All our perceptions, according to him, consist in a partial participation in God's perceptions, and it is because of this participation that different people see more or less the same tree.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

Strange stories were told of them, of their savage mode of life, their scarcely intelligible language, their feeding on raw flesh, and their fierceness as soldiers.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

I am at leisure, and will endeavor to give you a full account; for to call Socrates to mind, whether speaking myself or listening to some one else, is always most delightful to me.
— from Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato

Will you send me one line to say whether I must strike out about the secondary whale, [180] it goes to my heart.
— from Charles Darwin: His Life Told in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters by Charles Darwin

In them thought opens or shuts, shines forth or goes out in darkness, hangs steadfast like the setting moon or like the swift and restless lightning illumines all quarters of the sky.
— from Stories from Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore

I think the Signorina must often long to see Sicily.”
— from A Spirit in Prison by Robert Hichens

If the lift of the heald is required [Pg 53] to be 4 inches, and the centre of the treadle bowl E ( Fig. 38 ) is situated 12 inches from the fulcrum of the treadle M, the heald being connected to the treadle at, say, 18 inches from the fulcrum, the lift or stroke of the tappet will be obtained as follows:— As 18 : 12 4 4 18 ) 48 ( 2⅔ lift of tappet 36 12 In some makes of looms the staves are connected to the treadles at a point between the fulcrum and the treadle bowl, the fulcrum being at the front of the loom.
— from Cotton Weaving and Designing 6th Edition by John T. Taylor

It was all a matter of course; to be sure, Mendelssohn or Liszt, the Schumanns or Joachim, would come in and make music, and I would listen devoutly enough many a time; but then, again, I could not always follow my inclinations.
— from Letters of Felix Mendelssohn to Ignaz and Charlotte Moscheles by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

If she did not kill herself or somebody else before she graduated, Miss Russell looked forward to a distinguished career for the tenant of Bedlam; so, as I have said, she was tender and patient with her; and good Miss Carey mended her when she could, and saw that she remembered to eat her dinner, and Miss Boyle and Miss Mink rejoiced over her, and Miss Cortlandt led her gently through English literature, giving her Walton and Bacon and all the scientific men of letters that she could find.
— from Peggy by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

Over a great portion of Europe we should find the same mode of life, the same manners and customs, and the same degree of nascent civilisation.
— from Primitive Man by Louis Figuier

The restlessness and poverty of the [Pg 4] masses; the agitations in Ireland, feebly, blindly protesting with dynamite and other rude weapons against foreign oppression; the shameful monopoly of land, the social haughtiness of the titled classes, the luxury and profligacy of the court—perhaps even at the opening of our story, poor England was hardly worse off.
— from The King's Men: A Tale of To-morrow by Robert Grant