Still the exercise of the faculty of abstraction apart from facts has enlarged the mind, and played a great part in the education of the human race.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

That may still be done by better conduct on your own part and great patience.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

He would have proved a good deal for many people if he had gone out on a Friday, and had chanced to have been assassinated.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Somewhat late you have opened your eyes, for between you and me together we might have executed marvelous plans, I above in the higher circles spreading death amid perfume and gold, brutalizing the vicious and corrupting or paralyzing the few good, and you below among the people, among the young men, stirring them to life amid blood and tears.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

A1; a12] play a game with beer as bets.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Topsy, with great gravity and adroitness, went through the exercise completely to Miss Ophelia’s satisfaction; smoothing the sheets, patting out every wrinkle, and exhibiting, through the whole process, a gravity and seriousness with which her instructress was greatly edified.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

After the decline of Amalphi, the Venetians, Pisans, and Genoese, introduced their factories and settlements into the capital of the empire: their services were rewarded with honors and immunities; they acquired the possession of lands and houses; their families were multiplied by marriages with the natives; and, after the toleration of a Mahometan mosque, it was impossible to interdict the churches of the Roman rite.
— 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

Put them on piecework, and their prayers are got over very quickly; but pay them by the day, and even the ablutions seem interminable!
— from Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier A Record of Sixteen Years' Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches by T. L. (Theodore Leighton) Pennell

From these facts it has been alleged that I was prejudiced against General Warren, but this is not true.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan

When that ceremony was over, the king departed to go to another chief in Busiro; but on the way thither he stopped at a place called Baka and sat down under a great tree to play a game of spinning fruit-stones.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 06 of 12) by James George Frazer

—Prepare a good suet crust, and line a cake-tin with it; put in layers of steak with onions, tomatoes, and mushrooms, chopped fine, a seasoning of pepper, salt and cayenne, and half a cup of water before you close it.
— from Barkham Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 by Barkham Burroughs

Indeed any man whose eye gazeth upon His Words with true faith well deserveth Paradise; and one whose conscience beareth witness unto His Words with true faith shall abide in Paradise and attain the presence of God; and one whose tongue giveth utterance to His Words with true faith shall have his abode in Paradise, wherein he will be seized with ecstasy in praise and glorification of God, the Ever-Abiding, Whose revelations of glory never end and the reviving breaths of Whose holiness never fail. Every hand which setteth down His Words with true faith shall be filled by God, both in this world and in the next, with things that are highly prized; and every breast which committeth His Words to memory, God shall cause, if it were that of a believer, to be filled with His love; and every heart which cherisheth the love of His Words and manifesteth in itself the signs of true faith when His Name is mentioned, and exemplifieth the words, ‘their hearts are thrilled with awe at the mention of God’, 64 that heart will become the object of the glances of divine favour and on the Day of Resurrection will be highly praised by God.
— from Selections From the Writings of the Báb by `Ali Muhammad Shirazi Bab

London, 1820, where proofs are given.
— from History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Vol. I by John Colin Dunlop

There are points in the pedigree, as genealogists will see, totally discrepant from the Peerages.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 233, April 15, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

Isfánalgi; seems analogous to the Ispáni phratry and gens of the Chicasa.
— from A Migration Legend of the Creek Indians, vol. 1 With a Linguistic, Historic and Ethnographic Introduction by Albert S. (Albert Samuel) Gatschet

First, chiefly at a Town called Znaim, on the River Taya; many-branched river, draining all those Northwestern parts; which sends its widening waters down to Presburg,—latterly in junction with those of the Morawa from North, which washes Olmutz, drains the Northern and Eastern parts, and gives the Country its name of "Moravia."
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 13 by Thomas Carlyle