In the first and general part I shall explain my ideas, remove all prejudices, determine essential political and economic conditions, and develop the plan.
— from The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl

Besides, it is confidently spoken concerning him, that the King of the place where he is has bestowed upon him already a very rich and pleasant dwelling at court, and that he every day eateth and drinketh and walketh with Him, and receiveth of the smiles and favors of Him that is judge of all there.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

You can begin by carrying a rod, and putting down the figures.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

Hallward painted away with that marvellous bold touch of his, that had the true refinement and perfect delicacy that come only from strength.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

When we can no longer restrain a precocious development in one direction we must promote a corresponding development in another direction, so that the order of nature may not be inverted, and so that things should progress together, not separately, so that the man, complete at every moment of his life, may never find himself at one stage in one of his faculties and at another stage in another faculty.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Whether they have light of their own, or from the sun, or give light round, as Patritius discourseth?
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

'Have we not shown that those things which most men desire are not true and perfect good precisely for this cause—that they differ severally one from another, and, seeing that one is wanting to another, they cannot bestow full and absolute good; but that they become the true good when they are gathered, as it were, into one form and agency, so that that which is independence is likewise power, reverence, renown, and pleasant delight, and unless they are all one and the same, they have no claim to be counted among things desirable?'
— from The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

The atmosphere rare and pure, danger near and the spirit full of a joyful wickedness: thus are things well matched.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

In connexion with the decay of this venerable pile, we notice with sincere regret the recent and premature death of Mr. George Gwilt, jun., who assisted his father in the restoration of the tower and the choir of St. Saviour's, (see MIRROR, vol.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 390, September 19, 1829 by Various

He had had rather a pleasant day.
— from Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Wife: January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 by Mary King Waddington

The calmer Henry Sydney was consoled for the misfortunes of Coningsby by a fanciful project himself to pass a portion of his life amid these halls and courts, gardens and terraces, that maintain in the heart of a great city in the nineteenth century, so much of the grave romance and picturesque decorum of our past manners.
— from Coningsby; Or, The New Generation by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

There are innumerable wee apartments—a hall big enough to hang up your coat and hat, a kitchenette, and a room where your bed can be a couch disguised with a rug and pillows during the day.
— from Paris Vistas by Helen Davenport Gibbons

Or, when the dun clouds thickly veil the sky, while exhaustless stores of rain are poured down, until, the dank earth refusing to imbibe the superabundant moisture, it lies in pools on the surface; when the torch of day seems like a meteor, to be quenched; who has not seen the cloud-stirring north arise, the streaked blue appear, and soon an opening made in the vapours in the eye of the wind, through which the bright azure shines?
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Lord John's Views on the Ministry—Gloomy Prospects—Attacks on Lord Raglan—Russian and Prussian Diplomacy—Lord Palmerston more in favour—French View of the British Army—Russian Negotiations—Lord John Russell in Paris—Conference at Vienna—Lord Raglan unmoved—Terms proposed to Russia—Failure of the Duke of Newcastle—Hesitation of Austria and France—Deplorable State of the Armies—Chances of Peace—Meeting of Parliament—Further Negotiations—Lord John Russell resigns—Ministers stay in—The Debate on Roebuck's Motion—Resignation of Lord Aberdeen—Lord John Russell's real Motives—Lord Derby sent for—and fails—Wise Decision of the Queen—Ministerial Negotiations—Lord Palmerston sent for—The Peelites refuse to join—Lord Palmerston forms a Government—Lord Palmerston's Prospects—Lord John Russell sent to Vienna—Lord Palmerston in the House of Commons—General Alarm—Difficulties of Lord Palmerston—The Peelites secede—Lord John accepts the Colonial Office—Sir George Lewis Chancellor of the Exchequer—Death of the Emperor Nicholas of Russia—Lord Palmerston supposed to be a weak Debater—Weakness of the Government—Fresh Arrangements—The Budget—The Press page 217 CHAPTER IX.
— from The Greville Memoirs, Part 3 (of 3), Volume 1 (of 2) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1852 to 1860 by Charles Greville

But it was no part of his plan to descend until he had passed the head waters of all other streams and reached a point directly south of the camp and above it.
— from Camp Venture: A Story of the Virginia Mountains by George Cary Eggleston

By Rev. A. Plummer , D.D. Proverbs.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Kings by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

In ideas thus got, the mind discovers that some agree and others differ, probably as soon as it has any use of memory; as soon as it is able to retain and perceive distinct ideas.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

But as the light overcame the cloud and began to warm the ripples, he saw some of his cattle in danger on the steep side of the lake, where the rains run almost perpendicularly down to the margin and cut weals of naked red earth in the mountain-side.
— from Beautiful Wales by Edward Thomas