He would have been seven times more epicure and atheist than he was; for as the temporal 72 sword is to be drawn with great circumspection in cases of religion, so it is a thing monstrous to put it into the hands of the common people; let that be left unto the Anabaptists, and other furies.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon
But I shall follow what my heart Tells me is right, so I implore
— from Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan by Toru Dutt
Just as a man who belongs to the Crow clan has within him something of this animal, so the rain, since it is of the same clan and belongs to the same totem, is also necessarily considered as being "the same thing as a crow"; for the same reason, the moon is a black cockatoo, the sun a white cockatoo, every black-nut tree a pelican, etc.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim
Cut-flower exhibits are installed at various hotels and chalets, and an exhibit of rock specimens is in the lobby of Many Glacier Hotel.
— from Glacier National Park [Montana] by United States. Department of the Interior
The trend of the times, however, refused them recognition save in individual and exceptional cases, considered them as one with all the despised blacks, and they soon found themselves striving to keep even the rights they formerly had of voting and working and moving as freemen.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
“You are right,” said I, “I shall be delighted to see the fair Mariuccia.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova
If this be true, you acted unwisely; for had you closed your eyes, you might, perhaps, have fallen asleep, and enjoyed the blessing of refreshing slumber; if it be not true, you acted more unwisely still, by stating that as a fact which is altogether untrue.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley
"If one raskill said it, it's more reason why another should.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot
The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round him; you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ingenuity in ambush, behind his lucid frankness.
— from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Then Rossel said: "If I understand you rightly, I must confess that I don't understand you at all.
— from In Paradise: A Novel. Vol. II by Paul Heyse
He received some instruction in reading and writing.
— from History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens by George Washington Williams
Fellingham rapidly sketched it in fancy—Van Diemen, as a Member of the Parliament of Great Britain, led away from the House of Commons to be branded on the bank!
— from Complete Short Works of George Meredith by George Meredith
I saw nothing antecedently improbable in phenomena of that sort; indeed, it seemed to me that it might be a blessed thing if there were really something in it all; but examination showed me in this, as in all other cases where I have investigated so-called "spirit revelations," nothing save the worthlessness of human testimony to the miraculous.
— from Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 2 by Andrew Dickson White
'My pet, be reasonable,' said Ida; 'I can't go away without my trunk.'
— from The Golden Calf by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
It seemed as if lines which had been faint in the yellow-green and green region suddenly increased in intensity, the other parts of the spectrum not being similarly influenced.
— from Auroræ: Their Characters and Spectra by J. Rand Capron
Reid says: "It is not by the senses immediately, but rather by the power of analyzing and abstraction , that we get the most simple and the most distinct notions of objects of sense."
— from Thought-Culture; Or, Practical Mental Training by William Walker Atkinson
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