The perception of real affinities between events, (that is to say, of ideal affinities, for those only are real,) enables the poet thus to make free with the most imposing forms and phenomena of the world, and to assert the predominance of the soul.
— from Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson

A dark silhouetted mass is seen against a light sky, the perfect balance of the shapes and the infinite play of lost-and-foundness in the edges giving to this simple structure a richness and beauty effect that is very satisfying.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

[309] It is evident that the name Pillars misled Megasthenes or the writers from whom he borrowed the facts; for it is impossible to suppose that Tearcho, who reigned in Arabia, or that Nabuchodonosor, who reigned at Babylon, ever conducted an army across the desert and through the whole breadth of Africa to the Straits of Gibraltar, to which place nothing invited them, and the existence of which, as well as that of the neighbouring countries, must have been unknown.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

The following are recommended as being especially helpful: "Thinking and Learning to Think," Nathan C. Schaeffer; "Talks to Students on the Art of Study," Cramer; "As a Man Thinketh," Allen.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

Who can readily and briefly explain this?
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

90 Besides these royal and beneficiary estates, a large proportion had been assigned, in the division of Gaul, of allodial and Salic lands: they were exempt from tribute, and the Salic lands were equally shared among the male descendants of the Franks.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

What good it would have done me at that time to have been tossed in the storms of an uncertain struggling life, and to have been taught by rough and bitter experience to long for the calm amidst which I now repined!
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Mais le roi le rassura avec bonté, et lui dit que les hommes étaient faits pour s'entr'aider.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

In some of the richest and best endowed universities, the tutors content themselves with teaching a few unconnected shreds and parcels of this corrupted course; and even these they commonly teach very negligently and superficially.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

329-330): "The stimulus (object) to which the child often responds, a box, e.g. by movements such as opening and closing and putting objects into it, may serve to illustrate our argument.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

This way, my dear fellow!" and turning into Cross Street, up towards Leather Lane, Mr. Smivvle halted at a certain dingy door, opened it, and showed Barnabas into a dingier hall, and so, leading the way up the dingiest stairs in the world, eventually ushered him into a fair-sized, though dingy, room; and being entered, immediately stood upon tip-toe and laid a finger on his lips.
— from The Amateur Gentleman by Jeffery Farnol

Such methods as characterized the government of Sulu would have ruined any business establishment and could not have done justice to any nation or body of men it represented.
— from The History of Sulu by Najeeb M. (Najeeb Mitry) Saleeby

O bachelors, rejoice and be exceeding glad!
— from Petty Troubles of Married Life, First Part by Honoré de Balzac

Then as for servant-girls, it is a common delusion to believe that they are well off in Brisbane; the fact is that the majority of people who keep a servant both overwork her and use her as a coat-of-arms wherewith to set themselves off, and one never by any chance reads a book either in Australia or elsewhere in which a servant is spoken of as possessed of even common sense.
— from Missing Friends Being the Adventures of a Danish Emigrant in Queensland (1871-1880) by Thorvald Peter Ludwig Weitemeyer

[Pg 127] but Lee, having completed his bridges, made a successful passage of the river, and by eight o'clock on that morning had his army, with its trains and stores, safe on the Virginia side.
— from Vermont riflemen in the war for the union, 1861 to 1865 A history of Company F, First United States sharp shooters by William Young Warren Ripley

The Treaty of Dresden can be read in Scholl, Flassan, Rousset, Adelung; but, except on compulsion, no creature will now read it,—nor did this Editor, even he, find it pay.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15 by Thomas Carlyle

I took a stalk, and, using the block method, with torsional vibration as the stimulus, obtained strong responses at both ends A and B .
— from Response in the Living and Non-Living by Jagadis Chandra Bose

To you has been accorded a great happiness; to me have come all sorts of renunciations and bitter experiences.
— from In Paradise: A Novel. Vol. II by Paul Heyse

But the rooks are busily engaged in the trees of the park, and away yonder at the distant colony in the elms of the meadows.
— from The Gamekeeper at Home: Sketches of natural history and rural life (Illustrated) by Richard Jefferies