You recognize these contrasts as familiar; well, in philosophy we have a very similar contrast expressed in the pair of terms 'rationalist' and 'empiricist,' 'empiricist' meaning your lover of facts in all their crude variety, 'rationalist' meaning your devotee to abstract and eternal principles.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

“But, thou, my poor knave,” said Cedric, turning about and embracing his Jester, “how shall I reward thee, who feared not to give thy body to chains and death instead of mine!—All forsook me, when the poor fool was faithful!”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

In spring the sun not only exerts an influence through the increased temperature of the air and earth, but its heat passes through ice a foot or more thick, and is reflected from the bottom in shallow water, and so also warms the water and melts the under side of the ice, at the same time that it is melting it more directly above, making it uneven, and causing the air bubbles which it contains to extend themselves upward and downward until it is completely honeycombed, and at last disappears suddenly in a single spring rain.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

He talked and told anecdotes, and every one listened to him with pleasure, not unmingled with awe; but none felt so much respect for him as did the elderly widow of a naval officer.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

While large places are much the most advantageous among a friendly people, smaller works are not without importance, not to arrest an enemy, who might mask them, but as they may materially aid the operations of an army in the field.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

‘Bravo, old fellow!’ said Wardle to Mr. Tupman; ‘you fired that time, at all events.’
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

I should explain the change from 'you' to 'thou' in his speech by supposing that at first he is speaking to Albany and Edgar together.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

As those who are equal in one particular are not therefore equal in all, and those who are unequal in one particular are not therefore unequal in all, it follows that all those governments which are established upon a principle which supposes they are, are erroneous.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

At the present time the Japanese are trying to stir up anti-foreign feeling and make the Chinese believe the Americans and English are responsible for China not getting Shantung back, and also talking race discrimination for the same purpose.
— from Letters from China and Japan by Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey

We shall see how the absolute nature of his anarchism led Terry further and further along the path of rejection, "passing up" one thing after another, even letting anarchism as [216] a social enthusiasm go by the board and making his continued relation with a human being, even with Marie, a practical impossibility.
— from An Anarchist Woman by Hutchins Hapgood

Of course, the Calcutta shops are not so large and do not carry such extensive stocks as some dealers in our large cities, because they are almost entirely dependent upon the foreign population for patronage, and that is comparatively small.
— from Modern India by William Eleroy Curtis

It was the first time they had found themselves alone, and each was anxious to question the other concerning the time of absence.
— from A Houseful of Girls by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

Then they said to Adam and Eve, "See all our husbands and our children?
— from The First Book of Adam and Eve by Rutherford Hayes Platt

My love is to thy mortal frailty bound, And first I'll bless thee as an earthly father, Praying that thou mayst smite thine enemies.
— from Lords and Lovers, and Other Dramas by Olive Tilford Dargan

Sickness prevailed to an alarming extent; it was not an uncommon thing to march half of the company to sick call, but not all who went were sick.
— from Reminiscences of the Nineteenth Massachusetts Regiment by John G. B. (John Gregory Bishop) Adams

For this purpose he selected two criminals, under sentence of death for the murder of a soldier, and offered them their liberty if they would make the ascent and erect the cross.
— from Crusoe's Island: A Ramble in the Footsteps of Alexander Selkirk With Sketches of Adventure in California and Washoe by J. Ross (John Ross) Browne

To avow an enthusiasm, or an affection, generally seemed to him an indelicacy; only two or three people in the world knew what was the real quality of his heart.
— from The Marriage of William Ashe by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

It would seem like an easy thing to beguile a few individuals of this angry and excited multitude into the expression of some criminal desire; and the opportunity was not wholly lost, although the limited success of the detective under such favorable circumstances is absolutely wonderful.
— from The Life of Abraham Lincoln, from His Birth to His Inauguration as President by Ward Hill Lamon