“I am,” replied Isaac, in the same language, (for his traffic had rendered every tongue spoken in Britain familiar to him)—“and who art thou?”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

From this we see that reason endeavours to subject the great variety of the cognitions of the understanding to the smallest possible number of principles (general conditions), and thus to produce in it the highest unity.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Alarmed at these orders, each individual of the Theban Legion absolutely refused either to sacrifice or take the oaths prescribed.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

This inequality of equipment was a thing inevitable to her isolation, and hardly worth recording, except to show how laborious her mind was, and how quick to make the best of small resources.
— from Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan by Toru Dutt

There is no language rich enough to supply terms and expressions sufficient for the modifications of our ideas.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

He could not forget the subject,—could not pass from it to other things; he kept recurring to it through the evening, with an unwillingness to receive even the slightest unfavourable idea, which made Margaret inexpressibly sad.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

And when Dionysius rose up, he raised her up with him, and many pretty gestures, embraces, kisses, and love compliments passed between them: which when they saw fair Bacchus and beautiful Ariadne so sweetly and so unfeignedly kissing each other, so really embracing, they swore they loved indeed, and were so inflamed with the object, that they began to rouse up themselves, as if they would have flown.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Glaucon and the rest of the company joined in my request, and Thrasymachus, as any one might see, was in reality eager to speak; for he thought that he had an excellent answer, and would distinguish himself.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

This declaration will certainly be made in form, as soon as the lover can pick up resolution enough to stand the brunt of Mrs Tabby’s disappointment; for he is, without doubt, aware of her designs upon his person—The particulars of the denouement you shall know in due season: mean while I am Always yours, J. MELFORD LONDON, June 10.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Some of them, indeed, withdrew entirely from the danger, and left to its fate the town, whose prosperity they had been ready enough to share, but in whose adversity they were unwilling to bear a part.
— from History of the Revolt of the Netherlands — Volume 04 by Friedrich Schiller

"Oh, he can make up the bunks and sweep the cabin and help the doctor, if he don't know the ropes," exclaimed the sailor, who thought he ought to say a good word for Tony, seeing that the latter did not know enough to say it for himself.
— from George at the Wheel; Or, Life in the Pilot-House by Harry Castlemon

Between Nathan Benjulia, the famous doctor, and Lemuel Benjulia, the publisher’s clerk, there was just family resemblance enough to suggest that they were relations.
— from Heart and Science: A Story of the Present Time by Wilkie Collins

The chiefs were so much attached to our people that they rather encouraged their stay among them than otherwise, and even made them promises of large possessions.
— from The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders by Scott, Ernest, Sir

The baneful consequences which flow from inattention to health during infancy, and youth, extend further than is supposed, dependence of body naturally produces dependence of mind; and how can she be a good wife or mother, the greater part of whose time is employed to guard against or endure sickness; nor can it be expected, that a woman will resolutely endeavour to strengthen her constitution and abstain from enervating indulgences, if artificial notions of beauty, and false descriptions of sensibility, have been early entangled with her motives of action.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

The knight looked, and readily expounded the sentence, so that all became plain; and then, as it was already too dark to pursue the study with comfort, he stood over the boy, talking to him of books and of poems, while the usually pale, listless, uninterested countenance responded by looks of eager delight and flushing colour.
— from The Caged Lion by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Mrs. Roughsedge explained that she had been entertaining some relations, and Hugh had been in London.
— from The Testing of Diana Mallory by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.