And when he had spent some time there, and collected some disciples, he again returned to Athens, in the time of Anaxicrates, and for some time studied philosophy, mingling with the rest of the philosophers; but subsequently, he some how or other established the school which was called after his name; and he used to say, that he began to study philosophy, when he was fourteen years of age; but Apollodorus, the Epicurean, in the first book of his account of the life of Epicurus, says, that he came to the study of philosophy, having conceived a great contempt for the grammarians, because they could not explain to him the statements in Hesiod respecting Chaos.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

Husband and Wife A few days later a young man named Ch’u Wang-sun arrived with the intention, as he said, of placing himself under the instruction of Chuang Shêng.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

And the task which the study of Polo has provided for the geographers of later days has been chiefly that of determining the true localities that his book describes under obsolete or corrupted names.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

The little book loses none of its interest through the criticism which finds in it only a traditional subject, handed on by one people to another; for after passing thus from hand to hand, its outline is still clear, its surface untarnished; and, like many other stories, books, literary and artistic conceptions of the middle age, it has come to have in this way a sort of personal history, almost as full of risk and adventure as that of its own heroes.
— from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater

And when she had worked upon the heralds to induce her brother to come, as soon as she reached the temple of the goddess, according to the agreement, and the darkness of night surrounded them, that so she might devise with him a cunning plan for her to take the mighty fleece of gold and return to the home of Aeetes, for, she said, the sons of Phrixus had given her by force to the strangers to carry off; with such beguiling words she scattered to the air and the breezes her witching charms, which even from afar would have drawn down the savage beast from the steep mountain-height.
— from The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius

It is a very trifling Character to be one of the most variable Beings of the most variable Kind, especially if we consider that He who is the great Standard of Perfection has in him no Shadow of Change, but is the same Yesterday, To-day, and for ever.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

The next best thing that could be done had been done—messengers had been sent off post haste to summon a certain Wesleyan missionary, who of all men had the greatest influence with the Ngatewhatua, and would be patiently heard by the Ngapuhi, although the hapu concerned were professedly converts to Roman Catholicism.
— from Brighter Britain! (Volume 2 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand by W. Delisle (William Delisle) Hay

Maude was the sort of person he could talk to, and talk was necessary....
— from The Little Moment of Happiness by Clarence Budington Kelland

Yet he paid him homage; he painted a series of pictures, Hogarthian in subject, and proved to the satisfaction of everybody, one would think, the absolute superiority of Hogarth.
— from Art in England: Notes and Studies by Dutton Cook

The Bengal Artillery came in for a large share of praise; he had a strong liking for them, having been with them on service , 2 and seen of what good stuff they were made.
— from Forty-one years in India: from subaltern to commander-in-chief by Roberts, Frederick Sleigh Roberts, Earl

When he attains to the state of perfection, he will receive these qualities; his heart becomes purified, his spirit enlightened, his soul is sensitized and tender—all through his great strength.
— from A Compilation on Bahá'í Education by Universal House of Justice

The vague echoes of shuffling movements were now quite plainly heard, and still there was no sign from Emu Bill; probably he had not yet become aware of the ominous sounds, or perhaps he was, as the Shadow had suggested, too much engrossed with a congenial task to grasp their true significance.
— from The Lost Explorers: A Story of the Trackless Desert by Alexander MacDonald

Even the station of prophethood hath been his birthright."
— from The Kitáb-i-Aqdas by Bahá'u'lláh

The wonders of the Louvre extracted no sign of pleasure: he paced the rooms with hurried steps, in apathy, roused only by the sight of an Antinous sculptured in alabaster, “Gracious Heaven!”
— from The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 1 (of 7) by Arthur Thomas Malkin

Of all the bishops only Thomas of Marmarica, and Secundus of Ptolemais, held out against the threat of banishment by the Emperor.
— from Studies in the Scriptures, Volume 7: The Finished Mystery by C. T. (Charles Taze) Russell

The subject of "Parsifal" had always been disagreeable to him, but he had not been able to find any argument against the art of it.
— from Evelyn Innes by George Moore