Note 10 ( return ) [ 'Essays, Scientific, Political, and Speculative,' Second Series, 1863, p. 111.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

Note 402 ( return ) [ 'Essays, Scientific, Political, and Speculative,' 1858.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

] 110 ( return ) [ Ergo septae pudicitiâ agunt .
— from The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus

The function of envisaging reality, ever since Parmenides and Heraclitus, had been universally attributed to the intellect.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

It makes our own religious enthusiasm seem pale and cold.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

Reus excusat se per Advocatum , 8. cui Actoris Procurator , 9. contradicit.
— from The Orbis Pictus by Johann Amos Comenius

No woman could have written Mr. Barrie's biography of his mother; but for a man like him there is a sort of sacredness in revealing emotion so private as to be expressible only in the purest speech.
— from The Theory of the Theatre, and Other Principles of Dramatic Criticism by Clayton Meeker Hamilton

Ruth always told old Mage the happenings of the day as they were seated at their evening meal; her old nurse loved to listen to her animated account of every little thing that she remembered that she'd seen or heard about; she had an unusual memory of small details and a most graphic power of description; these she employed to interest and amuse her old nurse who had been alone with little Tid-i-wats, almost all day; in recounting recent events she passed as lightly as possible over the occurrences of the battle-field where she had found and rescued one who had been left as dead among the lifeless bodies of the slain; she did not wish to shock old Mage too much and, somehow, she did not wish to speak of him she'd rescued ...
— from An American by Belle Willey Gue

It is gratifying to notice that at last his character and services are beginning to be better appreciated in the provinces over which he ruled, and we may hope that in time the Andros of partisan history will give place, even in the popular narratives of colonial affairs, to the Andros who really existed, stern, proud and uncompromising it is true, but honest, upright and just; a loyal servant of the crown and a friend to the best interests of the people.
— from The Loyalists of Massachusetts and the Other Side of the American Revolution by James Henry Stark

He was a big, stout boy of his age; and, when he thought it was safe, played hookey, put in coal, ran errands, sold papers, and did whatever his hands found to do with all his might, even to snivyin’ on the corner grocer.
— from In Wild Rose Time by Amanda M. Douglas

Fortunately, my grandmother had left me a small log cabin in a clearing, this being her ancestral domicile and the only piece of real estate she possessed at the time of her long-delayed demise some months back.
— from The Book of Clever Beasts: Studies in Unnatural History by Myrtle Reed

Accordingly, without much more resistance, Eustace suffered Primrose and Periwinkle to drag him into the drawing-room.
— from A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys by Nathaniel Hawthorne

What erratic railroad enterprises suddenly pass at our State capitals!
— from The Abominations of Modern Society by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage