Now in order to know what passions are related to these different kinds of sympathy, we must consider, that benevolence is an original pleasure arising from the pleasure of the person beloved, and a pain proceeding from his pain: From which correspondence of impressions there arises a subsequent desire of his pleasure, and aversion to his pain.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Considering, however, that Caligula’s vicious disposition was already known, and that it had even been an inducement with Tiberius to procure his succession, in order that it might prove a foil to his own memory; it is surprising that no effort was made at this juncture to shake off the despotism which had been so intolerable in the last reign, and restore the ancient liberty of the republic.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

But the favor of the people is less permanent than the resentment of the priest; and after the heresy of Arnold had been condemned by Innocent the Second, 22 in the general council of the Lateran, the magistrates themselves were urged by prejudice and fear to execute the sentence of the church.
— 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 he hurriedly adapted to include the satirical characters suggested by "Poetaster," and fashioned to convey the satire of his reply.
— from Every Man in His Humor by Ben Jonson

[290] to take the edge off other folks' teeth or to fend off imminent perils; and, for that the matter is goodly and may be useful, [291] I will that to-morrow, with God's aid, it be discoursed within these terms, to wit, OF WHOSO, BEING ASSAILED WITH SOME JIBING SPEECH, HATH VINDICATED HIMSELF OR HATH WITH SOME READY REPLY OR ADVISEMENT ESCAPED LOSS, PERIL OR SHAME."
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

And also he owned the other hole near by, where the stagnant water was; and it was he who cut the ice and sold it; and what was more, if the men told truth, he had not had to pay any taxes for the water, and he had built the ice-house out of city lumber, and had not had to pay anything for that.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Certainly not the last, he replied; for I know of many things—meats, drinks, medicines, and ten thousand other things, which are inexpedient for man, and some which are expedient; and some which are neither expedient nor inexpedient for man, but only for horses; and some for oxen only, and some for dogs; and some for no animals, but only for trees; and some for the roots of trees and not for their branches, as for example, manure, which is a good thing when laid about the roots of a tree, but utterly destructive if thrown upon the shoots and young branches; or I may instance olive oil, which is mischievous to all plants, and generally most injurious to the hair of every animal with the exception of man, but beneficial to human hair and to the human body generally; and even in this application (so various and changeable is the nature of the benefit), that which is the greatest good to the outward parts of a man, is a very great evil to his inward parts: and for this reason physicians always forbid their patients the use of oil in their food, except in very small quantities, just enough to extinguish the disagreeable sensation of smell in meats and sauces.
— from Protagoras by Plato

There is a hillock facing my window on which the children of the place assemble for their games.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Control of the minority may, in the first place, arise from the fact that the many are more powerful than the few.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

These grossly absurd statements called forth some very scathing criticisms and much ridicule by the medical and secular press, and induced Prof. R. H. Thurston, of the Stevens Institute of Technology—who had derived benefit from the Health Foods—to invite his colleague, Prof. Albert N. Leeds, Public Analyst for the State of New Jersey and Professor of Chemistry in the Stevens Institute, to microscopically examine and chemically analyze the food substances alluded to, for the purpose of determining the accuracy or inaccuracy of Cutter’s statements, and, furthermore, to settle the question of the value of the “microscopic analysis,” for which so much had been claimed by Cutter.
— from Food and Morals 6th Edition by J. F. (John F.) Clymer

Undoubtedly superstitious reverence used to be paid to it to within comparatively recent times, which probably accounts for the churchwarden wishing to have it removed.
— from Guernsey Folk Lore a collection of popular superstitions, legendary tales, peculiar customs, proverbs, weather sayings, etc., of the people of that island by MacCulloch, Edgar, Sir

In the southern hemisphere, the effects in the same season will be reversed, which may partly account for the greater degree of cold in that hemisphere, and for accelerating the approach of both summer and winter, while in the north they were both retarded.
— from Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence by Thomas Bassnett

Before morning both ships were arrested in dense pack, and forced to retreat for shelter to a narrow inlet with steep shelving sides.
— from Shores of the Polar Sea: A Narrative of the Arctic Expedition of 1875-6 by Edward L. (Edward Lawton) Moss

And be it further enacted , That whenever the President of the United States shall have reason to believe that offenses have been or are likely to be committed against the provisions of this act within any judicial district, it shall be lawful for him, in his discretion, to direct the judge, marshal, and district attorney of such district to attend at such place within the district, and for such time as he may designate, for the purpose of the more speedy arrest and trial of persons charged with a violation of this act; and it shall be the duty of every judge or other officer, when any such requisition shall be received by him, to attend at the place, and for the time therein designated.
— from History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by William Horatio Barnes

In a moment Hildegarde heard the roar of his motor, and, turning, watched him drive at breakneck pace away from the city....
— from The Highflyers by Clarence Budington Kelland

Where individuals are oppressed, or where they believe that they are oppressed, they combine against their oppressors, and oppose cunning and falsehood to power and force; they think themselves released from the compact of truth with their masters, and bind themselves in a strict league with each other; thus school-boys hold no faith with their schoolmaster, though they would think it shameful to be dishonourable amongst one another.
— from Practical Education, Volume I by Richard Lovell Edgeworth

Have spirit to cow them: so our soft French Nobles Chain'd up in ease and numbd securitie (Their spirits shrunke up like their covetous fists, And never opened but Domitian-like, 165 And all his base, obsequious minions When they were catching though it were but flyes), Besotted with their pezzants love of gaine, Rusting at home, and on each other preying, Are for their greatnesse but the greater slaves, 170
— from Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois by George Chapman

It doesn't cost a cent more to procure a franchise to build a road from here to the moon.
— from The Valley of the Giants by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne