And certainly philosophy is no other than sophisticated poetry.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

But how about those cases where the persecutor is not of the same sex as the persecuted, where our explanation of a guard against homosexual libido is apparently contradicted?
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

The inconsistency of a god of vegetation subsisting upon the vegetation which he personifies is not one to strike the primitive mind.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

The opera had begun when we got in, and the first person I noticed on the stage was my dear Therese Palesi, whom I had left at Florence.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

When, in this case, the King has been brought to the sixth rank, it is better to place it, not on the same file, but on the one next to it towards the centre.
— from Chess Fundamentals by José Raúl Capablanca

The talmudic writings teem with passages implying not only the superior sanctity, but even the imperative duty, of marriage.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

you may be farther convinced if I proceed to demonstrate what I formerly hinted at, namely, that that ultimate happiness which religion proposes is no other than some sort of madness.
— from In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts by Desiderius Erasmus

p. 620.).—If the song referring to Barrel's regiment was written about 1747, it was not original, but a parody or adaptation of one in The Devil to Pay , performed as a ballad opera in 1731; and which still maintains its place, if not on the stage, in recent editions of the "acting drama."
— from Notes and Queries, Number 221, January 21, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

[205] On the meeting of Parliament in November of the same year Newcastle at once moved to repeal it.
— from Lord Chatham, His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of

Protection is needed on the south-west against the winds as well as on the north-east.
— from The Book of Pears and Plums; With Chapters on Cherries and Mulberries by Edward Bartrum

With one it is the joint resolution of 1816 which gave the authority; with another, it is the law of 1820; with a third, it is the general superintending power of the President; and this last argument, since it resolves itself into mere power, without stopping to point out the sources of that power, is not only the shortest, but in truth the most just.
— from The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Edwin Percy Whipple

For these words, "I am the Lord thy God," and the like, are on purpose put in, not only to show us whom we should fear, but also to beget, maintain, and increase in us that fear that is due from us to that "glorious and fearful name, the Lord our God" (Deut 28:58).
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

His present problem involved nothing of this sort.
— from Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War by Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright) Stephenson

Purim is not only the Sacæa, sacrifice and all, but is also connected with the 'Ride of the Beardless One,' in which there was no sacrifice.
— from Magic and Religion by Andrew Lang

The king, with him, is to be always the father of his people; which is tantamount to saying, that the people are to be always children, and in a condition of tutelage; voluntary, if possible: if not, of tutelage still.
— from The Ancien Régime by Charles Kingsley

I will lead, and do you follow with care, for the path is none o’ the safest.
— from Charlie to the Rescue by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne