Though, after all, everyone does do that; people do pride themselves on their diseases, and I do, may be, more than anyone.
— from Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

PROLATE, pronounce drawlingly. PROPER, of good appearance, handsome; own, particular. PROPERTIES, stage necessaries.
— from Every Man in His Humor by Ben Jonson

Therefore is it that, after the manner and fashion of your other worships, I defer, protract, delay, prolong, intermit, surcease, pause, linger, suspend, prorogate, drive out, wire-draw, and shift off the time of giving a definitive sentence, to the end that the suit or process, being well fanned and winnowed, tossed and canvassed to and fro, narrowly, precisely, and nearly garbled, sifted, searched, and examined, and on all hands exactly argued, disputed, and debated, may, by succession of time, come at last to its full ripeness and maturity.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Is seems also to possess diuretic properties.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

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— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

Farther, Plato defines philosophy to be the meditation of death, because the one performs the same office with the other; namely, withdraws the mind from all visible and corporeal objects; therefore while the soul does patiently actuate the several organs and members of the body, so long is a man accounted of a good and sound disposition; but when the soul, weary of her confinement, struggles to break jail, and fly beyond her cage of flesh and blood, then a man is censured at least for being magotty and crack-brained; nay, if there be any defect in the external organs it is then termed downright madness.
— from In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts by Desiderius Erasmus

SYN: Entire, complete, thoroughgoing, powerful, drastic, perfect, [See COMPLETE and ENTIRE].
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Yet just that is what the old parties do prevent.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

Indeed, the two leading ideas which pervade the Indian poem, viz., that there is no duality ( advaita ) and no becoming ( ajāti ), are, as Professor Deussen points out, identical with those of the Greek philosopher.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

To them must be added the Papal Nuncio, at that date Monsignore Macchi, Archbishop of Nisibi, afterwards Cardinal, and remarkable for his long pensive nose; and another Monsignore, whose titles ran as follow: Abbate Palmieri, domestic Prelate, one of the seven Prothonotaries sharing in the Holy See, Canon of the glorious Liberian Basilica, and advocate of the Saints, postulatore Dei Santi , an office relating to matters of canonization, and meaning very nearly, Referendary to the department of Paradise.
— from Les Misérables, v. 3/5: Marius by Victor Hugo

When his high patron died, Philaret the Less was not so happy in his desert as of yore; for Innocent, the new Metropolite, was a real missionary of his faith, and not a man to look with favor on monks in masquerade.
— from Free Russia by William Hepworth Dixon

—Once again I am in this great Paris, doubtless populous, and yet so empty for me.
— from Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino (Afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan), 1836-1840 by Dino, Dorothée, duchesse de

On artistic genius and its creative process, see H. Taine, The Philosophy of Art, Part ii.; P. Souriau, L'Imagination de l'artiste; G. Seailles, Essai sur la genie dans l'art; E. Grosse, Kunstwissenschaftliche Studien iii.; Arreat, Psychologie du peintre; L. Dauriac, Essai sur l'esprit musical.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

The ‘Irish town’ which exists outside the old bounds of Dublin, Limerick, Kilkenny, Clonmel, and other places, doubtless perpetuates the memory of a time when the natives congre [Pg 74] gated in the neighbourhood of civic communities to which they did not belong.
— from Ireland under the Tudors, with a Succinct Account of the Earlier History. Vol. 1 (of 3) by Richard Bagwell

2. Studies of Traits of Individual Peoples: (1) Fouillée, A. Psychologie du peuple français.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

But you don't mean to say that you are going to pull down Pincote!"
— from In the Dead of Night: A Novel. Volume 1 (of 3) by T. W. (Thomas Wilkinson) Speight

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— from Fascinating San Francisco by Fred Brandt

"— Principes de Philosophie .
— from Hume (English Men of Letters Series) by Thomas Henry Huxley