Ay, and hold you there still, good Mr. By-ends; for, for my part, I can count him but a fool, that, having the liberty to keep what he has, shall be so unwise as to lose it.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come Delivered under the similitude of a dream, by John Bunyan by John Bunyan

In treating of the subject in Book ix, he proposes to leave for the most part the methods of procedure to a younger generation of legislators; the procedure in capital causes he determines himself.
— from Laws by Plato

The earl replies, "My inclination is to go back to my estate in England; but if I cannot get help from you for that purpose, I will agree to help you with all the power I can command in England, if you will go there with the Danish army, and win the country, as Canute, your mother's brother, did.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

[?] into presentations of sense; it can show how the time-relations of the sensations and percepts in consciousness correspond to the objective relations in time of the stimulations.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

“Is it possible,” I cried, clasping my hands, “that such a trivial incident could give rise to such a resolution in you?”
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Among other beautiful things he said: “ The sentiment of charity , MORE PREVALENT IN CATHOLIC COUNTRIES THAN IN OTHERS, and the thought of Him who, influenced by that same feeling, sacrificed himself for humanity, moves (sic) us to compassion over the misfortunes of our kind and to render thanks that in this country , so scourged by cyclones, there are not enacted scenes so desolating as that which the inhabitants of the United States mus have witnessed!”
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

When I expressed my surprize that the accuser should persist in charging Clinker, without taking the least notice of the real robber who stood before him, and to whom, indeed, Humphry bore not the smallest resemblance; the constable (who was himself a thief-taker) gave me to understand, that Mr Martin was the best qualified for business of all the gentlemen on the road he had ever known; that he had always acted on his own bottom, without partner or correspondent, and never went to work but when he was cool and sober; that his courage and presence of mind never failed him; that his address was genteel, and his behaviour void of all cruelty and insolence; that he never encumbered himself with watches or trinkets, nor even with bank-notes, but always dealt for ready money, and that in the current coin of the kingdom; and that he could disguise himself and his horse in such a manner, that, after the action, it was impossible to recognize either the one or the other—‘This great man (said he) has reigned paramount in all the roads within fifty miles of London above fifteen months, and has done more business in that time, than all the rest of the profession put together; for those who pass through his hands are so delicately dealt with, that they have no desire to give him the least disturbance; but for all that, his race is almost run—he is now fluttering about justice, like a moth about a candle—there are so many lime-twigs laid in his way, that I’ll bet a cool hundred, he swings before Christmas.’
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Under these circumstances the social power is constantly changing hands, because it is subordinate to the power of the people, which is too apt to forget the maxims of wisdom and of foresight in the consciousness of its strength: hence arises its danger; and thus its vigor, and not its impotence, will probably be the cause of its ultimate destruction.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Of Cilicia without the Taurus one part is called Cilicia Tracheia, the rugged; the other, Cilicia Pedias, the flat or plain country.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

For my part, I cannot conceive upon what data they have founded such an accusation.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

SAFETY PRECAUTIONS IN CHILD CARE.
— from Motion Pictures 1960-1969: Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

It seems sufficiently frantic that such a thing should have been said by one European of another, or even of a Red Indian, if Red Indians had occupied anything like the place of the Irish then and since; if there were to be a Red Indian Lord Chief Justice and a Red Indian Commander-in-Chief, if the Red Indian Party in Congress, containing first-rate orators and fashionable novelists, could have turned Presidents in and out; if half the best troops of the country were trained with the tomahawk and half the best journalism of the capital written in picture-writing, if later, by general consent, the Chief known as Pine in the Twilight, was the best living poet, or the Chief Thin Red Fox, the ablest living dramatist.
— from The Crimes of England by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

"Halsey," I said when he sauntered in, "is there a policeman in Casanova?" "Constable," he said laconically.
— from The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Red-Bill Productions, Inc. CHARTROOSE CABOOSE.
— from Motion Pictures 1960-1969: Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

The picture is certainly charming.
— from Hodge and His Masters by Richard Jefferies

Communications ::Sao Tome and Principe Telephones - main lines in use: 7,700 (2008) country comparison to the world: 208 Telephones - mobile cellular: 49,000 (2008) country comparison to the world: 194 Telephone system: general assessment: local telephone network of adequate quality with most lines connected to digital switches domestic: combined fixed-line and mobile-cellular teledensity approaching 30 telephones per 100 persons international: country code - 239; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2008) Radio broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 5, shortwave 1 (2001) Television broadcast stations: 2 (2001) Internet country code: .st
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

That night I passed in close communion [Pg 77] with myself, strengthening my soul to meet whatever might be before me, and rousing my energies to seize every opportunity to escape from the hands of such blood-thirsty fiends.
— from The Sufferings and Escape of Capt. Chas. H. Brown From an Awful Imprisonment by Chilian Convicts by Brown, Charles H., captain of the bark Florida

These were the three pictures produced by Reynolds for Boydell’s “Shakespeare;” their painting is closely connected with our story.
— from Sir Edwin Landseer by Frederic George Stephens

The last individuals taken, to the number of four or five, were brought into the town quite naked, were put into close confinement, and I was informed that there they died.
— from Travels in Brazil by Henry Koster