The Athenians held an assembly and, after hearing from the Egestaeans and their own envoys a report, as attractive as it was untrue, upon the state of affairs generally, and in particular as to the money, of which, it was said, there was abundance in the temples and the treasury, voted to send sixty ships to Sicily, under the command of Alcibiades, son of Clinias, Nicias, son of Niceratus, and Lamachus, son of Xenophanes, who were appointed with full powers; they were to help the Egestaeans against the Selinuntines, to restore Leontini upon gaining any advantage in the war, and to order all other matters in Sicily as they should deem best for the interests of Athens.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

This analysis of the world's collective values and their ascription to a certain "will to power" may now seem to many but an exhaustive attempt at a new system of nomenclature, and little else.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Human nature, then, has for its core the substance of nature at large, and is one of its more complex formations.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

And in this argument nearly every one, Athenian and stranger alike, would be on your side, if you should bring witnesses in disproof of my statement;—you may, if you will, summon Nicias the son of Niceratus, and let his brothers, who gave the row of tripods which stand in the precincts of Dionysus, come with him; or you may summon Aristocrates, the son of Scellius, who is the giver of that famous offering which is at Delphi; summon, if you will, the whole house of Pericles, or any other great Athenian family whom you choose;—they will all agree with you: I only am left alone and cannot agree, for you do not convince me; although you produce many false witnesses against me, in the hope of depriving me of my inheritance, which is the truth.
— from Gorgias by Plato

Folk-lore, a century ago was considered beneath the serious consideration of scholars; but there has come about a complete reversal of scholarly opinion, for now it is seen that the beliefs of the people, their legends, and their songs are the source of nearly all literatures, and that their institutions and customs are the origin of those of modern times.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

I suppose, therefore, that you might despise the slothfulness of Nero, and, like limbs of the body that are broken or dislocated, you did then lie quiet, waiting for some other time, though still with a malicious intention, and have now showed your distemper to be greater than ever, and have extended your desires as far as your impudent and immense hopes would enable you to do it.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

The Boy Geologist at School and in Camp E. G. Houston The Earth and Its Story A. Heilprin rn The Romance of Modern Geology Grew Lippincott REPTILES Poisonous Snakes of North America Leonard Stejneger Gov. Printing Office The Reptile Book Ditmar Doubleday, Page & Co. {376} SHELLS AND SHELLFISH American Marine Shells.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

Meantime, in shades of night Aeneas lies: Care seiz’d his soul, and sleep forsook his eyes.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

He is a worthy successor of Newton and La Place, for he has a vigorous imagination, which easily scans the future and presents what I deem antiquated theories, sustained by traditional facts.
— from The Universe a Vast Electric Organism by Geo. W. (George Woodward) Warder

Bernardino Luini runs him close, but great as Bernardino Luini was, Gaudenzio, in spite of not a little mannerism, was greater.
— from Ex Voto: An Account of the Sacro Monte or New Jerusalem at Varallo-Sesia With Some Notice of Tabachetti's Remaining Work at the Sanctuary of Crea by Samuel Butler

For if a professed act can only be viewed as the recessary [pg 165] and immediate repetition of another act, if assent is a sort of reproduction and double of an act of inference, if when inference determines that a proposition is somewhat, or not a little, or a good deal, or very like truth, assent as its natural and normal counterpart says that it is somewhat, or not a little, or a good deal, or very like truth, then I do not see what we mean by saying, or why we say at all, that there is any such act.
— from An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent by John Henry Newman

This sufficeth me, for my present occasion, to have, by the above declared Examples, discovered and demonstrated, without extending such matters farther, and, as I might have done, into a long Treatise: yea, but that there was a necessity of resolving the above proposed doubt, I should have contented my self with that only, which is demonstrated by Archimedes , in his first Book De Insidentibus humido : where in generall termes he infers and confirms the same Of Natation (a) Lib. 1, Prop.
— from A Discourse Presented to the Most Serene Don Cosimo II., Great Duke of Tuscany, Concerning the Natation of Bodies Vpon, and Submersion In, the Water. by Galileo Galilei

‘It is not yet a week since that same Atlee envied me my station as the son and heir to this place, and owned to me that there was that in the sense of name and lineage
— from Lord Kilgobbin by Charles James Lever

But, whether it were the majesty of death, or something originally noble and lofty in the character of the dead, which the soul had stamped upon the features, as it left them; so it was that Miriam now quailed and shook, not for the vulgar horror of the spectacle, but for the severe, reproachful glance that seemed to come from between those half-closed lids.
— from The Marble Faun; Or, The Romance of Monte Beni - Volume 1 by Nathaniel Hawthorne

It is to be hoped that the study of native American languages may before long receive that attention which it so fully deserves.
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, March 1885 by Various

Fishermen come to the river here to catch fish with all sorts of nets and lines.
— from More Jataka Tales by Ellen C. Babbitt

The shades of night at last closed in, and here was the poor helpless widow sitting like a pelican, alone and cheerless.
— from The History of the Highland Clearances Second Edition, Altered and Revised by Alexander Mackenzie

and we thanked God, as we beheld the Gersau children making their genuflections with serious little countenances, that there is still one nook at least left in this world where the demon of heresy and unbelief has not penetrated, and where piety and reverence are, from earliest childhood, taught to go hand-in-hand with modern life.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 19, April 1874‐September 1874 by Various