The statement of Plato that philosophers should be kings may best be understood as a statement that rational intelligence and not habit, appetite, impulse, and emotion should regulate human affairs.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

This was a Phœnician colony, on the eastern side of the Gulf of Issus; it is said by Ansart still to retain its ancient name.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

And since they reached it at night, there were constant arrivals, shouts, and talk of those who sought shelter and got it.
— from Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Καταλέγω, ( κατά & λέγω ) f. ξω, to select; to reckon in a number, enter in a list or catalogue, enrol.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

“That’s the trouble––your father has gone on paying your bills, and you don’t seem to realize I am not an enormously rich man––and never will be, abnormal business conditions having ceased.
— from The Gorgeous Girl by Nalbro Bartley

I thought a part of their conversation might be useful, and I shall, therefore, relate it, as nearly as I can recollect, leaving each individual to draw her own inferences.
— from The Teacher Or, Moral Influences Employed in the Instruction and Government of the Young by Jacob Abbott

It is only a rough contrast, of course, the first and main difference between them that strikes the eye; comparing them more closely, one might find other divergences that would set their relation in a new light.
— from The Craft of Fiction by Percy Lubbock

These men and women in our churches and schools who have given themselves in consecration and sacrifice to this service are leading those who have been crushed by oppressions and wrongs of men, and who have been degraded in ignorance and in sin, to rise into a new life, and into new habits of thought and feeling.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 44, No. 02, February, 1890 by Various

She tolerates resistance in a non-Catholic state no more than in a Catholic state to the prince; and if she has not condemned and cut off from her communion the Catholics who in our struggle have joined the Secessionists and fought in their ranks against the United States, it is because the prevalence of the doctrine of State sovereignty has seemed to leave a reasonable doubt whether they were really rebels fighting against their legitimate sovereign or not.
— from The American Republic: Its Constitution, Tendencies, and Destiny by Orestes Augustus Brownson

Sentinels tramped round it all night long, their muskets glittering in the wintry moonlight as they walked, or stood before the doors, straight and silent, as figures of stone, causing one to conjure up romantic visions of guarded forts, sudden surprises, and daring deeds; for in these war times the hum drum life of Yankeedom had vanished, and the most prosaic feel some thrill of that excitement which stirs the nation's heart, and makes its capital a camp of hospitals.
— from Hospital Sketches by Louisa May Alcott

But since the road is, admittedly, neither of the straightest
— from The Irish Constitution Explained by Darrell Figgis by Darrell Figgis

Where else would credence have been given to the phenomenon of a crystal that seemed to radiate in a nonelectromagnetic way?
— from The Great Gray Plague by Raymond F. Jones

Such turnings round into a new attitude the world has seen on a less extensive scale before.
— from The World Set Free by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

“This is a revival of a method which, although Mr Fownes seems to regard it as new, is to be found in the ‘Chemistry’ of Boerhaave” (‘Lancet.’)
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson