The departure for Cythera! exclaims Watteau; Lancret, the painter of plebeians, contemplates his bourgeois, who have flitted away into the azure sky; Diderot stretches out his arms to all these love idyls, and d’Urfé mingles druids with them.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

In what different ways does status ( a ) grow out of, and ( b ) prevent, the processes of personal competition and group competition?
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Just as the faculty of committing to memory long poems or plays can be developed, so can the faculty of remembering visual things.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

By a singularity which adhered to her systematic disposition, she took the vain precaution of proposing conditions; but the moment I knew the purchase, I no longer even heard them, but immediately consented to everything; and I doubt whether there is a man on the whole earth who would have been sincere or courageous enough to dispute terms, or one single woman who would have pardoned such a dispute.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

For God (by the foregoing Prop.) is not affected by any emotion of pleasure or pain, consequently (Def. of the Emotions, vi.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

The universal observation of mankind has been very fallacious, if the mere fact of being one of the community, and not being in a position of pronounced contrariety of interest to the public at large, is enough to insure the performance of a public duty, without either the stimulus or the restraint derived from the opinion of our fellow-creatures.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

In Kantian language, the will is autonomous ( i.e. prescribes to itself its own law) only when it is directed to a universal end; when it is guided by selfish passions, or particular considerations, it is heteronomous ( i.e. receives its law from something external to itself), and in bondage.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Without being armed they transact nothing, whether of public or private concernment.
— from Tacitus on Germany by Cornelius Tacitus

" The lieutenant-governor started and gazed for a moment at his niece, as if her girlish fantasies had struck upon some feeling in his own breast which all his policy or principles could not entirely subdue.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Noisy flocks of robins fluttered among the trees, eating the ripe, red yaupon berries, and now and then parties of pigeons circled round and round the house.
— from Beulah by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

Finally, it could collect the information necessary to a wise decision between our present policy of prohibiting combinations and the German policy of permitting them, subject to a policy of "watchful waiting" on the part of the government.
— from The Unpopular Review Vol. I January-June 1914 by Various

This home was in a large town, and my uncle a professor of philosophy, chemistry, geology, mineralogy, and many other ologies.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

The momentum of the wheel keeps it in motion for half a minute, and meantime the thread is drawn out by the operator from the pile of prepared cotton in her lap.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 1, Wild Tribes The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 1 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

Though Curio was allied to the party of Pompey, Cćsar won him over by paying his debts, [Footnote: The debts of this young man have been estimated as high as $2,500,000, and their vastness shows by contrast how wealthy private citizens sometimes became at this epoch.]
— from The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic by Arthur Gilman

Dr. George M. Dawson found in 1874 part of an ancient catlinite pipe on Pyramid Creek, about lat.
— from The Lost Atlantis and Other Ethnographic Studies by Wilson, Daniel, Sir

Touch and technology: Two paradigms of patient care.
— from Nursing as Caring: A Model for Transforming Practice by Savina O'Bryan Schoenhofer

[Rodolfo PARKER]; Democratic Convergence or CD [Ruben ZAMORA] (formerly United Democratic Center or CDU); Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front or FMLN [Medardo GONZALEZ]; National Conciliation Party or PCN [Ciro CRUZ ZEPEDA]; National Republican Alliance or ARENA
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

If a nation were only a contrivance to protect men in gathering gear, if territory meant only so many acres for the raising of crops, if power were of worth only as a police to prevent or punish crimes against person and property, then peace for the mere sake of peace were the one desirable thing for a people whose only history would be written in its cash-book.
— from The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays by James Russell Lowell