[155] But a certain kind of evil is as difficult to find as what we call good; and often on this account such particular evil gets passed off as good.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

[Pg 437] of gods, not of false, i.e. of impious and proud gods, who, being deprived of His unchangeable and freely communicated light, and so reduced to a kind of poverty-stricken power, eagerly grasp at their own private privileges, and seek divine honours from their deluded subjects; but of the pious and holy gods, who are better pleased to submit themselves to one, than to subject many to themselves, and who would rather worship God than be worshipped as God.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

When she was half-way she stopped, and said mournfully: “Marse Tom, I nussed you when you was a little baby, en I raised you all by myself tell you was ’most a young man; en now you is young en rich, en I is po’ en gitt’n ole, en I come heah b’lievin’
— from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

He had espoused a daughter of the Madrecha, but the grant of Desuri and its lands [29] in perpetuity easily gained him to the cause of Prithiraj.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

We know what put English gold in his pocket.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Yes, perfectly easy; grassed nearly to the summit, which was, as it were, an open path between two glaciers, from which an inconsiderable stream came tumbling down over rough but very possible hillsides, till it got down to the level of the great river, and formed a flat where there was grass and a small bush of stunted timber.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

He described to her how newts, during the breeding season, live in the water, subsisting upon tadpoles, insect larvae, and crustaceans; how, later, they make their way to the land and eat slugs and worms; and how the newly born newt has three pairs of long, plumlike, external gills.
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

kai mên êdê kai hê alloiôtikê dynamis exeurêtai mêd' autê pros Erasistratou gegrammenê.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

And now to conclude: From what we have been able to learn, very slight differences have been found in various spectra of the position of the line representing the unknown substance, but this can cause very little doubt of its always being the same, as spectra often contain several lines of hydrogen, owing most probably to combinations with other substances; and if the ether is the primitive chemical element, there may be slight differences in the position of its line, as shown in all the phases in which we seem to have found it, but they must be slight as compared with the hydrogen lines, because even these must be in some measure, perhaps even great, influenced by the unfailing and inevitable mixture of the ether in their composition.
— from New Theories in Astronomy by Willam Stirling

"You don't mean that some of your pretty extra girls have eloped with some of your dashing cowboy soldiers, do you?
— from The Moving Picture Girls in War Plays Or, The Sham Battles at Oak Farm by Laura Lee Hope

[303] Those pale eyes gleamed; for Isabel Joy had tasted the noisy flattery of sympathetic and of adverse crowds, and her being hungered for it again; the desire of it had become part of her nature.
— from The Regent by Arnold Bennett

At one time or another, and in some connection or another, practically every geologist of considerable experience has found it necessary to testify on geologic matters in court.
— from The Economic Aspect of Geology by C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Leith

“Perhaps each generation says it of the next.”
— from The Long Vacation by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

At the beginning of April, 1933, the following Declaration, signed by 21 Protestant ministers, was addressed to "various Protestant Ecclesiastical groups in French-speaking Switzerland": "Moved by the present situation of the German Jews, and unable to understand how the authorities, otherwise attentive to moral values, can ignore the right of freedom of conscience, and of work, as well as security to every human being, we, the undersigned, think that the time has come to draw the attention of Christians to the serious implications in an attitude which is the very negation of the evangelical spirit; a spirit which is synonymous with love, freedom and mutual assistance.
— from The Grey Book A collection of protests against anti-semitism and the persecution of Jews issued by non-Roman Catholic churches and church leaders during Hitlers rule by Johan M. Snoek

An old man gave me some comfort by saying, that I was not included in this imprecation, which was to fall only on the troops; and a good deal of it was realized at the above described passage of the river, where so many lost their lives and goods, while I, poor Evliya, God be thanked for it!
— from Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in the Seventeenth Century, Vol. II by Evliya Çelebi

Niccolò is looking rather to [Pg 122] the left; his keen and hawklike countenance, and his piercing eyes, deep set and quivering within pendulous eyelids, give a sense of invincible logic and penetration.
— from Donatello, by Lord Balcarres by Crawford, David Lindsay, Earl of