Now what opinion of any other Sophist, or of any private person, can be expected to overcome in such an unequal contest? E None, he replied.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

Taken in conjunction with other symptoms it means that Shakespeare, set upon the dramatic effect of the great scenes and upon certain effects not wholly dramatic, was exceptionally careless of probability, clearness and consistency in smaller matters, introducing what was convenient or striking for a momentary purpose without troubling himself about anything more than the moment.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

This, however, involved directly the prospect of emancipation in other border States and ultimate complete emancipation in all the States.
— from The Anti-Slavery Crusade: A Chronicle of the Gathering Storm by Jesse Macy

Place over a slow fire, and after boiling fifteen or twenty minutes, stirring only enough to keep from burning, remove and set away until cool enough to pour in a glass dish.
— from Cookery for Little Girls by Olive Hyde Foster

Though none too careful to proportion its projects to the force at its disposal, the Directory sufficiently understood that a detachment at Spezia could not be self-dependent, nor could, with any certainty, combine its operations with those of the army in the Riviera; and also that, to be properly supported at all, there must be reasonably secure and unbroken communication, either by land or water, neither of which was possible until the British fleet was neutralized.
— from The Life of Nelson, Volume 1 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Imposing no restraint on their passions, a shameless and universal concubinage exists, and a total disregard of morality, to which it would be impossible to find a parallel in any country calling itself civilized.
— from The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Edwin Percy Whipple

Such an uniformity cannot exist without an uniformity of sentiment as to public matters, and to produce this uniformity is the object of this address.
— from William Cobbett: A Biography in Two Volumes, Vol. 2 by Edward Smith

Ladies of four score and upwards cannot expect to be robust, and need not be gay.
— from Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville by Mary Somerville