It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

The Nasamones were a people of Libya, near the Syrtes, or quicksands, who subsisted by plundering the numerous wrecks on their coasts. 15.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

It rained the greater part of last night and continued untill 6 A.M. our grass tent is impervious to the rain.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

We have been saturated with the idea that pain, physical suffering, and disease, are a part of life; necessary evils which can not be avoided.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

—For in the account which Hafen Slawkenbergius gives the world of his motives and occasions for writing, and spending so many years of his life upon this one work—towards the end of his prolegomena, which by-the-bye should have come first—but the bookbinder has most injudiciously placed it betwixt the analytical contents of the book, and the book itself—he informs his reader, that ever since he had arrived at the age of discernment, and was able to sit down cooly, and consider within himself the true state and condition of man, and distinguish the main end and design of his being;—or—to shorten my translation, for Slawkenbergius's book is in Latin, and not a little prolix in this passage—ever since I understood, quoth Slawkenbergius, any thing—or rather what was what—and could perceive that the point of long noses had been too loosely handled by all who had gone before;—have I Slawkenbergius, felt a strong impulse, with a mighty and unresistible call within me, to gird up myself to this undertaking.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

The poems of life are great, but there must be the poems of the purports of life, not only in itself, but beyond itself.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

[36] One of the oldest parts of London, north of St. Paul's Cathedral, called "Little Britain" because the Dukes of Brittany used to live there.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

And thirdly (which is the main reason), the exuberant and riotous prodigality of life naturally forces the mind more powerfully upon the antagonist thought of death, and the wintry sterility of the grave.
— from Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey

Fourthly, the variations in the price of labour not only do not correspond, either in place or time, with those in the price of provisions, but they are frequently quite opposite.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

[721] Misinformation of this sort was given to Charles VI of France by returning pilgrims, [722] and, a century and a quarter later, to Frances I. [723] The early idea of the Osmanlis as an Asiatic people, of large numbers, [724] who conquered Asia Minor and then overthrew the Byzantine Empire, [725] has persisted to this day.
— from The Foundation of the Ottoman Empire; a history of the Osmanlis up to the death of Bayezid I (1300-1403) by Herbert Adams Gibbons

A lineal descendant of Samuel Canfield—in the person of Lawrence Northrop—belongs to the present membership of this church.
— from Two Centuries of New Milford Connecticut An Account of the Bi-Centennial Celebration of the Founding of the Town Held June 15, 16, 17, and 18, 1907, With a Number of Historical Articles and Reminiscences by Various

“It is very extraordinary,” says he, “that this sinless perfection is pretended to by persons among whom we should least of all expect to find it; persons of low, narrow, contracted minds; who discover very little of the genuine spirit of the Gospel, humility, meekness, and charity; and then seem never once to suspect themselves capable of any such thing as spiritual pride, [p.
— from Twenty-four Discourses On Some of the Important and Interesting Truths, Duties, and Institutions, of the Gospel, and the General Excellency of the Christian Religion; Calculated for the People of God of Every Communion, Particularly for the Benefit of Pious Families, and the Instruction of All in the Things Which Concern Their Salvation by Nathan Perkins

To see how the logicians have regarded their science and its relation to philosophy, see; Keynes's "Formal Logic" (London, 1894), Introduction; Hobhouse's "Theory of Knowledge" (London, 1896), Introduction; Aikins's "The Principles of Logic" (N.Y., 1902), Introduction; and Creighton's "Introductory Logic" (N.Y., 1898), Preface.
— from An Introduction to Philosophy by George Stuart Fullerton

The honorable Judges Ford and Shafer agreed with them and denied the writ, saying among other things: It is the duty of the Mayor and Police Department to preserve the peace, and it must be sometimes necessary for that purpose to prevent the congregating in one place of large numbers of people such as might get beyond the control of the Police Department, and it must be left to the reasonable discretion of the officers charged with keeping the peace when such intervention is made.
— from The Great Steel Strike and its Lessons by William Z. Foster

P o litézza, neatnesse, cleanlinesse, finenesse.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

That they are of the colour of a withered leaf is not surprising; for they are actually composed of a piece of leaf; not, however, cut out from the whole thickness, but artfully separated from the upper layer, as a person might separate one of the leaves of paper from a sheet of pasteboard.
— from Insect Architecture by James Rennie

Froebel , Aus Amer. , tom. i., p. 287. 'Chorotega tribe of the plains of Leon, Nicaragua.' Ludewig's Ab.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 1, Wild Tribes The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 1 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

And he carried his writing-materials indoors, to the billiard-room, a northern room, looking into the big square court, where the light was colourless, and the only perfume on the air was a ghost-like perfume of last night's tobacco-smoke.
— from The Lady Paramount by Henry Harland