he was five years old, the little fellow was the pink of fashion, beauty, and good breeding.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

Multi se in inquietudinem praecipitant ambitione et cupiditatibus excaecati, non intelligunt se illud a diis petere, quod sibi ipsis si velint praestare possint, si curis et perturbationibus, quibus assidue se macerant, imperare vellent.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

In relation to the present problem, therefore, the regulative principle of reason is that everything in the sensuous world possesses an empirically conditioned existence—that no property of the sensuous world possesses unconditioned necessity—that we are bound to expect, and, so far as is possible, to seek for the empirical condition of every member in the series of conditions—and that there is no sufficient reason to justify us in deducing any existence from a condition which lies out of and beyond the empirical series, or in regarding any existence as independent and self-subsistent; although this should not prevent us from recognizing the possibility of the whole series being based upon a being which is intelligible, and for this reason free from all empirical conditions.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Under the influence of this desire, it shows mankind accumulating wealth, and employing that wealth in the production of other wealth; sanctioning by mutual agreement the institution of property; establishing laws to prevent individuals from encroaching upon the property of others by force or fraud; adopting various contrivances for increasing the productiveness of their labor; settling the division of the produce by agreement, under the influence of competition (competition itself being governed by certain laws, which laws are therefore the ultimate regulators of the division of the produce); and employing certain expedients (as money, credit, etc.) to facilitate the distribution.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive by John Stuart Mill

We are protected against every conceivable emergency.”
— from The Gray Phantom by Herman Landon

The legend of the werewolf is found in practically all European countries, especially those where the wolf is common.
— from The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction by Dorothy Scarborough

2] Whether Only the Sin of Pride and Envy Can Exist in an Angel?
— from Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

When we were going up the steps to the Strand he again objected, and quoted Dante's famous lines: "Tu proverai si come sa di sale Lo pane altrui; e com' e duro calle
— from Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions — Volume 1 by Frank Harris

Each change and each variation has its end and object, each step has its purpose, and each contrast ends in some grand result.
— from Corse de Leon; or, The Brigand: A Romance. Volume 1 (of 2) by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Notwithstanding, however, these plain and evident conclusions, even after writing the whole out, I thought I felt a kind of a qualm of conscience about submitting an account of my actions and transactions to the world during my lifetime; and I had almost determined, for decency’s sake, not to let the papers be printed till after I had been gathered to my page ix p. ix fathers; but I took into consideration the duty that one man owes to another; and that my keeping back, and withholding these curious documents, would be in a great measure hindering the improvement of society, so far as I was myself personally concerned.
— from The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith by D. M. (David Macbeth) Moir

William, Peter, and Eliza came eagerly to look at the wonderful sight; but Joe sat still, with his head upon his hand.
— from Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman by Sarah H. (Sarah Hopkins) Bradford

Fatigued and excited, she was glad to escape from the glare of the rooms into an adjoining balcony, to cool her eyes in the dim gleam of the stars—in all moments of excitement or passion, still the same bright, unchanging stars, ever ready to tranquilize us with thoughts of that world where passion and excitement cannot enter.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXX, No. 1, January 1847 by Various

Universal confidence prevailed, and everybody congratulated everybody else.
— from My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71 by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly