I think you will find it a pleasant change if after the dry phantasy of science I present to you a poetic representation of the economic contrast between narcism and being in love.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

The poor remains of the enormous city still furnished tolerable lodgings for his army: of provisions there was as yet abundance; and the invaders, like true Frenchmen, fitted up a theatre, and witnessed plays acted by performers sent from France; while the Emperor himself exhibited his equanimity by dating a decree, regulating the affairs of the Théâtre Français at Paris, from "the imperial headquarters in the Kremlin."
— from The History of Napoleon Buonaparte by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart

The assault, made upon him by Preston S. Brooks, a South-Carolina representative, for his famous speech on Kansas, had strengthened his hold upon his constituency, which was not merely the State of Massachusetts but the radical and progressive Republicans of the entire country.
— from Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by James Gillespie Blaine

He was Alabama’s first church historian, and rendered a lasting service to the state by his preserved record of the early churches of Alabama.
— from Makers and Romance of Alabama History by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Riley

The precise route of this expedition cannot now be stated.
— from The History of Cuba, vol. 1 by Willis Fletcher Johnson

A good father, a good husband, a good friend, he was sincerely attached to the Protestant religion of the English church, “not from indifference,” as he said himself of the nation at large, “but from zeal; not because he thought there was less religion in it, but because he knew there was more.”
— from The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 3 (of 7) by Arthur Thomas Malkin

The Precambrian rocks of the European continent consist largely of crystalline schists which in their general aspects recall those of the north-west Highlands of Scotland.
— from The Principles of Stratigraphical Geology by J. E. (John Edward) Marr

Nor can any pleasure resort of the English capital boast so long a history.
— from Inns and Taverns of Old London by Henry C. (Henry Charles) Shelley

His name is writ in the list of “our substantial citizens;” he has the courtship of men and the flattery of women; 458 the best pew in the church and the personal regard of the eloquent clergyman who in the name of Christ preaches the Gospel of Dives, and tones down into a meaningless flower of Eastern speech the stern metaphor of the camel and the needle’s eye.
— from Progress and Poverty, Volumes I and II An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth by Henry George

They were a tangible reality, however, and no delusion of the senses, and his ready mind took in the fact that someone had in an unaccountable manner rescued them from the burning express shed, and mysteriously restored them to the proper representative of the express company in the nature of a vast surprise.
— from Bart Stirling's Road to Success; Or, The Young Express Agent by Allen Chapman