What can stand more in the way of genuine philosophical effort, honest inquiry after truth, the noblest calling of the noblest of mankind, than this conventional system of metaphysics invested with a monopoly from the State, whose principles are inculcated so earnestly, deeply, and firmly into every head in earliest youth as to make them, unless the mind is of miraculous elasticity, become ineradicable?
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

142 142 ley y yo que soy el destinado a acatarla, está una pobre criatura atormentada, un ángel de Dios sujeto a inicuos martirios.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

"Galileo with an opera-glass," said Emerson, "discovered a more splendid series of celestial phenomena than any one since with the great telescopes.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

He used to shave every day, and rub his face with soaked bread; the use of which he began when the down first appeared upon his chin, to prevent his having any beard.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Debido a estas y otras dificultades que siempre encontraba, decidió abandonar la comarca.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

'But he hadn't,' said Eugene, drawing a lady's head upon his writing-paper, and touching it at intervals, 'the opportunity then of earning so much money, you see.'
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

They talked of burning one of their Ships, which we had so entirely disabled, as to be no farther useful to them, and to fit the Cassandra in her room; but in the End I managed my Tack so well, that they made me a Present of the said shattered Ship, which was Dutch built, called the Fancy, about three hundred Tons, and also a hundred and twenty nine Bales of the Company’s Cloth, tho’ they would not give me a Rag of my Cloathes .
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

On the contrary, although some of these same people were proved by events to have been completely wrong in their prognostications at the beginning of the Great War, they are still regarded as oracles and sometimes even described as "thinking for half Europe."
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

So Elaine daily and nightly tending him, within a month he felt so strong he deemed himself full cured.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

So evenly distributed are the beauties of this long stretch of river scenery, that it is not easy to single out particular points as calling for special notice.
— from Wonderland; or, Alaska and the Inside Passage With a Description of the Country Traversed by the Northern Pacific Railroad by John Hyde

“Stumpy eat da apron—I brang back—da half ta Mees Jan.”
— from Tom Grogan by Francis Hopkinson Smith

I get up before seven every day and go to bed at nine and drink eight glasses of milk a day.
— from Nelka Mrs. Helen de Smirnoff Moukhanoff, 1878-1963, a Biographical Sketch by Michael Moukhanoff

It is something like the purveying of the manufacturers and the dry-goods jobber for the changing trade in fashions; only the newspaper has the advantage that it can turn a somersault every day and not have any useless stock left on hand.
— from That Fortune by Charles Dudley Warner

A vast number of cattle was slaughtered every day, and the whole town looked like one great market; the common people, in every street, appearing loaded with pieces of raw beef, while drink circulated in the same proportion.
— from Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, Volume 3 (of 5) In the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773 by James Bruce

But now, doubtless, you will entertain us, for we have ridden since early dawn, and are very tired."
— from House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court by Guy Thorne

It must not be confounded with the red silver fir ( Abies Magnifica ) so eloquently described as the chief delight of the Yosemite region by Smeaton Chase.
— from The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter by George Wharton James