Ben Jonson, [607] though we have strained his few words of regard and panegyric, had no suspicion of the elastic fame whose first vibrations he was attempting.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

This practice accounts for the fact that learning makes most men more stupid and foolish than they are by nature, and prevents their writings from being a success; they remain, as Pope has said, "For ever reading, never to be read.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

You can open no place better than the haemorrhoids, which if by horseleeches they be made to flow, [4393] there may be again such an excellent remedy, as Plater holds.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Enlightened Moslems, accordingly, have often been more Epicurean than Stoical; and if they have felt themselves (not without some reason) superior to Christians in delicacy, in savoir vivre , in kinship with all natural powers, this sense of superiority has been quite rationalistic and purely human.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

In this personal identity is founded all the right and justice of reward and punishment; happiness and misery being that for which every one is concerned for HIMSELF, and not mattering what becomes of any SUBSTANCE, not joined to, or affected with that consciousness.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

O thou that future things canst represent As present, Heav’nly instructer, I revive At this last sight, assur’d that Man shall live With all the Creatures, and thir seed preserve.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

He is Sole Legislator; and Supreme Judge of Controversies; and of the Times, and Occasions of Warre, and Peace: to him it belongeth to choose Magistrates, Counsellours, Commanders, and all other Officers, and Ministers; and to determine of Rewards, and punishments, Honour, and Order.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

As soon as she was set afloat again and brought into deeper water she was reloaded and pursued her voyage to the Havannah.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

If the violence of the wind, however, should tear the sail into pieces (a feat which it requires a perfect hurricane to accomplish under ordinary circumstances), there is then imminent danger.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

It mattered not; exerting all his remaining strength he rushed down the bank, dropped his rifle, and plunged head-foremost into the stream.
— from The Dog Crusoe and his Master by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

But, Madame—she must sit at home with her distaff, her only relaxation a prêche , her amusement and joy to await Monsieur's return—is not that your idea, Chevalier?'
— from The Chevalier d'Auriac by S. (Sidney) Levett Yeats

She opened and closed the door, but did not leave the room, and placed her fingers on her lips with a bright eager look in our direction, warning us not to betray her.
— from Jessie Trim by B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon

Gyp walked across the room and put her hand on the bell.
— from Beyond by John Galsworthy

The present system of making them valuable presents to influence them to remain at peace has proved ineffectual.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

The king, not knowing how to proceed, sent to the pope for directions how to act; but the pontiff was so incensed at this affair, that his only reply was, severely punish those rash and profane heretics.
— 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 reader will doubtless remember how, in Genesis xxx, Leah is represented as purchasing her husband's company for a night by means of mandrakes, the result being the birth of Issachar; and in the well-known story of the Creation we find that the apple gives birth to desire, as shown in the recognition for the first time of the respective nudity of the couple, which was followed immediately, or as soon as it was possible afterwards, by sexual intercourse and the conception of Cain.
— from Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, on the Assyrian Sacred "Grove," and Other Allied Symbols by Thomas Inman

THE REBELLION AT PUTNAM HALL Or The Rival Runaways
— from The Radio Boys' First Wireless; Or, Winning the Ferberton Prize by Allen Chapman