And those who in modern times see the world pervaded by universal law, may also see an anticipation of this last word of modern philosophy in the Platonic idea of good, which is the source and measure of all things, and yet only an abstraction (Philebus).
— from The Republic by Plato

He wished to repay the kindness of the Athenians, to keep alive the splendid associations connected with his name, and to eradicate from Europe a power which, while every other nation advanced in civilization, stood still, a monument of antique barbarism.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

He knew this both from what he had seen, and most of all from the face of Anna, who, he could see, was taxing every nerve to carry through the part she had taken up.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

" "Well, then, he is lately dead, Marianne, for I am sure there was such a man once, and his name begins with an F." Most grateful did Elinor feel to Lady Middleton for observing, at this moment, "that it rained very hard," though she believed the interruption to proceed less from any attention to her, than from her ladyship's great dislike of all such inelegant subjects of raillery as delighted her husband and mother.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Astronomy was long before known in the eastern nations; but there is reason to believe, from a passage in Virgil 269 , that it was little cultivated by the Romans; and it is certain, that in the reformation of the calendar, Julius Caesar was chiefly indebted to the scientific knowledge of (158) Sosigenes, a mathematician of Alexandria.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

I don't know whether you have ever seen a map of a person's mind.
— from Peter Pan by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

At Sāttamangalam, in the South Arcot district, the festival of the goddess Māriamma is said to be crowned by the sacrifice at midnight of a goat, the entrails of which are hung round the neck of the Toti (scavenger), who then goes, stark naked, save for this one adornment, round all the village boundaries.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

I am, as I said, a man of a weak and feeble mind, and shall be injured and made weak at that which others can bear.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

Even Zimri, the head of the tribe of Simeon accompanied with Cozbi, a Midianitish women, who was the daughter of Sur, a man of authority in that country; and being desired by his wife to disregard the laws of Moses, and to follow those she was used to, he complied with her, and this both by sacrificing after a manner different from his own, and by taking a stranger to wife.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Therefore, upon this ground, upon the ground of my being the projector of this vessel, upon the responsibility of my situation as Master, ostensible agent, and possessing owner, I most earnestly solicit your particular support to my appointment as managing owner of this vessel; and to that effect may I again solicit the most general attendance of the Stockholders at the meeting to be held on board the Canada the second of April.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

For sweet Agnes I have happily had no separate alarm: yet I have still a month of apprehension to come for both!
— from The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Horace Walpole

This, General, is Captain Schuyler, a mite of a man physically—a Gothamite, in fact—but a tower of wit and wisdom when permitted to speak.”
— from Found in the Philippines: The Story of a Woman's Letters by Charles King

It bursts on attaining maturity, and then reveals a round kernel, of the size of a nut, embedded in a network, sold as mace, of a beautiful red colour.
— from The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands by Anonymous

I like to get the hair clear back to the superficies and make out a new brow line."
— from Behind the Beyond, and Other Contributions to Human Knowledge by Stephen Leacock

They make a point of stopping at the door of any shop in which they see a European, whose ears they immediately assail with the most discordant noise, by beating a hollow bamboo with a [227] stick; a mode of annoyance which the law of China allows, and which is carried on in Macao; but, in the neighbouring British settlement, an entire stop has been put to it.
— from Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China. by G. F. Davidson

At first Rupert was exercised alone; as soon as he joined his gang he was slowly initiated into the conversation of eyes, lips, and gestures—the latter by far the most effective and subtle: a movement of a muscle of the face, the slightest elevation or depression of the shoulders, the crook of a finger, or even the pretence of stumbling as a man walked.
— from Blackthorn Farm by Arthur Applin

She's a marvel of a housekeeper, Ira.
— from Sheila of Big Wreck Cove: A Story of Cape Cod by James A. Cooper

It is merely, comparatively speaking, a matter of a couple of hundred years or so.
— from Nooks and Corners of Old England by Allan Fea

The Turks like to have them trained to kneel down at command and so take up their rider, and to pick up from the ground in their teeth a stick, a mace, or a sword, and to give it to their master in the saddle.
— from The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq