Our people do not vote in mass for anything; they pick out captains of thought, they pick out the men that do know, and they send them to the Legislature to think for them, and then the people afterward ratify or disallow them.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

They were years mingled of half breathless work, of anxious self-questionings, of planning and replanning, of disillusion, or mounting wonder.
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

The suddenness and the nature of the surprise had nearly proved too much for—we will not say the philosophy—but for the pitch and resolution of David.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

Some men are more inclined to particular disorders than others; and, therefore, we say that some people are rheumatic, others dropsical, not because they are so at present, but because they are often so: some are inclined to fear, others to some other perturbation.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is perfectly safe to say now that if the Hegelian gnosticism, which has begun to show itself here and in Great Britain, were to become a popular philosophy, as it once was in Germany, it would certainly develop its left wing here as there, and produce a reaction of disgust.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

He walked to a wardrobe and produced a robe of dingy scarlet.
— from The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The little incubator had been brought from the roof of our palace at request of Dejah Thoris and she sat gazing longingly upon the unknown little life that now she would never know.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

“Let us, then, push for the place, and relieve our doubts,” said the impatient Duncan; “the party must be small that can lie on such a bit of land.”
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

Bruce says: “A natural power of the prevention and repair of disorders and disease has as real and as active an existence within us, as have the ordinary functions of the organs themselves.” Hippocrates said: “Nature is the physician of diseases.”
— from Mind and Body; or, Mental States and Physical Conditions by William Walker Atkinson

She has left to us more than one clear, perfect picture of these formal little routs in the great low-raftered chamber, softly alight with candles on mantel-tree and in sconces; with Lucinda, the black maid, "shrilly piping;" and rows of demure little girls of Boston Brahmin blood, in high rolls and feathers, discreetly partaking of hot and cold punch, and soberly walking and curtsying through the minuet; fantastic in costume, but proper and seemly in demeanor, models of correct deportment as were their elegant mammas.
— from Diary of Anna Green Winslow, a Boston School Girl of 1771 by Anna Green Winslow

As there was a difference in the natural products and resources of different sections of the country, there was a system of reciprocal trade in the exchange of the different desirable commodities.
— from Indians of the Yosemite Valley and Vicinity Their History, Customs and Traditions by Galen Clark

Behold the wondrous transformation undergone by those very looks and features that give the natural language, as sentiments contrary to each other are successively presented, and Republican or Democrat, Pro-Slavery man or Abolitionist, walks up!
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

The Cardinal of Porto and Ramon Ortiz, Dominican Provincial of Aragon, promptly reported to Jayme that he and his brother had been represented as wavering in the faith and as believers in dreams, and advised him no longer to employ as his envoy such a heretic as Arnaldo.
— from A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume III by Henry Charles Lea

In the light of the whole investigation into these fundamental verities, it determines the principles and rules of duty in the various relations of life.
— from Theoretical Ethics by M. (Milton) Valentine

The survivors, a small party only, now reached the end of the passage, and ran on, driven on by the air, which was rushing along it.
— from Taking Tales: Instructive and Entertaining Reading by William Henry Giles Kingston

It should be remembered, also, that the sailor has few opportunities of receiving instruction in polite literature, of learning lessons of moral culture, and of sharing the pleasures and refinements of domestic life.
— from Jack in the Forecastle; or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale by John Sherburne Sleeper

The patients who frequented the tomb were so affected by their devotion, their expectation, the place, the solemnity, and, above all, by the sympathy of the surrounding multitude, that many of them were thrown into violent convulsions, which convulsions, in certain instances, produced a removal of disorder, depending upon obstruction.
— from Evidences of Christianity by William Paley