But this being in great variety of degrees (as may be perceived amongst men) cannot certainly be discovered in the several species of animals, much less in their particular individuals.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

Examine the rest in like sort, and you shall find that kingdoms and provinces are melancholy, cities and families, all creatures, vegetal, sensible, and rational, that all sorts, sects, ages, conditions, are out of tune, as in Cebes' table, omnes errorem bibunt , before they come into the world, they are intoxicated by error's cup, from the highest to the lowest have need of physic, and those particular actions in [177] Seneca, where father and son prove one another mad, may be general; Porcius Latro shall plead against us all.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

I even saw cases in which parents bought the right of presenting to the office of cashier at one of these banks, with the fixed determination that some one of their sons (perhaps a mere child) should fill it.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

A rich booty lay ready to their hands; for in the panic after Montaperti crowds of the best in Florence had fled, leaving all behind them except their wives and children, whom they would not trust to the cruel mercy of the victors.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

(4) Use great care in translating Latin Participles , and make clear in your translation the relation of the participial enlargements to the action of the main Verb.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

“Surely,” said I, “surely that is something at my window lattice; Let me see, then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore— Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore;— ‘Tis the wind and nothing more!” Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of yore; Not the least obeisance made he; not an instant stopped or stayed he; But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door— Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door— Perched, and sat, and nothing more.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Next came Idomeneus, 93 and Tydeus' son, 94 Ajax the less, and Ajax Telamon; 95 Then wise Ulysses in his rank was placed; And Menelaus came, unbid, the last.
— from The Iliad by Homer

There were soft rugs, rich, upholstered chairs and divans, a grand piano, a marble carving of some unknown Venus by some unknown artist, and a number of small bronzes gathered from heaven knows where, but generally sold by the large furniture houses along with everything else which goes to make the “perfectly appointed house.”
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

" "Monsieur," cried Planchet, "when I think that it is here, in my home, in the midst of my sugar, my prunes, and my cinnamon, that this gigantic project is ripened, my shop seems a palace to me.
— from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas

Now that region is covered with villages and farms and the smoke is from the chimneys of homes where prosperity and modern comforts are to be found.
— from The Pioneer Trail by Alfred Lambourne

As would appear from this statement, Aristotle has never fully developed the idea of his absolute spirit, and still less has he harmonized it with the fundamental principles and demands of his philosophy, although many consequences of his system would seem to drive him to this, and numerous principles which he has laid down would seem to prepare the way for it.
— from A History of Philosophy in Epitome by Albert Schwegler

It meant simply that the standard of remuneration was lowered in proportion as men could rely on public aid to make good the deficiency, while at the same time the incentives to independent labour were weakened when the pauper stood on an equal footing with the hard-working man.
— from Liberalism by L. T. (Leonard Trelawny) Hobhouse

The day after his arrival he will find himself employed according to the nature of the work, either surveying and levelling, or drawing plans and making calculations, or in a tent in the middle of the jungles superintending the building of a bridge, with not a soul that can speak a word of English within 30 miles of him.
— from India and Indian Engineering. Three lectures delivered at the Royal Engineer Institute, Chatham, in July 1872 by J. G. (Julius George) Medley

Touching this Ethelred, he was in time of peace a most courteous prince, and one that by all kind of meanes sought to win the hearts of the people: but abroad in the warres he was sharpe and sterne, as he that vnderstood what apperteined to good order, so that he would suffer no offense to escape vnpunished.
— from Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete by William Harrison

He visits the Stanze of Raphael in company with Sebastian del Piombo, and Michelangelo comes to see him at his lodgings, and he receives a long letter from Aretino advising him to compare Michelangelo with Raphael, and Sansovino and Bramante with the sculptors and architects of antiquity.
— from The Venetian School of Painting by Evelyn March Phillipps

Soviet-supported Vietnamese aggression in Indo-china has posed a major challenge to regional stability.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

The carriage passed through the "Black Town," and then through the European quarter, which, with its brick houses, well-dressed people, and handsome equipages, presented a marked contrast to the native town.
— from Round the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

Until the discovery of an easy and simple way of decorating the linen ruffs and cuffs of the period these had been quite plain, as many contemporary portraits show.
— from Chats on Old Lace and Needlework by Emily Leigh Lowes