Each Body-corporate, each privileged, each organised Class has secret hopes of its own in that matter; and also secret misgivings of its own,—for, behold, this monstrous twenty-million Class, hitherto the dumb sheep which these others had to agree about the manner of shearing, is now also arising with hopes!
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

"According to Article 68 of the Constitution, considering that printed placards beginning with these words, 'The President of the Republic' and ending with the signatures, 'Louis Napoléon Bonaparte' and 'De Morny, Minister of the Interior,' the said placards ordaining amongst other measures the dissolution of the National Assembly, have been posted to-day on the walls of Paris, that this fact of the dissolution of the National Assembly by the President of the Republic would be of the nature to constitute the case provided for by Article 68 of the Constitution, and renders, in the terms of the aforesaid article, the meeting of the High Court indispensable.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

They are all the more exasperated by blows and constraint.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

"My poor little Alicia," said Robert, as tenderly as if he had been addressing some spoiled child, "do you suppose that because people don't wear vinegar tops, or part their hair on the wrong side, or conduct themselves altogether after the manner of well-meaning maniacs, by way of proving the vehemence of their passion—do you suppose because of this, Alicia Audley, that they may not be just as sensible of the merits of a dear little warm-hearted and affectionate girl as ever their neighbors can be?
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

When Cortes found that all attempts to make peace were fruitless, he ordered the small vessels and boats to prepare for battle.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

That of the Romans (I call Romans, for the most part, those who, after the subjugation of Greece, betook themselves to Rome, whither all that there was of the good and of the beautiful in the world was carried)—that, I say, is so beautiful, by reason of the expressions, the attitudes, and the movements both of the nude and of the draped figures, that it may be said that they wrested the beautiful from all the other provinces and moulded it into one single manner, to the end that it might be, as it is, the best—nay, the most divine of all.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

No more subtle master under heaven / Than 20 is the maiden-passion for a maid, / Not only to keep down the base in man, / But teach high thought, and amiable words / And courtliness, and the desire of fame, / And love of truth, and all that makes a man.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

They tried also to separate and arrange them, to the best of their abilities, and to make the various parts of their history correspond.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

were it a new-made world, and made for a summer-house to the angels, and this morning the first of its throwing open to them, a fairer day could not dawn upon that world.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

There is already one bed in it; and I will give orders to add all that may be [Pg 314] requisite for the accommodation of yourself and family, until Madame d'Harville is enabled to find an eligible abode for you.
— from The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 2 of 6 by Eugène Sue

The young renew their amours, and the more aged sit yawning for the day of judgment.—But I scent the rosy air of dawn.
— from The Heroine by Eaton Stannard Barrett

Men felt that, after all, what was important was the aim and the means used in pursuing it.
— from Luther, vol. 6 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

There were three or four men in the bar, dried-up looking mummies they seemed to me, but very friendly, for they began at once to mix in the conversation, and after I had told everybody all round where I came from, how old I was, what I could do, how long I had been in the country, and a lot more besides, they held a consultation among themselves, and agreed that my best plan was to go up on the sugar plantations on the Herbert River.
— from Missing Friends Being the Adventures of a Danish Emigrant in Queensland (1871-1880) by Thorvald Peter Ludwig Weitemeyer

" On another occasion, at a public hall at the county town— "The Portsmouths, Dorchesters, Boltons, Portals, and Clerks were there, and all the meaner and more usual etc., etcs.
— from Jane Austen and Her Country-house Comedy by W. H. (William Henry) Helm

A whirlwind of applause swept through the assembly and the masses outside the church.
— from American Leaders and Heroes: A preliminary text-book in United States History by Wilbur F. (Wilbur Fisk) Gordy

Vespers are therefore sung immediately after the mass of the Presanctified: they consist of the Our Father and Hail Mary said in secret, of five psalms with their anthems, and the Magnificat with its anthem.
— from The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome by Charles Michael Baggs

He had brought them all along to make his errand "look like business."
— from Aunt Jane's Nieces at Millville by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum