in the Bodleian. One of these was the following memorandum, which shows pretty plainly Pepys’s opinion of Harbord:— “That about the time of Mr. Pepys’s surrender of his employment of Secretary of the Admiralty, Capt. Russell and myself being in discourse about Mr. Pepys, Mr. Russell delivered himself in these or other words to this purport: That he thought it might be of advantage to both, if a good understanding were had between his brother Harbord and Mr. Pepys, asking me to propose it to Mr. Pepys, and he would to his brother, which I agreed to, and went immediately from him to Mr. Pepys, and telling him of this discourse, he gave me readily this answer in these very words: That he knew of no service
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

They represented to Constantine, that, not contented with all the duties of a commander, he had exposed his own person with an excess of valor which almost degenerated into rashness; and they conjured him for the future to pay more regard to the preservation of a life in which the safety of Rome and of the empire was involved.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

"—Evolution by mechanism.—Evolution by ideal attraction.—If species are evolved they cannot guide evolution.—Intrusion of optimism.—Evolution according to Hegel.—The conservative interpretation.—The radical one.—Megalomania.—Chaos in the theory of mind.—Origin of self-consciousness.—The notion of spirit.—The notion of sense.—Competition between the two.—The rise of scepticism Pages 95 - 125 CHAPTER V PSYCHOLOGY Mind reading not science.—Experience a reconstruction.—The honest art of education.—Arbitrary readings of the mind.—Human nature appealed to rather than described.—Dialectic in psychology.—Spinoza on the passions.—A principle of estimation cannot govern events.—Scientific psychology a part of biology.—Confused attempt to detach the psychic element.—Differentia of the psychic.—Approach to irrelevant sentience.—Perception represents things in their practical relation to the body.—Mind the existence in which form becomes actual.—Attempt at idealistic physics.—Association not efficient.—- It describes coincidences.—Understanding is based on instinct and expressed in dialectic.—Suggestion a fancy name for automatism, and will another.—Double attachment of mind to nature.—Is the subject-matter of psychology absolute being?—Sentience is representable only in fancy.—The conditions and objects of sentience, which are not sentience, are also real.—Mind knowable and important in so far as it represents other things
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

The prophet Micah, representing Christ under the figure of a great mountain, speaks thus: "It shall come to pass in the last days, that the manifested mountain of the Lord shall be prepared on the tops of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall hasten unto it.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

“That, if it had been my good fortune to come into the world a struldbrug , as soon as I could discover my own happiness, by understanding the difference between life and death, I would first resolve, by all arts and methods, whatsoever, to procure myself riches.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

Another aspect Crichtoun showed, As through its portal Marmion rode; But yet ’twas melancholy state Received him at the outer gate; For none were in the castle then, But women, boys, or aged men.
— from Marmion: A Tale Of Flodden Field by Walter Scott

The poor man really has a stake in the country.
— from The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Thanks to the generous assistance of the St. Petersburg climate, the malady progressed more rapidly than could have been expected, and when the doctor arrived, he found, on feeling the sick man’s pulse, that there was nothing to be done, except to prescribe a poultice, so that the patient might not be left entirely without the beneficent aid of medicine.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

*Porter, General, M.P. for Stockbridge, i. 149 Portland, Duke of, i. 231; ii. 18 , 34 , 305; Lady Malmesbury's opinion of, ii. 306 ; Lord Sheffield's host at Bulstrode, ii. 329; on Fox's conduct, ii. 351; supports Alien Bill, ii. 363; enthralled by Fox, ii. 367, 368 Pouschkin, Mouschkin, Russian Ambassador in London, i. 227 *Powell, Harcourt, M.P. for Newtown, i. 89 Powell, Mr., his offer to pay Fox's debts, i. 198 *Powney, Portlock, M.P. for Windsor, i. 388 *Powys, M.P. for Northamptonshire, i. 331; ii. 97 Poyntz, Mrs., i. 33 *Poyntz, Stephen, i. 33 *Pratt, Lord Chief Justice, i. 51 Prevôt, Lieut.-Colonel, i. 81 Prevôt, Madame, i. 81 Price, Dr. Richard, ii. 210; Chairman of the Revolution Society, ii.
— from Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 2 (of 2) by Edward Gibbon

"Haven't I yet proved my right to the title of man in the house?"
— from Under the Country Sky by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond

This they considered a conclusive proof that adulteration, if conducted upon the principles of moderation, was not detrimental to the coatings of the human stomach, which, they said, was being ruined by the extreme care that was being taken of it, until indeed there was a good chance of that pampered and petted member ruling the whole body in a most tyrannical manner.
— from The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day by Richard Clynton

Besides what I said from my own Observation, to prove how extensive a Trade we might have in those Seas, I shall add the following Observations from M. de Beauchesne ; who says, that tho he was look’d upon as a Free-Booter, and that the then Spanish Governours on those Coasts were forbid to trade or suffer the People to trade with any but their own Subjects in those Seas, and that at Valdivia and other places they fir’d at him when he approach’d their Harbours, and deny’d so much as to sell him any Provisions, or to suffer him to wood or water; yet at Rica some particular Persons traded with him to the Value of 50000 Crowns, and told him, That that place was not so proper for them to act so manifestly contrary to Law, but if he went to a place more retir’d, they would buy all he had, tho both his Ships were full of Goods.
— from A Cruising Voyage Around the World by Woodes Rogers

On parting, Meek received a ticket to the Relay House, with many expressions of regret from the agent that he could ticket him no farther.
— from Eleven Years in the Rocky Mountains and Life on the Frontier Also a History of the Sioux War, and a Life of Gen. George A. Custer with Full Account of His Last Battle by Frances Fuller Victor

Nor can we doubt that the long train of the peacock and the long tail and wing-feathers of the Argus pheasant must render them a more easy prey to any prowling tiger-cat than would otherwise be the case.
— from The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. II (1st Edition) by Charles Darwin

If any one could at that moment have told the young barrister that so simple a thing as his cousin's brief letter would one day come to be a link in that terrible chain of evidence afterward to be slowly forged in the only criminal case in which he was ever to be concerned, perhaps Mr. Robert Audley would have lifted his eyebrows a little higher than usual.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

There were also built, about the same time, a block house surrounded with a strong stockade on the hill on Princess Street, on the lot formerly owned by the late Mr. Jacob Ritter; a small redan on Ordnance Street; a battery at Mississauga Point; a block house near the present Marine Railway; one on Stuart’s or Murney’s Point; another at Snake Island; one which stood until recently, near the present new court house, with those now standing, one of them on the hill to the east of the city, and the other at the west end of Wellington Street.
— from History of the settlement of Upper Canada (Ontario,) with special reference to the Bay Quinté by William Canniff