The public can facilitate this acquisition, by establishing in every parish or district a little school, where children maybe taught for a reward so moderate, that even a common labourer may afford it; the master being partly, but not wholly, paid by the public; because, if he was wholly, or even principally, paid by it, he would soon learn to neglect his business.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

So all in all, the results are very encouraging, only you should certainly not draw any particular conclusions as all preliminary proceedings begin in the same way and it was only the way they developed further that would show what the value of these preliminary proceedings has been.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

THE END OF MANY THINGS Early April slipped by in a haze—a haze of long evenings on the club veranda with the graphophone playing “Poor Butterfly” inside... for “Poor Butterfly” had been the song of that last year.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

Passion has a language of its own, and poets and orators must doubtless be permitted to denote by the word "slavery" the position of subjects of a state who labor under civil disabilities or are excluded from the exercise of political power; but in sociological study things ought to have their right names, and those names should, as far as possible, be uniformly employed.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

In these several schools let there be dwellings for teachers, who shall be brought from foreign parts by pay, and let them teach those who attend the schools the art of war and the art of music, and the children shall come not only if their parents please, but if they do not please; there shall be compulsory education, as the saying is, of all and sundry, as far as this is possible; and the pupils shall be regarded as belonging to the state rather than to their parents.
— from Laws by Plato

I will now tell you (continued he) what I have never told you before, that three times I have received intimations from the queen's brother, to assassinate all the white prisoners privately; but I would not do it.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

The concept of freedom is meant to actualise in the world of sense the purpose proposed by its laws, and consequently nature must be so thought that the conformity to law of its form, at least harmonises with the possibility of the purposes to be effected in it according to laws of freedom.—There must, therefore, be a ground of the unity of the supersensible, which lies at the 14 basis of nature, with that which the concept of freedom practically contains; and the concept of this ground, although it does not attain either theoretically or practically to a knowledge of the same, and hence has no peculiar realm, nevertheless makes possible the transition from the mode of thought according to the principles of the one to that according to the principles of the other.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

But partly, perhaps, because it is by his generosity that I am now free, I would rather not be other than a little rigid.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

Accordingly that he, being aware of that danger, had come down with armed soldiers; not that he would molest any peaceable person, but in order to punish suitably to the majesty of the government persons disturbing the tranquillity of the state.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

He had come down in a carriage, the boy said, having a servant with him, and together they had put poor Bessy into the vehicle, whether she would or not.
— from The Forgery; or, Best Intentions. by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

The original object was not only in itself a democratic ideal rather than a political possibility, but it was also quite as obnoxious to the plebeian aristocracy into whose hands the tribunate necessarily fell, and quite as incompatible with the new organization which originated in the equalization of the orders and had if possible a still more decided aristocratic hue than that which preceded it, as it was obnoxious to the gentile nobility and incompatible with the patrician consular constitution.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

As I did so de Belin said: 'Well, have you changed your plans?' 'Partly, but I think I shall go back to my lodging.'
— from The Chevalier d'Auriac by S. (Sidney) Levett Yeats

praecellens = surpassing . PRO-, PROD-, = before, in front of, forth .
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

“I am not the rose,” said the flower in the Persian poem, “but I have lived near the rose.”
— from Rattlin the Reefer by Edward Howard

Another mode of propelling the puck which is at present permissible, but is in danger of being ruled out, is "lifting."
— from My Strange Rescue, and Other Stories of Sport and Adventure in Canada by J. Macdonald (James Macdonald) Oxley

I must now quote another of Mr. Watts-Dunton’s East Anglian poems, partly because it depicts the weird charm of the Norfolk coast, and partly because it illustrates that sympathy between the poet and the lower p. 82 animals which I have already noted.
— from Theodore Watts-Dunton: Poet, Novelist, Critic by James Douglas