In a second important respect Rousseau differentiates himself from Hobbes.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

How sadly, I remember, rose the morning of the year!
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

"The birds filled the tree-tops with their morning song, making the air moist, cool, and pleasant," is a sentence I remember reading once in a report of some athletic exercises in Jerome Park.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Further, the difficulty of winning fame by any given work stands in reverse ratio to the number of people who are likely to read it; and hence it is so much harder to become famous as the author of a learned work than as a writer who aspires only to amuse.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer

They succeeded in rendering Roderick insensible; but, placing their hands upon his breast, they were inexpressibly horror stricken to feel the monster wriggling, twining, and darting to and fro within his narrow limits, evidently enlivened by the opium or alcohol, and incited to unusual feats of activity.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

She is Russian, Russian to the marrow of her bones; she will be homesick for the mother country, and I shall see every hour that she is suffering for my sake, that she has taken up that cross for me.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

" "There are much more splendid stories in Revelation," returned Sara.
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

47. (1) Every idea of mine, that cannot be expressed as a Syllogism, is really ridiculous; (2) None of my ideas about Bath-buns are worth writing down; (3)
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

The green corns of Wheat being chewed, and applied to the place bitten by a mad dog, heals it; slices of Wheat bread soaked in red rose water, and applied to the eyes that are hot, red, and inflamed, or blood-shotten, helps them.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

A game of whist, or to some extent bridge, in which considerable skill is required, rests on a somewhat different footing: but even of that we should be wise to exercise a careful control.
— from The Priestly Vocation A Series of Fourteen Conferences Addressed to the Secular Clergy by Bernard Ward

Maunds of Paddy Maunds of rice Total value in Rupees Average price per 100 baskets of 12 seers, in Rupees Rice Paddy 1831-32 380,600 28,970 130,591 15.4 to 16.6 8 to 9 1832-33 502,740 175,560 232,915 16 to 17 7.5 to 8 1833-34 555,540 418,950 430,830 19 to 20 9 to 0 1834-35 127,050 260,650 176,717 18 to 19 8 to 9 1835-36 783,870 548,460 354,791 10 to 11 5 to 5.8 1836-37 1,737,841 641,010 666,732 10.8 to 12 5 to 6 1837-38 1,621,566 248,783 650,385 21 to 23 9 to 10.8 1838-39 1,364,100 332,380 821,168 24 to 25.1 8.8 to 11.12 1839-40 2,033,698 529,961 1,121,311 21.8 to 23 9.8 to 10 1840-41 2,212,068 446,941 1,131,087 20 to 21.8 10 to 11 1841-42 1,265,388 270,000 553,014 19 to 20 8 to 9 1842-43 1,310,900 393,900 472,889 14 to 15 7.8 to 8 1843-44 848,922 707,780 633,710 17 to 18 7 to 8 (" Colonial Magazine," vol.
— from The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by P. L. (Peter Lund) Simmonds

The reason it has remained in a germinal state in recent religions—Christianity and Islamism—is that in the latter Mohammed did not attain to the degree of a Hierophant, and in all likelihood the race to which he brought light did not greatly need to become acquainted with the law relating to the return to earth life; whereas in the former the real teachings of the Christ were lost when the Gnostics [244] were exterminated, and Eusebius and Irenæus, the founders of exoteric Christianity, unable to grasp the spirit , imposed the letter throughout the religion.
— from Reincarnation: A Study in Human Evolution by Théophile Pascal

Compared with Egyptian architecture, 145. Element of superiority in Roman roofs, 331.
— from A History of Architecture in All Countries, Volume 2, 3rd ed. From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by James Fergusson

Somewhat in rear rose a plateau, from which the plain of the Alle might be battered.
— from The Camp-fires of Napoleon Comprising The Most Brilliant Achievemnents of the Emperor and His Marshals by Henry C. (Henry Clay) Watson

During the persecutions in the fall of 1838, one of the brethren happened to be a stranger in Richmond, Ray Co., Missouri, a distance of some thirty or forty miles from Far West, in Caldwell county, where the Saints dwelt.
— from Scraps of Biography Tenth Book of the Faith-Promoting Series. Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-day Saints by Various

With all respect to the good Dr. Egan, I doubt she follows the doings of Inquisitors on St. Ignatius, while I have heard rumors that one has had some success in regrowing removed organs, with restoration of full function."
— from The Alembic Plot: A Terran Empire novel by Ann Wilson

" Suddenly I recalled Rama on stage at Centre meetings, wearing short red gym shorts, closing and spreading his legs, tonguing in a slow, circular fashion the insides of his mouth.
— from Take Me for a Ride: Coming of Age in a Destructive Cult by Mark E. Laxer