If thine heart were right, then should every creature be a mirror of life and a book of holy doctrine.
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas

Our somewhat embarrassed conversation brightened with the King's expression of his satisfaction with those two of my operas which had been performed in Dresden.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

Above all, he was a man of strong passions; and his intellectual passion for truth was reinforced by his passionate dissatisfaction with human life unless a spiritual explanation could be found.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

That they, by resigning each a portion of their strict right, should establish concord by a compromise; the patricians, by suffering military tribunes with consular authority to be elected; the tribunes of the commons, by ceasing to protest against the [Pg 300] four quæstors being elected promiscuously from the commons and patricians by the free suffrage of the people."
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

The anxiety in which, for three days, London society existed, cannot be described.
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

It was not his real character that he so often and so easily changed, but as he knew that if he appeared in his true colours, he would be universally disliked, he concealed his real self under an apparent adoption of the ways and fashions of whatever place he was in.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

But, of course, no such experience could be gotten as regarded boys in other houses; and as most of the other houses were more or less jealous of the School-house, collisions were frequent.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

Here we must observe that this harmony which is so eagerly contemplated by modern man, in fact, this oneness of man with nature, to express which Schiller introduced the technical term "naïve," is by no means such a simple, naturally resulting and, as it were, inevitable condition, which must be found at the gate of every culture leading to a paradise of man: this could be believed only by an age which sought to picture to itself Rousseau's Émile also as an artist, and imagined it had found in Homer such an artist Émile, reared at Nature's bosom.
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

And until such a cause as we require is fully proved to exist, its supposed effects cannot be made the basis of scientific argument.
— from The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer by John Gerard

If these do not constitute evidences of intellectuality, it would be difficult to say where such evidences could be found, or 138 on what basis we ourselves will rest our claim of intellectual superiority.
— from The War in the East: Japan, China, and Corea by Trumbull White

Out of the fullness of knowledge she has gained by an amazingly sensitive sympathy she has there written the best account I have ever seen of how thwarted sex emotion can be sublimated to other ends, and made an immensely effective force for the progress of the race.
— from Men, Women, and God A Discussion of Sex Questions from the Christian Point of View by A. Herbert (Arthur Herbert) Gray

Deliberate, cold-blooded murder committed under such extenuating circumstances began to appear more in the light of justice than of crime.
— from When Dreams Come True by Ritter Brown

The streets of the neighbourhood must at that time have been good specimens of those so energetically condemned by Arthur Young in one of his descriptions of Paris.
— from Old and New Paris: Its History, Its People, and Its Places, v. 1 by H. Sutherland (Henry Sutherland) Edwards

"No, of course not," said Ethel, choking back her embarrassment.
— from In the Clutch of the War-God by Milo Hastings

For I have never understood in my time, any such have Suffered as Witches, tho' sufficiently known; But the only Witch now inquired after, is one that is said to become so by making an Explicit Covenant with the Devil, i. e. the Devil appearing to them, and making a compact 77 mutually, promising each to other, testified by their signing his Book, a material Book, which he is said to keep and that thereby they are Intituled to a power, not only to Afflict others, but such as is truly exorbitant, if not highly intrenching upon the prerogative of him, who is the Soveraign being; For who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not. Such explicit Covenant being as is said in this Age reckoned essential to compleat a Witch: Yet I finding nothing of such covenant (or power thereby obtain'd) in Scripture, and yet a Witch therein so fully describ'd, do pray that if there be any such Scriptures I may be directed to them, for as to the many Legends in this case I make no account of them; I Read indeed of a Covenant with Death and with Hell, but suppose that to be in the Heart (or Mental ) only, and see not what use such explicit one can be of between Spirits, any further than as 'tis a Copy of that Mental which is in the Heart.
— from The Witchcraft Delusion in New England: Its Rise, Progress, and Termination (Vol. 2 of 3) by Robert Calef