I take pleasure in thanking Mr. Edward J. Wheeler, editor of Current Opinion , and Mr. Carl Hovey, editor of the Metropolitan Magazine , for permission to reprint them.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

103-112.) —— "Lines suggested by a Portrait in the Millais Exhibition."
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

In no place is this more evident than in the age we are now studying.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

It was, according to my opinion, quoth Pantagruel, to the end, first, that the fresh married folks should for the first year reap a full and complete fruition of their pleasures in their mutual exercise of the act of love, in such sort, that in waiting more at leisure on the production of posterity and propagating of their progeny, they might the better increase their race and make provision of new heirs.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

The news that takes an important place in the morning edition will be relegated to a small space in the late afternoon edition.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

And when we express that detestation against him to which he himself, in a little time, became insensible, it is not that we see any relations, of which he was ignorant; but that, for the rectitude of our disposition, we feel sentiments against which he was hardened from flattery and a long perseverance in the most enormous crimes.
— from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume

And I give order that the testimonial which they have given me, on account of my regard to that piety which I exercise toward all mankind, and out of regard to Caius Marcus Censorinus, together with the present decree, be proposed in that most eminent place which hath been consecrated to me by the community of Asia at Ancyra.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Lay this down, then, as a rule, that a great capacity, and lofty elevation of soul, which distinguishes itself most by despising and looking down with contempt on pain, is the most excellent of all things, and the more so if it does not depend on the people and does not aim at applause, but derives its satisfaction from itself.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

But the problem is the more easily disposed of because the occasion cannot arise when it could be to the state's interest to have the wise man do any of those things.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Though the qualities that affect our senses are, in the things themselves, so united and blended, that there is no separation, no distance between them; yet it is plain, the ideas they produce in the mind enter by the senses simple; and unmixed.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

These then, limiting ourselves to select specimens, are the principal participants in this musical evening: the Scops-owl, with his languorous solos; the Toad, that tinkler of sonatas; the Italian Cricket, who scrapes the first string of a violin; and the Green Grasshopper, who seems to beat a tiny steel triangle.
— from The Wonders of Instinct: Chapters in the Psychology of Insects by Jean-Henri Fabre

There was danger that Christologic speculation might break quite loose from historic tradition, and pass into the metaphysical extreme of Docetism.
— from The Unseen World, and Other Essays by John Fiske

He must keep enough on hand to buy a supply of papers in the morning, even if he were compelled to go to bed supperless.
— from Ben, the Luggage Boy; Or, Among the Wharves by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

I had a strong regard for him, because I thought he was tenderly attached to my son, and only desired to promote his advantage; but when I found that he was a treacherous person, who thought only of his own interest, and that, instead of carefully trying to preserve my son's honour, he plunged him into ruin by permitting him to give himself up to debauchery without seeming to perceive it, then my esteem for this artful priest was changed into disgust.
— from Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV. and of the Regency — Volume 03 by Orléans, Charlotte-Elisabeth, duchesse d'

Unsurveyed regions in the South Atlantic and Indian Ocean were to be covered and the route was planned so as to obtain a large number of observations of the progressive changes that have taken place in the magnetic elements.
— from Astronomy for Young Folks by Isabel Martin Lewis

He said: "A few years ago I accepted the election to the board of a certain literary society, because I hoped that the society could at some time be of use to me in helping obtain the production of my drama, and, despite my lack of interest, I took part in the meetings every Friday.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

Mr. Learmont was again plunged into the most excessive grief.
— from Ada, the Betrayed; Or, The Murder at the Old Smithy. A Romance of Passion by James Malcolm Rymer

Just as the end, at which the Church aims, is by far the noblest of ends, so its power is the most exalted of all powers, and cannot be held to be either inferior to the civil power or in any way subject to it.
— from Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886 by Various

Looking down on the ocean, the first object which presented itself to my eye, was a small one-masted shallop, which was buffeting the waves in a south-westerly direction.
— from A Voyage to the Moon With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians by George Tucker

Both were lionnes of the most formidable type, leaving a wake of ruin and disaster behind them, devouring fortunes with Brobdignagian voracity, plunging into the maddest extravagances.
— from In Vanity Fair: A Tale of Frocks and Femininity by Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd