Meanwhile the main body of the troops in the island (that under Epitadas), seeing their outpost cut off and an army advancing against them, serried their ranks and pressed forward to close with the Athenian heavy infantry in front of them, the light troops being upon their flanks and rear.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

But this soul, which is compounded of either of the four principles from which we assert that all things are derived, is of inflamed air, as seems particularly to have been the opinion of Panætius, and must necessarily mount upward; for air and fire have no tendency downward, but always ascend; so should they be dissipated that must be at some distance from the earth; but should they remain, and preserve their original state, it is clearer still that they must be carried heavenward, and this gross and concrete air, which is nearest the earth, must be divided and broken by them; for the soul is warmer, or rather hotter, than that air, which I just now called gross and concrete: and this may be made evident from this consideration—that our bodies, being compounded of the earthy class of principles, grow warm by the heat of the soul.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

This practice accounts for the fact that learning makes most men more stupid and foolish than they are by nature, and prevents their writings from being a success; they remain, as Pope has said, "For ever reading, never to be read.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

Capt. Clark set out early this morning with five men to examine the country and survey the river and portage as had been concerted last evening.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Every author who starts to rewrite a piece of work knows how impossible it becomes to use any of the first-written pages again.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

I.3 All seems to concur towards the opinion that, if not Plutarch, at least one of his contemporaries wrote the most xix original Greek essay in its kind since the Rhetoric and Poetic of Aristotle.”
— from On the Sublime by active 1st century Longinus

Till I had discovered the art of destroying the memory a parte post, without injury to its future operations, and without detriment to the judgment, I should suppress the request as premature; and therefore, however much I may wish to be read with an unprejudiced mind, I do not presume to state it as a necessary condition.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

But if we confine ourselves to such ends as the common sense of mankind appears to accept as rational ultimate ends, the task is reduced, I think, within manageable limits; since this criterion will exclude at least many of the objects which men practically seem to regard as paramount.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

And in the Lord was shewed the ruth and pity of Adam's woe, and in the Lord was shewed the high nobility and the endless worship that Mankind is come to by the virtue of the Passion and death of His dearworthy Son.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

At each stroke, which he felt in his heart, he found strength to rehearse a pious ejaculation: "Thou art just, O Lord!
— from History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 by Edward Gibbon

In fact R. Southey, the reliable and painstaking historian, says [32] that "The Portuguese were held in subjection only by fear, but many Portuguese Jews from Holland had taken their abode in a country where they could speak their own language as well as enjoy their own religion.
— from The American Jew as Patriot, Soldier and Citizen by Simon Wolf

The consciousness that his tartan was the subject of discussion made the Jew give way to such vehement ejaculations of anxiety, that Servadac turned round and peremptorily ordered him to desist from his clamor.
— from Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space by Jules Verne

But "writing for the stage is also a trade that one must acquire"; and when Stevenson sought to acquire it he apprenticed himself to Skelt not to Sardou, to Redington and Pollock, not to Augier and Dumas.
— from A Book About the Theater by Brander Matthews

We are said to reason a priori , when we show the agreement or disagreement of any thing with a reasonable and social nature; but a posteriori , when without absolute proof, but only upon probability, any thing is inferred to accord with the law of nature, because it is received as such among all, or at least the more civilized nations.
— from The Rights of War and Peace by Hugo Grotius

"To carry a handkerchief on the Sabbath," as Zunser says, "to read a pamphlet of the 'new Haskalah,' {241} or commit some other transgression of the sort, was sufficient to stamp one an apikoros (heretic)."
— from The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Jacob S. (Jacob Salmon) Raisin

Besides its evil effects on the abdominal organs, the lungs also suffer, the ribs are prevented from expanding and so the wearer can never breathe as deeply as is necessary.
— from Papers on Health by John Kirk

It is always discouraging, to begin over again a laborious task, and exert one's self to recover a position we had already occupied.
— from Caleb Williams; Or, Things as They Are by William Godwin

See this ring, a portrait of Washington, painted on copper, and covered with glass.
— from Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline: A Story of the Development of a Young Girl's Life by Conklin, Nathaniel, Mrs.

Thus that day had as much to do with the love of the case as the far-detached six weeks; though they had served to ripen, and perfect, and mature a passion of which but one solitary seed had been sown before.
— from A Whim, and Its Consequences Collection of British Authors Vol. CXIV by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James