In Steller's description of Kamchatka, where he enumerates the headlands of the peninsula, a remarkable statement is found, which offers excellent proof of the correctness of Lütke's opinion.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

For since 236 one may love either a good and excellent child or a bad and vicious one, and be unreasonably angry with one's children or parents, yet in behalf of them show a just anger against enemies or tyrants; as in the one case there is the perception of a difference and struggle between passion and reason, so in the other there is a perception of persuasion and agreement inclining, as it were, the scale, and giving their help.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

"Perhaps she followed us to town," Poor Aunt Rebecca said, "I wish we had not left our home; I fear the child is dead."
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

In colloquial speech, the phrase a "realizing sense" is used to express the urgency, warmth, and intimacy of a direct experience in contrast with the remote, pallid, and coldly detached quality of a representative experience.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

It will also be convenient to separate the discussion of the importance of Free Will in relation to moral action generally from the special question of its importance in relation to punishing and rewarding; since, in the latter species of action, what chiefly claims attention is [67] not the present Freedom of the agent, but the past Freedom of the person now acted on.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

And again, just as the orderly and systematic slaughter which we call war is thought perfectly right under certain circumstances, though painful and revolting: so in the word-contests of the law-courts, the lawyer is commonly [316] held to be justified in untruthfulness within strict rules and limits: for an advocate is thought to be over-scrupulous who refuses to say what he knows to be false, if he is instructed to say it.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

A general feast [ 66 ] then takes place, and the washerman appropriates the fanam, and the paddy and rice spread in the yard.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

"There is a lot of paper and rubbish stuffed in here!"
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

These would be hanging on the outskirts of a wide circle of people assembled round some itinerant juggler, opposed, in his turn, by a noisy band of music, or the classic game of ‘Ring the Bull,’ while ventriloquists holding dialogues with wooden dolls, and fortune-telling women smothering the cries of real babies, divided with them, and many more, the general attention of the company.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Mr. Bagnet, in a perfect abyss of gravity, walks up and down before the little parlour window like a sentry and looks in every time he passes, apparently revolving something in his mind.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

At the time I wrote, "It must be admitted that the training of our barrack-rooms is not favourable to the acquirement of decent manners and gentlemanlike demeanour, and that until we elevate the profession of arms in England, and remove the stigma popularly impressed from the rank of a private soldier, we cannot expect to induce the needy members of the more respectable classes in society to enter as volunteers; and the high rate of rewards for skill in all mechanical and industrial arts will ever offer an obstacle to the efforts of the recruiting sergeant to enlist a better sort of recruits so long as the present scale of pay and ration stoppages is maintained.
— from The British Expedition to the Crimea by Russell, William Howard, Sir

It is related that Napoleon was greatly enraged one day to find that the other side had tried to get the best of his men by putting a round stone into each snowball, but when [18] someone advised him to imitate the tactics of the foe he indignantly refused, saying that he would win without doing so or be beaten.
— from Military Career of Napoleon the Great An Account of the Remarkable Campaigns of the "Man of Destiny"; Authentic Anecdotes of the Battlefield as Told by the Famous Marshals and Generals of the First Empire by Montgomery B. Gibbs

In the present state of society, Penitentiaries (p. 251) cannot be very useful as means of reformation.—Cruel discipline will harden the sufferer, and nothing but goodness can ever win back a sinner to the love and practice of virtue.—Prisoners are criminally neglected by christians.—The loss of character is a calamity, from which the universal sentiment of mankind admits of no redemption.—The conduct of christians towards prisoners and repentant sinners, is directly opposed to the law of God and the principles of their profession.
— from Recollections of Windsor Prison; Containing Sketches of its History and Discipline, with Appropriate Strictures and Moral and Religious Reflection by Reynolds, John, of Vermont

I promise that, so far as I have wisdom to direct, if so painful a result shall in any wise be brought about, it shall be through no fault of mine.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

All the servants remarked that “the poor dear” from the very first bore up like a suffering martyr, and then discoursed upon the vanity of human hopes; and Mrs Downes, who was of a pious turn of mind, and went miles “per ’bus” on Sundays to be present at religious services in theatres, said that it was a “vale of tears,” and wiped one tear out of her eye, looked at it, wrapped it up very carefully in her handkerchief, and put it in her pocket, as if fully aware of the fact that it was a sympathetic pearl.
— from Lady Maude's Mania by George Manville Fenn

Anyway, mon ami,' he says, 'I don't pay any rent, so I must be called up.'
— from Under Fire: The Story of a Squad by Henri Barbusse

“It requires more than strength, padre,” Armstrong replied, seriously; “it requires faith in myself, which at present is sadly lacking.”
— from The Spell by William Dana Orcutt

The young Dauphin Louis took the nominal lead of the national party, and ruled supreme in Paris in great ease and self-indulgence.
— from Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre — Complete by Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France