εὐχαριστοῦντες] most naturally coordinated with the preceding participles and referred to the Colossians.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

Behind the house a yard extends for some twenty feet, a space inhabited by a happy family of pigs, poultry, and rabbits; the wood-shed is situated on the further side, and on the wall between the wood-shed and the kitchen window hangs the meat-safe, just above the place where the sink discharges its greasy streams.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

Rarely did that hour of the evening come, rarely did I wake at night, rarely did I look up at the moon, or stars, or watch the falling rain, or hear the wind, but I thought of his solitary figure toiling on, poor pilgrim, and recalled the words: ‘I’m a going to seek her, fur and wide.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Were I to say this pamphlet probably prevented a revolution, the reader would imagine I was in a dream.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

For it enables us to recognise in them an a priori principle, and raises them out of empirical psychology, in which otherwise they would remain buried amongst the feelings of gratification and grief (only with the unmeaning addition of being called finer feelings).
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

In popular feeling, where sentiment and observation must both make themselves felt somehow or other, the tendency is to imagine that love is an absolute, non-natural energy which, for some unknown reason, or for none at all, lights upon particular persons, and rests there eternally, as on its ultimate goal.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

This liturgy, transfused as it is with pagan philosophy and removed thereby from the Oriental directness and formlessness of the Bible, keeps for the most part its theological and patristic tone.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

The citizens reflect upon their present position and remember their past influence, with the melancholy uneasiness of men who suspect oppression: if they discover a law of the Union which is not unequivocally favorable to their interests, they protest against it as an abuse of force; and if their ardent remonstrances are not listened to, they threaten to quit an association which loads them with burdens whilst it deprives them of their due profits.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

When the evening was over, Anne could not but be amused at the idea of her coming to Lyme to preach patience and resignation to a young man whom she had never seen before; nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

While partisanship continues bitter and pronounced and supplies so much of motive to sentiment and action, it is not fair to hold public officials in charge of important trusts responsible for the best results in the performance of their duties, and yet insist that they shall rely in confidential and important places upon the work of those not only opposed to them in political affiliation, but so steeped in partisan prejudice and rancor that they have no loyalty to their chiefs and no desire for their success.
— from A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 3: Grover Cleveland, First Term by Grover Cleveland

This duty very naturally from the tzin's peculiar position and relation to the fugitive devolved upon him, and his next move was to be in the direction of the mountains in search of him.
— from A Prince of Anahuac: A Histori-traditional Story Antedating the Aztec Empire by James A. Porter

He lived near by the Parker place and recalls the events with great distinctness.
— from The Christiana Riot and the Treason Trials of 1851: An Historical Sketch by W. U. (William Uhler) Hensel

He has always been a practical patriot, always ready to work for Ireland by every honourable means that came to his hand, whether the means were those of moral or physical force.
— from The Life Story of an Old Rebel by John Denvir

It was no rapid passage, pierced and reclosed, that he desired to effect,—it was the wedge in the oak of war.
— from The Last of the Barons — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

The crowds who gather in modern towns to see a man in handcuffs led from a dingy van up the dingy court steps would have found a far keener relish in the public punishments which Chaucer saw on his way to and from work; fraudulent tradesmen in the pillory, with their putrid wares burning under their noses, or drinking wry-mouthed the corrupt wine which they had palmed off on the public; scolding wives in the somewhat milder “thewe”; sometimes a penitential procession all round the city, as in the case of the quack doctor and astrologer whose story is so vividly told by the good Monk of St. Alban’s.
— from Chaucer and His England by G. G. (George Gordon) Coulton

The magnitudes which have been mentioned in the preceding paragraphs all refer to observations taken with the eye, and are called visual magnitudes.
— from Lectures on Stellar Statistics by C. V. L. (Carl Vilhelm Ludwig) Charlier

Search the Scriptures with the aid of a Concordance, or good reference Bible, for the most pointed and practical parallel passages and references; they will wonderfully illuminate the lesson.
— from The Sabbath-School Index Pointing out the history and progress of Sunday-schools, with approved modes of instruction. by R. G. (Richard Gay) Pardee