There is a sense in which much of the orthodox system of political economy is eternally true.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

"Permit me to put one question to you on the vast subject of professional experience," observed the Count.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

The important port of Utica having been given up to the Romans, an immense fleet was employed in transporting to this point eighty thousand foot-soldiers and four thousand horses; Carthage was besieged, and the son of Paulus Emilius and adopted son of the great Scipio had the glory of completing the victory which Emilius and Scipio had begun, by destroying the bitter rival of his country.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

What he flung himself against, from beginning to end of his days of writing, was always, in the last analysis, Christianity in some form or other—Christianity as a system of practical ethics, Christianity as a political code, Christianity as meta physics, Christianity as a gauge of the truth.
— from The Antichrist by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

He remembered how his brother, while at the university, and for a year afterwards, had, in spite of the jeers of his companions, lived like a monk, strictly observing all religious rites, services, and fasts, and avoiding every sort of pleasure, especially women.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

But Mr. Churton Collins has not the least hesitation in throwing over the tradition which has the warrant of antiquity and setting up in its stead this ridiculous invention, for which not only is there no shred of positive evidence, but which, as Lord Campbell and Lord Penzance point out, is really put out of court by the negative evidence, since "no young man could have been at work in an attorney's office without being called upon continually to act as a witness, and in many other ways leaving traces of his work and name."
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

Nothing could be more delicious, and as I held her fast, I was myself in a state of perfect ecstasy.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

One readily understands the importance which the determination of the point of departure has for this series of progressive explanations, for all the others are attached to it.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Hence it follows that the pure category is incompetent to establish a synthetical a priori principle, and that the principles of the pure understanding are only of empirical and never of transcendental use, and that beyond the sphere of possible experience
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

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— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

At this time the sense of physical exhaustion had become so great that it required an effort to perform the most common act.
— from The Opium Habit by Horace B. Day

In the completed constitutional state, in which the monarch in but an infinitesimally small degree is a subject of private economic interests, he tends to be almost completely “an official.”
— from The State: Its History and Development Viewed Sociologically by Franz Oppenheimer

In the ninth number of that remarkable series of political essays, he quotes, adopts, and applies to the then proposed Constitution, Montesquieu's description of a " CONFEDERATE REPUBLIC ," a term which he (Hamilton) repeatedly employs.
— from The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1 by Jefferson Davis

But he did not take long to collect himself for the Bithynian's beauty filled him with profound feeling and it was with a sort of pious exaltation that he grasped the plastic material and moulded it into a form resembling his sitter.
— from The Emperor — Volume 07 by Georg Ebers

Many of them were exceedingly wealthy, while some of them found it difficult to procure the means of existence, and all of them suffered greatly from the financial burdens imposed upon them in the shape of pensions, etc., by the king or by the family by whom their endowments were provided originally.
— from History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French Revolution — Volume 2 by James MacCaffrey

[1] officer of the Austrian Government, who lives in a state of perpetual excommunication.
— from Eothen; Or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East by Alexander William Kinglake

I had started from home, notwithstanding my mother’s white face and nervous, trembling manner, in a state of pleasurable excitement.
— from Mr. Marx's Secret by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

From this man Vivian learnt that Lady Madeleine Trevor had been at the Baths for some time before the season commenced: that at present hers was the party which, from its long stay and eminent rank, gave the tone to the amusements of the place; the influential circle which those who have frequented watering-places have often observed, and which may be seen at Ems, Spa, or Pyrmont, equally as at Harrowgate, Tunbridge Wells, or Cheltenham.
— from Vivian Grey by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield