But the main point is the same that we mentioned in the former kind of fountain; which is, that the water be in perpetual motion, fed by a water higher than the pool, and delivered into it by fair spouts, and then discharged away under ground, by some equality of bores, that it stay little; and for fine devices, of arching water 488 without spilling, and making it rise in several forms (of feathers, drinking-glasses, canopies, and the like), they be pretty things to look on, but nothing to health and sweetness.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

" "And what did she say?" "She asked me in return, if I should not be afraid of a man who had shut me up in a mad-house, and who would shut me up again, if he could?
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

The people of Hungary crushed by violence, shall be nothing, its sovereign right nothing; but the piracy of the Czar, encroaching upon the sacred rights of mine and many other nations, shall be regarded as legitimate, against which the United States, though grown to mighty power on earth, able without any risk of its own security to maintain the law of nations and the influence of its glorious example, should still have nothing to object, only because Washington, more than half a century ago, declared neutrality appropriate to the infant condition of his country then; and was anxious to gain time, that your country might settle and mature its recent institutions, and progress to that degree of strength, when it would be able to defy any power on earth in a just cause.
— from Select Speeches of Kossuth by Lajos Kossuth

We engage in conversation; I display all the wit that I do not possess; I say some charming things; she answers me, I retort; it is a display of fireworks, a luminous shower of dazzling repartee.—In short, I am adorable—and adored.—The supper hour arrives, she invites me to join her;—I
— from Mademoiselle de Maupin, Volume 1 (of 2) by Théophile Gautier

As soon as money is received it is deposited in the Bank of British North America, in the names of the Chairman, Treasurer and Secretary.
— from The Story of the Great Fire in St. John, N.B., June 20th, 1877 by George Stewart

The corpse is carried on a small litter, or bier, made of bamboo sticks (a man is robed in white and a woman in red), and deposited in the Ganges, feet foremost; care is taken that the whole body be immersed in order that purification may be complete.
— from Travels in the Far East by Ellen Mary Hayes Peck

Mr. Smithers voiced the general opinion when he said that Washington could not have secured a more ideal residence in which to spend his honorable old age.
— from Barry Wynn; Or, The Adventures of a Page Boy in the United States Congress by George Barton

None of the disorders discovered and described by Magnan and his pupils, and decorated with a sonorous Greek name, forms an independent entity, and appears separately; and Morel is right in disregarding as unessential all these varied manifestations of a morbid cerebral activity, and adhering to the principal phenomenon which lies at the base of all the ‘phobias [243] ’ and ‘manias,’ namely, the great emotionalism of the degenerate.
— from Degeneration by Max Simon Nordau

The ministers, however, thought otherwise; the military were summoned, and much injury, resulting, it is to be hoped, from accident, not design, ensued to many of the persons assembled.
— from The Disowned — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Instead of distinguishing the good from the evil in man, of unfolding his inner kernel, the pure spirit, and making it rule; instead of demanding, like Pythagoras , discipline as a preparatory school for wisdom, he has learned from Rousseau , the master of modern Liberalism, that everything in man is good.
— from The Freedom of Science by Josef Donat

Voltaire, i. 2 , 21 , 63 ; effect on Rousseau of his Letters on the English, i. 86 ; spreads a derogatory report about Rousseau, i. 101 , n. ; his "Princesse de Navarre," i. 119 ; criticism on Rousseau's first Discourse, i. 147 ; effect on his work of his common sense, i. 155 ; avoids the society of Paris, i. 202 ; his conversion to Romanism, i. 220 , 221 ; strictures on Homer and Shakespeare, i. 280 ; his position in the eighteenth century, i. 301 ; general difference between, and Rousseau, i. 301 ; clung to the rationalistic school of his day, i. 305 ; on Rousseau's second Discourse, i. 308 ; his poem on the earthquake of Lisbon, i. 309 , 310 ; his sympathy with suffering, i. 311 , 312 ; entreated by Rousseau to draw up a civil profession of religious faith, i. 317 ; denounced by Rousseau as a "trumpet of impiety," i. 317 , 320 , n. ; his satire and mockery irritated Rousseau, i. 319 ; what he was to his contemporaries, i. 321 ; the great play-writer of the time, i. 321 ; his criticism of Rousseau's Letter on the Theatre, i. 336 ; his indignation at wrong, ii. 11 ; ridicule of the New Heloïsa, ii. 34 ; less courageous than Rousseau, ii. 65 ; contrast between the two, i. 99 , ii. 75 ; supposed to have stirred up animosity at Geneva against Rousseau, ii. 81 ; denies it, ii. 81 ; his notion of how the matter would end, ii. 81 ; his fickleness, ii. 83 ; on Rousseau's connection with Corsica, ii. 101 ; his Philosophical Dictionary burnt by order at Paris, ii. 105 ; his opinion of Emilius, ii. 257 ; prime agent in introducing English deism into France, ii. 262 ; suspected by Rousseau of having written the pretended letter from the King of Prussia, ii. 288 ; last visit to Paris, ii. 324 .
— from Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2) by John Morley