Thus Shakespeare and Bacon wrote largely in the reign of James I, but their work is Elizabethan in spirit; and Bunyan is no less a Puritan because he happened to write after the Restoration.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

I would not that men should refuse, in the employments they take upon them, their attention, pains, eloquence, sweat, and blood if need be: “Non ipse pro caris amicis Aut patria, timidus perire:” [“Himself not afraid to die for beloved friends, or for his country.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Such a being is neither under necessity nor chance.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

——Ergo, such a baptism is null, said Kysarcius.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

And it is a great blessing that such a being is non-existent ... .
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

When, in the year 1889, I was a witness to the extraordinarily enlightening demonstrations of Siebault and Bernheim in Nancy, I witnessed also the following experiment:
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

This is an occurrence so common that I never met with any person to whom it had not happened; few will admit it to be a spiritual agency, but in no other way can they satisfactorily explain its cause.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

[329] by the extent of its navy, by the number of its subjects who lived on the sea or by the sea, and by its numerous bases of operations scattered over the globe.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Though such a beginning is not to be recommended as a general precept, it must be confessed that in this particular instance developments proved its wisdom.
— from Tropic Days by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield

There being no constraint, a change of subject is always in order, and so a body is not likely to keep pegging at a single topic until it grows tiresome.
— from A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain

Unfortunately the inns are very poor, so it is not a good place to stop at; but if not very fastidious, the accommodation will suffice for two or three nights; and the white wine is good.
— from The Life of the Moselle From its source in the Vosges Mountains to its junction with the Rhine at Coblence by Octavius Rooke

Beaded brown jars of cream were by her and great, fair pans of milk, mounds and balls of primrose-tinted butter, white cheeses wrapped in grape-leaves, clotted cream that quivered at a touch, tall pitchers of whey, loppered milk ready for the spoon and buttermilk in new-washed churns.
— from In the Border Country by Josephine Daskam Bacon

There were a very few, however, who were attracted not by gold but by admiration for the sublime and beautiful in nature, especially through companionship with the noble trees and towering cliffs of the Sierras; and these men aided in revealing to the world the previously unwritten history of these formations.
— from The Awakening of the Desert by Julius Charles Birge

People don’t.” All through the anxious time when we were being soused and buffeted I noticed how our company, every man of them, even the Pyrrhonist, saw omens in all the chance variety of the vast menace under the frown of which we huddled in our iron box; porpoises alongside; one of Mother Cary’s dark brood accompanying us, glancing about the vagaries of the flowing hills with swift precision; the form of a cloud; a loom far out, as though day were there at least.
— from The Sea and the Jungle by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson

Vastness and simplicity as befits its name are the keynotes of the building, the slight efforts at decoration lost in the blinding whiteness that is almost unbearable in those hours when the noonday sun beats down upon the city.
— from Algeria and Tunis by Frances E. Nesbitt

No, stop a bit, is not that going rather far?
— from In God's Way: A Novel by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

“That’s Sanders’ girl,” said a boy into Nancy’s ear.
— from Nancy Brandon by Lilian Garis

To the healthy, walking is a pleasure; to the sick, a burden, if not an impossibility.
— from The Ministry of Intercession: A Plea for More Prayer by Andrew Murray