There you see his sharp reactions; the reflection of his hopes, his disappointments, his shifts from untenable positions to positions possible after defeat.
— from The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl

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We know that at this time Hellenizing influences did infuse themselves largely into Judaism: and what more natural 148 than that among these the Pythagorean philosophy and discipline should have recommended itself to a section of the Jewish people?
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

H2 anchor Chapter 3.XXII.—How Panurge patrocinates and defendeth the Order of the Begging Friars.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

He was turned out of his office in 1679 on account of his action in connection with the Popish Plot, and died November 23rd of the same year.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

If a single real act of will were to come into consciousness, through actual personal pressure and danger from the object, then the individual will thus actually influenced would at once [pg 262] gain the upper hand, the peace of contemplation would become impossible, the impression of the sublime would be lost, because it yields to the anxiety, in which the effort of the individual to right itself has sunk every other thought.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Immediately after this, the Rose frigate, under the command of Captain Andross, sailed up the Penobscot, plundered and destroyed Castine's house and fort, and sailed away with all his arms and goods.
— from Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses by Frederic S. (Frederic Swartwout) Cozzens

There were others present, probably a dozen in all, and among them Jim Laurance, who had come with a great deal of misgiving and scepticism on receipt of a letter from Simpson advising him of an opportunity of getting in on the ground floor right under the scoops of a dredging proposition.
— from The Stampeder by Samuel Alexander White

Claude learned that he was a half-witted brother of the Chief Steward, a potato peeler and dish-washer in the galley.
— from One of Ours by Willa Cather

The enforcement of these laws was called for by citizen after citizen in the public press, as demanded by "every principle of justice, humanity, policy and interest," and particularly on the ground that if the border states were drained of slaves they would be transferred from the pro-slavery to the anti-slavery group in politics.[47]
— from American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips

These Mendaïtes have in fact been identified with the Nabateans , who are mentioned as late as the tenth century 290 of our era, as a race purely pagan, and distinct from Jews, Christians, and Mohammedans.
— from Lectures on the Science of Language by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

Breakfast done, they bequeathed the consoling information for Algernon that they were off to hear a popular preacher, and departed.
— from The Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Complete by George Meredith