Political democracy, with its belief in the right of individual desire and purpose to take part in readapting even the fundamental constitution of society, was foreign to it.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

Democratic politicians and office seekers say to reactionary Democratic voters that the Democratic party is reactionary enough to express reactionary views; and they say to progressive Democrats that the Democratic party is progressive enough to express progressive views.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

Indeed, few wish to enter; for the putrid infection reaches even to the Oeil-de-Boeuf; so that 'more than fifty fall sick, and ten die.'
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

It is scarcely necessary to say that wherever I speak of poets I refer exclusively to that rare phenomenon the great true poet.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Most of the Ships from Guiney , of their own Nation, and frequently those of ours, call at one or other of these Islands, to recruit with fresh Provisions, and take in Water, which on the Coast are not so good, nor so conveniently to come by: Their own Ships likewise, when they touch here, are obliged to leave the King his Custom for their Slaves, which is always in Gold, at so much a Head, without any Deduction at Brasil , for the Mortality that may happen afterwards; this by being a constant Bank to pay off the civil and military Charges of the Government, prevents the Inconveniency of Remittances, and keeps both it and Princes Isle rich enough to pay ready Money for every Thing they want of Europeans .
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

It had happened in his youth that whole bundles of manifestoes and of numbers of The Bell had passed through his hands, and although he had been afraid even to open them, yet he would have considered it absolutely contemptible to refuse to distribute them—and there are such people in Russia even to this day.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In the first place Isabel rose eagerly to the sense of her shades; in the second Madame Merle implied that there was a great deal more to say; and it was clear in the third that for a person to speak to one without ceremony of one’s near relations was an agreeable sign of that person’s intimacy with one’s self.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

This ceremony was performed in relation even to private houses, as we may learn from the book of Deuteronomy.
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

And she had difficulty, too, in remembering her poor, in remembering even that there were such things as poor.
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

I don’t know why one slight set of impressions should be more particularly associated with a place than another, though I believe this obtains with most people, in reference especially to the associations of their childhood.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

A bare allusion to these wrongs is sickening; but, while the gangrene of prostitution is rapidly extending through society, it becomes an imperative duty to examine its causes completely and impartially.
— from The History of Prostitution: Its Extent, Causes, and Effects throughout the World by William W. Sanger

"Croly," says H.C. Robinson ( Diary , 1869, i. 412), "is a fierce-looking Irishman, very lively in conversation, and certainly has considerable talents as a writer; his eloquence, like his person, is rather energetic than eloquent" (hence the epithet "Cambyses," i.e. "King Cambyses' vein" in var. iii.).
— from The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

This phenomenon is rarer even than sentiment in an actress.
— from The Blue Duchess by Paul Bourget

As a rule, in the later periods, inquisitors rather endeavored to avoid relaxation and, while they were callous, they were not apt to be unnecessarily cruel.
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 3 by Henry Charles Lea

Everything about the place is ripping except the drilling master and the dumplings on Mondays, which are both as vile as vile can be.
— from Tom, Dick and Harry by Talbot Baines Reed

He claimed a proficiency in Russian equal to 1 year of schooling A13-441 and that he had completed high school by correspondence with an average grade of 85 percent.
— from Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by United States. Warren Commission

"Nothing to the point," I replied, "except that he enjoined silence on me, and said, 'A youngster must not be too inquisitive; he must see to it merely that he understands his lesson, but must not overwhelm his teacher with questions.'"
— from Solomon Maimon: An Autobiography. by Solomon Maimon

Sold, five years ago, for an amount that would not now be more than sufficient to pay its employés a week's wages, its property is roughly estimated to be worth $15,000,000.
— from Wonderland; or, Alaska and the Inside Passage With a Description of the Country Traversed by the Northern Pacific Railroad by John Hyde

43 Every person in Russia entitled to hold land is known to the government, as well as the number of peasants on his estate; and, upon receiving notice of an imperial order to that effect, the numbers required by the levy are marched forthwith from every part of the empire to the places of rendezvous appointed.
— from Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. 2 (of 2) by John L. Stephens

After days of fatigue, their nights were often passed in restless efforts to save themselves from freezing.
— from The Mormons: A Discourse Delivered Before the Historical Society of Pennsylvania by Thomas L. (Thomas Leiper) Kane