(We may observe by the way, that the principle of the other, which is the principle of plurality and variation in the Timaeus, has nothing in common with the 'other' of the Sophist, which is the principle of determination.)
— from Timaeus by Plato

She chose for the motto of her pamphlet a verse in the thirteenth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles: “Behold, ye despisers, and wonder and perish!
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

Their experience, they said, did not confirm this: as a class, they had found landlords narrow-minded and selfish, very ignorant of the people, and very indifferent to them.
— from Luttrell Of Arran by Charles James Lever

Bending his knee gracefully before her, then, he made confession of his crime, declared his penitence, and, vowing, in the terms she had dictated, never to offend again, he stooped his head to kiss the paper crown which she held upon her knee.
— from One in a Thousand; or, The Days of Henri Quatre by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

They had been translated throughout the night, probably, and very ill translated they were, to judge by the extant copies.
— from The Mystery of Mary Stuart by Andrew Lang

Sometimes Merivale would take himself off to pay a visit in the town.
— from As It Was Written: A Jewish Musician's Story by Henry Harland

From Boccaccio to Marcel Prévost, all the novels, [411] poems, and verses invariably transmit the feeling of sexual love in its different forms.
— from The Kingdom of God is Within You; What is Art? by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Figures of plants are very inferior to those in the first edition.
— from The Old English Herbals by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde

He kept referring to the writing on the paper and vouchsafed information that the writing was made up of notes of a long-distance conversation between the woods and the New York offices of the Comas company.
— from Joan of Arc of the North Woods by Holman Day

To feel everything, to divine everything, to anticipate everything; to reproach without bringing affliction upon a tender heart; to make a present without pride; to double the value of a certain action by the way in which it is done; to flatter rather by actions than by words; to make oneself understood rather than to produce a vivid impression; to touch without striking; to make a look and the sound of the voice produce the effect of a caress; never to produce embarrassment; to amuse without offending good taste; always to touch the heart; to speak to the soul—this is all that women ask.
— from The Physiology of Marriage, Complete by Honoré de Balzac

His smaller poems are very inferior to those of Clare—but the Northamptonshire Peasant has written nothing in which all honest English hearts must delight, at all comparable with those truly rural compositions of the Suffolk shoemaker.
— from Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 1 by John Wilson