In general, all sentiments of blame or praise are variable, according to our situation of nearness or remoteness, with regard to the person blamed or praised, and according to the present disposition of our mind.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Those Ovid has not only so happily arranged, that they form a coherent series of narratives, one rising out of another; but he describes the different changes with such an imposing plausibility, as to give a natural appearance to the most incredible fictions.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

As for fowling, during the last years that I carried a gun my excuse was that I was studying ornithology, and sought only new or rare birds.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

And now, while the distant domes and spires of New Orleans rise to our view, there is yet time for an introduction to Miss Ophelia.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Hidalgo, meaning noble, is derived from ‘higo de albo’, son of somebody, and the people, whom the nobles call ‘higos de nade’, sons of nobody, often revenge themselves by calling the nobles hideputas, that is to say, sons of harlots.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

In selecting varieties, some experienced and judicious farmers prefer that which yields the greater number of ears, without regard to their size, or number of rows.
— 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

Congress thought this too liberal, but finally, under the stress of need of revenue which the high-minded, reverend lobbyist, Reverend Menasseh Cutler, was prepared through his company to furnish, acceded, with a reduction only of the proposed appropriation to the university.
— from The French in the Heart of America by John H. (John Huston) Finley

It will now require little effort to write simple original narratives of real or imagined experiences.
— from Higher Lessons in English: A work on English grammar and composition by Brainerd Kellogg

Thad, who had some knowledge of medicine, as we have seen on numerous occasions, really began to wonder whether the [Page 110] bulky man might not be getting perilously near the border line, and taking chances with a sudden attack of apoplexy, or else something else along those lines.
— from The Boy Scouts in the Rockies; Or, The Secret of the Hidden Silver Mine by Carter, Herbert, active 1909-1917

For a long time, as it seems to me, I have been talking of discoveries of books; discoveries in our own Llanddewi shelves, in the shelves of neighbours, on railway bookstalls.
— from Far Off Things by Arthur Machen

Hidalgo, meaning noble, is derived from 'higo de albo', son of somebody, and the people, whom the nobles call 'higos de nade', sons of nobody, often revenge themselves by calling the nobles hideputas, that is to say, sons of harlots.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 26: Spain by Giacomo Casanova

The desert to her appeared not dull and sterile, but flowery, a wondrous earthly paradise, lighted by a light such as shone on no other region.
— from The Death of the Gods (Christ and Antichrist, 1 of 3) by Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky

The lamentable ruin of once beautiful Arras, the desolation of Douai, and the villages between it and Valenciennes, the wanton destruction of what was once the heart of Cambrai, and that grim scene of the broken bridge on the Cambrai—Bapaume road, over the Canal du Nord, where we got out on a sombre afternoon, to look and look again at a landscape that will be famous through the world for generations: they rise again, with the sharpness of no ordinary recollection, on the inward vision.
— from Fields of Victory by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Sc o nc o rdánza, a discord, a discordance.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

Hence I shall of necessity only recapitulate the latest results in a series of the clearest and most obvious deductions possible, which the attentive reader will be able without difficulty to develop by his own reflection.
— from Degeneration by Max Simon Nordau