He speaks only of inner things: “life” or “truth” or “light” is his word for the innermost—in his sight everything else, the whole of reality, all nature, even language, has significance only as sign, as allegory.—Here it is of paramount importance to be led into no error by the temptations lying in Christian, or rather ecclesiastical prejudices: such a symbolism par excellence stands outside all religion, all notions of worship, all history, all natural science, all worldly experience, all knowledge, all politics, all psychology, all books, all art—his “wisdom” is precisely a pure ignorance
— from The Antichrist by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Then he began slowly to mount the street, pausing every step or two and putting his hand to his brow like a man in mental perplexity.
— from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

This was the case of several physicians, even some of them the most eminent, and of several of the most skilful surgeons.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

The only p. 233 alteration I could have desired in Miss Matty’s way of doing business was, that she should not have so plaintively entreated some of her customers not to buy green tea—running it down as a slow poison, sure to destroy the nerves, and produce all manner of evil.
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

The cavalry of Armorica, the spearmen of Gwent, and the archers of Merioneth, were equally formidable; but their poverty could seldom procure either shields or helmets; and the inconvenient weight would have retarded the speed and agility of their desultory operations.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Quosvis auctores absurdis commentis suis percacant et stercorant , one saith, they bewray and daub a company of books and good authors, with their absurd comments, correctorum sterquilinia
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Under provision of the Act of Union of 1707, when a new parliament is summoned the whole body of Scottish peers elects sixteen of their number (p. 099) to sit as their representatives at Westminster.
— from The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg

[Footnote 2: On Geulincx see V. van der Haeghen, Geulincx, Étude sur sa Vie, sa Philosophie, et ses Ouvrages , Ghent, 1886, including a complete bibliography; and Land in vol.
— from History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg

The one opposite to that by which Sir Payan entered stood open, though a small wooden bar prevented the entrance of the crowd into the room beyond, which was occupied by six or seven ordinary clerks, busily employed in filling up various papers, and speaking from time to time to the persons who presented themselves on business.
— from Darnley; or, The Field of the Cloth of Gold by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Fill the meat loosely into the shells, place each shell on a pretty paper doily on a plate, and spread over a thick layer of mayonnaise dressing, with which you have mixed a tablespoonful of chopped parsley, a tablespoonful of tarragon leaves, a tablespoonful of chopped onion or shallot, and a tablespoonful of green chives.
— from Ice Creams, Water Ices, Frozen Puddings Together with Refreshments for all Social Affairs by S. T. Rorer

The press, however, was enthusiastic, and substantial people everywhere spoke of it as having the "right ring," as being the utterance of a "safe, clean man whom the politicians can't frighten or fool."
— from The Conflict by David Graham Phillips

The original unit was the silver penny, estelin (sterling) or denier (L. denarius ) of 24 French grains; 12 deniers made a sol or sou (L. solidus , shilling) and 20 sols made the livre or pound, originally a livre d’estelins, a 12-ounce pound of sterlings.
— from Men and Measures by Edward Nicholson

The principles of trade have so pervaded every species of dealing, from the highest to the lowest objects, all transactions are got so much into system, that we may, at a moment's warning, and to a farthing value, be informed at what rate any service may be supplied.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Edmund Burke