And even if these should effect no change, yet the delay will at least prevent the final approval of the decision from being alloyed by the inward censure of the rashness and vanity, by which it had been precipitated.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Yet it is not possible that we should remember that we existed before our body, for our body can bear no trace of such existence, neither can eternity be defined in terms of time, or have any relation to time.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

of fînis courage , virtûs, -ûtis, f. crime , scelus, -eris, n. cross , trânseô, 4 ( § 499 ) crown , corôna, -ae, f. D daily , cotîdiê danger , perîculum, -î, n. daughter , fîlia, -ae, f. ( § 67 ) day , diês, -êî, m. daybreak , prîma lûx dear , cârus, -a, -um death , mors, mortis, f. deed , rês, reî, f. deep , altus, -a, -um defeat , calamitâs, -âtis, f. defend , dêfendô, 3 delay ( Noun ), mora, -ae, f. delay ( verb ), moror, 1 demand , postulô, 1 dense , dênsus, -a, -um depart , discêdô, 3; exeô, 4; proficîscor, 3 dependent , cliêns, -entis, m. design , cônsilium, consi´lî n. desire , cupiô, 3 destroy , dêleô, 2 Diana , Diâna, -ae, f. differ , differô, differre, distulî, dîlâtus ( § 498 ) different , dissimilis, -e difficult , difficilis, -e difficulty , difficultâs, -âtis, f. diligence , dîligentia, -ae, f. dinner , cêna, -ae, f. disaster , calamitâs, -âtis,
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Of the beauty of the scene, however, I can not say enough, nor can I imagine where those travelers carried their eyes who have described the scenery of the lake as tame or uninteresting.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

For the Amonians erected most of their sacred edifices near caverns, and deep openings of the earth.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

Epicurus makes the gods shining, transparent, and perflable, lodged as betwixt two forts, betwixt two worlds, secure from blows, clothed in a human figure, and with such members as we have; which members are to them of no use:— Ego Deum genus esse semper duxi, et dicam colitum; Sed eos non curare opinor quid agat humanum genus.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

‘Is he, indeed?’ rejoined Mr. Snawley, looking at the poor little urchin as if he were some extraordinary natural curiosity.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

"I mean that such efforts never come to anything."
— from The Vicar of Bullhampton by Anthony Trollope

As to his state after death, opinion varied at different times under different influences, but the simple early notion, connected especially with the practice of burial as opposed to cremation, [6] was that his spirit just sank into the earth, where it rested and returned from time to time to the upper world through certain openings in the ground ( mundi ), whose solemn uncovering was one of the regular observances of the festal calendar: later, no doubt, a more spiritual notion prevailed, though it never reached definiteness or universality.
— from The Religion of Ancient Rome by Cyril Bailey

Knowing, as she did, that the inmates of government house were prepared for the attack, she felt assured that few, if any, of the Caribs would escape; but completely altered in disposition, from the effects of the horrible scenes she had gone through, she experienced no compunctious feelings for the event.
— from Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume 1 (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Mrs. Lanaghan

] instead of radiation; or to acquaintance with intrinsically better stoves either not connected to any flues or connected to one deficient in exhausting power.
— from Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use A Practical Handbook on the Production, Purification, and Subsequent Treatment of Acetylene for the Development of Light, Heat, and Power by W. J. Atkinson (William John Atkinson) Butterfield

South Weymouth, Mrs. William Dyer, for Jos. K. Brick, A. I. and N. Sch., Enfield, N. C. , 25.25.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 52, No. 02, June, 1898 by Various

East to eastern Maryland (Pocomoke River Swamp); eastern Virginia (Warwick County and Dismal Swamp); eastern North Carolina (New Bern, Lake Ellis, and Red Springs); eastern South Carolina (Summerton, Charleston, and Yemassee); eastern Georgia (Savannah and Okefinokee Swamp); and northeastern Florida (Jacksonville).
— from Life Histories of North American Wood Warblers, Part One and Part Two by Arthur Cleveland Bent

but that grief over such afflictions is easier to bear than grief over the consequences of our own wrong-doing; memory preserves this last the longer; sorrow is not so enduring, nor cuts so deep, as remorse.
— from Judith Shakespeare: Her love affairs and other adventures by William Black