I have little reason to believe, from certain warnings I have had since I returned to England, that it will be tenderly or favourably received by the American people; and as I have written the Truth in relation to the mass of those who form their judgments and express their opinions, it will be seen that I have no desire to court, by any adventitious means, the popular applause.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

291 Acknowledging that the literal sense is repugnant to every principle of faith as well as reason, they deem themselves secure and invulnerable behind the ample veil of allegory, which they carefully spread over every tender part of the Mosaic dispensation.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Yet the power of the pope has often been of great service in repressing the excesses of sovereigns, and in softening manners.—W. The history of the Italian republics proves the error of Gibbon, and
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

I also give them the little handmaid Somatale; and of my slaves, I ratify the emancipation of Molon, and Cimon, and Parmenon which I have already given them.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

Successively, it requires that each act be balanced with those which precede and come after, so that order of activity is achieved.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

But to be perfectly accurate, since you are such a lover of accuracy, we should say that the ruler, in so far as he is a ruler, is unerring, and, being unerring, always commands that which is for his own interest; and the subject is required to execute his commands; and therefore, as I said at first and now repeat, justice is the interest of the stronger.
— from The Republic by Plato

Curiosity is aroused, sympathy is ready to exhibit itself, and sociability is the order of the day.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

It was in that state I remembered that Ellen was asleep in your bed.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

Neither preparation nor study is required to enjoy them: they lay hold on you in the midst of your prejudices and your ignorance.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

The Catholic Unions which are so devotedly pursuing “studies” in respect to education, or some other society of young men anxious to promote their own intellectual culture, could not do better than to provide for the necessary expense of making and publishing these and similar translations.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 19, April 1874‐September 1874 by Various

In the great majority of Teleosteans a still further stage is reached, the endoskeletal elements, the basalia and radiale are almost entirely suppressed and the fin comes to consist entirely of ossified fin-rays of dermal origin.
— from The Vertebrate Skeleton by Sidney H. (Sidney Hugh) Reynolds

Esther started, supposing the speaker was going to give her some intelligence respecting the elopement.
— from Trevethlan: A Cornish Story. Volume 3 (of 3) by William Davy Watson

Monmouth had not understood her; he thought that the Gascon had succeeded in removing this emissary of William of Orange from Devil's Cliff; he did not know he had accompanied him as a prisoner.
— from A Romance of the West Indies by Eugène Sue

But I told her the story of some friends of mine who had been in a similar position and had succeeded in reorganising their establishment by an ingenious strategy.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-18 by Various

And while she wept to herself in solitude, and her brother Denzil wandered about in the gardens of the hotel, encouraging within himself hopes of winning the bewitching Ziska for a wife, Armand Gervase, shut up in his room under plea of slight indisposition, reviewed the emotions of the past night and tired to analyze them.
— from Ziska: The Problem of a Wicked Soul by Marie Corelli

The turning-point of evolution and of progressive civilisation will be when public opinion and state interests require that every man shall employ what talent he has, and every mere idler be treated as a defaulter or criminal.
— from Legends of Florence: Collected from the People, First Series by Charles Godfrey Leland

Still, I repeat, the Earth is richer, and mankind happier for the Dutch garden.
— from Garden-Craft Old and New by John Dando Sedding