Now, if I go farther, and for weighty reasons rank as mere appearances the remaining qualities of bodies also, which are called primary, such as extension, place, and in general space, with all that which belongs to it (impenetrability or materiality, space, etc.)—no one in the least can adduce the reason of its being inadmissible.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

Now Julius Proculus, one of the noblest patricians, and of good reputation, being one of the original colonists from Alba, and a friend and companion of Romulus, came into the Forum, and there upon his oath, and touching the most sacred things, stated before all men that as he was walking along the road Romulus appeared, meeting him, more beautiful and taller than he had ever appeared before, with bright and glittering arms.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

By means of this holy, sublime, and real religion all men, being children of one God, recognise one another as brothers, and the society that unites them is not dissolved even at death.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Well hast thou spoke; but at the tyrant's name My rage rekindles, and my soul's on flame: 'Tis just resentment, and becomes the brave: Disgraced, dishonour'd, like the vilest slave!
— from The Iliad by Homer

I made what haste I could to the shore, and, getting into my canoe, shoved off: the savages, observing me retreat, ran after me: and before I could get far enough into the sea, discharged an arrow which wounded me deeply on the inside of my left knee: I shall carry the mark to my grave.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

In these useful functions he was assisted by three learned strangers; the two collaterals , and the judge of criminal appeals: their frequent trials of robberies, rapes, and murders, are attested by the laws; and the weakness of these laws connives at the licentiousness of private feuds and armed associations for mutual defence.
— 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

He keeps to his proper place and makes no attempt to depart from it; he does not waste his strength in getting what he cannot keep; and his whole strength being devoted to the right employment of what he has, he is in reality richer and more powerful in proportion as he desires less than we.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Have you never heard these respectable men, when they got home again, talking about the way in which immorality runs rampant abroad? MANDERS.
— from Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen

When you read, read as Macaulay did, as Carlyle did, as Lincoln did—as did every great man who has profited by his reading—with your whole soul absorbed in what you read, with such intense concentration that you will be oblivious of everything else outside of your book.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

In 1846, Mr. T. Vault, from the committee on education, made a report recommending a memorial to Congress on the subject of education.
— from A History of Oregon, 1792-1849 Drawn From Personal Observation and Authentic Information by W. H. (William Henry) Gray

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— from Life of Mozart, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Otto Jahn

The people now cheerfully departed with their rice, resolving, as many of them as could get milk, to put one of Mrs. White's receipts in practice, and an excellent supper they had.
— from The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain, and Other Tales by Hannah More

For this gallant act Lieutenant Clarke rightly received a medal of honor.
— from The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue by Various

So quickly was this second stock sold out that the States began to think an opportunity had arisen for them to make a new outlet for their manufacturing energy and enterprise, and very soon they decided to import raw rubber and manufacture rubber goods.
— from Rubber by Edith A. Browne

What is pictured by Isaac receiving Rebekah and making her his wife after the death of his mother Sarah?
— from The Harp of God: Proof Conclusive That Millions Now Living Will Never Die by J. F. (Joseph Franklin) Rutherford

I was des walkin' long de road past a man's house whar dis here big, devilish-lookin' old sheep come er runnin' right at me wid his head down—an' I lammed him wid er stick ter save my life, sah.
— from The Southerner: A Romance of the Real Lincoln by Dixon, Thomas, Jr.

We reached Rummel and Miller in so short a time after my departure from them as to cause an inquiry from them as to how I had managed to find the darkeys so quickly.
— from The Bright Side of Prison Life Experience, In Prison and Out, of an Involuntary Soujouner in Rebellion by S. A. (Samuel A.) Swiggett