Here we sung several good things, but I am more and more confirmed that singing with many voices is not singing, but a sort of instrumental musique, the sense of the words being lost by not being heard, and especially as they set them with Fuges of words, one after another, whereas singing properly, I think, should be but with one or two voices at most and the counterpoint.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

"Sitting patient in the shadow
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

Sometimes in both Democratic and Republican States the progressives get control of the party locally and then the reactionaries recapture the same party in the same State; or this process is reversed.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

But much the safest plan is to speak of them as follows:—Anything which we see to be continually changing, as, for example, fire, we must not call 'this' or 'that,' but rather say that it is 'of such a nature'; nor let us speak of water as 'this'; but always as 'such'; nor must we imply that there is any stability in any of those things which we indicate by the use of the words 'this' and 'that,' supposing ourselves to signify something thereby; for they are too volatile to be detained in any such expressions as 'this,' or 'that,' or 'relative to this,' or any other mode of speaking which represents them as permanent.
— from Timaeus by Plato

In an intelligible region, unknown to cosmography and peopled at first by the Platonic ideas and afterward by Aristotle's solitary God, there was now the Absolute One, too exalted for any predicates, but manifesting its essence in the first place in a supreme Intelligence, the second hypostasis of a Trinity; and in the second place in the Soul of the World, the third hypostasis, already relative to natural existence.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

H2 anchor CHAPTER XXX Miss Crawford's uneasiness was much lightened by this conversation, and she walked home again in spirits which might have defied almost another week of the same small party in the same bad weather, had they been put to the proof; but as that very evening brought her brother down from London again in quite, or more than quite, his usual cheerfulness, she had nothing farther to try her own.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Enactments come into use when conscious purposes are formed, and it is believed that specific devices can be framed by which to realize such purposes in the society.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Faith, in such case, if you should prosecute, I think Sir Godfrey should decide the suit: Who sent the thief that stole the cash away, And punished him that put it in his way.
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope

To the same purpose is that saying of his in the first chapter of Ecclesiastes, In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow .
— from In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts by Desiderius Erasmus

The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City of London.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

At times pathetic scenes prevailed in the selling of slaves; namely, the separation of mother and child.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Kentucky Narratives by United States. Work Projects Administration

Elsewhere, if the authority of the judges is duly enforced, minute precautions are taken against their accidental or interested errors; they are ordered to enact their sentences in public, prohibited from holding property within the limits of their residence, and threatened with severe penalties if they should listen to the insinuations of informers.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various

So an order was issued defining darkness to the sanitary police: if the sink in the hall could be made out, and the slops overflowing on the floor, and if a baby could be seen on the stairs, the hall was light; if, on the other hand, the baby's shrieks were the first warning that it was being trampled upon, the hall was dark.
— from The Battle with the Slum by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

Statistics show, particularly in the second generation, a notable increase in juvenile delinquency, and this seems to be due to the fact that in America the relation between parents and children is reversed.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess