Though the supposition that any of the vices either of Kritias or Alkibiadês were encouraged, or even tolerated, by Sokratês, can have arisen in none but prejudiced or ill-informed minds, yet it is certain that such a supposition was entertained; and that it placed him before the public in an altered position after the enormities of the Thirty.
— from History of Greece, Volume 08 (of 12) by George Grote

And well it may, for it is the most submitting act that a man can do; it throweth out all our righteousness; it makes the soul poor in itself; it liveth upon God and Christ, as the almsman doth upon his lord; it consenteth to the gospel that it is true; it giveth God and Christ the glory of their mercy and merit; it loveth God for his mercy, and Jesus Christ for his service; whatever good it doth, it still crieth, Hereby am I not justified, but he
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01 by John Bunyan

If forsaken by him, she considers herself as injured, not disgraced.
— from Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson

And in short she so comported herself as in no long time to bring it to pass that, not only in the marquisate, but far and wide besides, her virtues and her admirable conversation were matter of common talk, and, if aught had been said to the disadvantage of her husband, when he married her, the judgment was now altogether to the contrary effect.
— from The Decameron, Volume II by Giovanni Boccaccio

And in this, surely, creation has accomplished its noblest work.
— from Joseph Conrad by Hugh Walpole

He was a man of taking manners to begin with, sympathetic, cultivated, humane; and, I need hardly add, scrupulously conscientious and exact.
— from The Heavenly Twins by Sarah Grand

eamboat and after him: so she will soon catch him, and is not that a comfort?”
— from Hard Cash by Charles Reade

“They’ve outflanked us, Charley,” said Considine; “however, all is not yet lost.
— from Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 by Charles James Lever

Mr. George Roberts, in his “Social History of [Pg 71] the Southern Counties,” has an interesting note respecting the potatoes named in the foregoing entry.
— from England in the Days of Old by William Andrews