Intimations of Immortality, Tintern Abbey, best lyrics and sonnets, in Selections, edited by Dowden (Athenaeum Press Series); selections and short poems, edited by M. Arnold, in Golden Treasury Series; Selections, also in Everyman's Library, Riverside Literature Series, Cassell's National Library, etc.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Indeed, the Syracusans no longer thought only of saving themselves, but also how to hinder the escape of the enemy; thinking, and thinking rightly, that they were now much the stronger, and that to conquer the Athenians and their allies by land and sea would win them great glory in Hellas.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

They cussed Jim considerble, though, and give him a cuff or two side the head once in a while, but Jim never said nothing, and he never let on to know me, and they took him to the same cabin, and put his own clothes on him, and chained him again, and not to no bed-leg this time, but to a big staple drove into the bottom log, and chained his hands, too, and both legs, and said he warn’t to have nothing but bread and water to eat after this till his owner come, or he was sold at auction because he didn’t come in a certain length of time, and filled up our hole, and said a couple of farmers with guns must stand watch around about the cabin every night, and a bulldog tied to the door in the daytime; and about this time they was through with the job and was tapering off with a kind of generl good-bye cussing, and then the old doctor comes and takes a look, and says: “Don’t be no rougher on him than you’re obleeged to, because he ain’t a bad nigger.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

There are brains like a South American jungle, as there are others like an Arabian desert, strewn with nothing but bones.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Republic I. A NALYSIS. … Here Thrasymachus, who has made several attempts to interrupt, but has hitherto been kept in order by the company, takes advantage of a pause and rushes into the arena, beginning, like a savage animal, with a roar.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

...Here Thrasymachus, who has made several attempts to interrupt, but has hitherto been kept in order by the company, takes advantage of a pause and rushes into the arena, beginning, like a savage animal, with a roar. 'Socrates,' he says, 'what folly is this?—Why do you agree to be vanquished by one another in a pretended argument?'
— from The Republic by Plato

And once convinced of it, he sees as clearly that to achieve that object, one must follow blindly the guidance of the wise spirit, the fearful spirit of death and destruction, hence accept a system of lies and deception and lead humanity consciously this time toward death and destruction, and moreover, be deceiving them all the while in order to prevent them from realizing where they are being led, and so force the miserable blind men to feel happy, at least while here on earth.
— from The Grand Inquisitor by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

No sooner he, with them of man and beast Select for life, shall in the ark be lodged, And sheltered round; but all the cataracts Of Heaven set open on the Earth shall pour Rain, day and night; all fountains of the deep, Broke up, shall heave the ocean to usurp Beyond all bounds; till inundation rise Above the highest hills: Then shall this mount Of Paradise by might of waves be moved Out of his place, pushed by the horned flood, With all his verdure spoiled, and trees adrift, Down the great river to the opening gulf, And there take root an island salt and bare, The haunt of seals, and orcs, and sea-mews' clang: To teach thee that God attributes to place No sanctity, if none be thither brought By men who there frequent, or therein dwell.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

7. Is not the strength and vigor of the action between Light and sulphureous Bodies observed above, one reason why sulphureous Bodies take fire more readily, and burn more vehemently than other Bodies do?
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

The forces that arrived by land and sea were united at the mouth of the Tyber.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The young wife governs them all, but like a spoilt and capricious child, and I think that the poor husband finds the path of marriage a somewhat thorny one.
— from Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino (Afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan), 1836-1840 by Dino, Dorothée, duchesse de

For pedagogic and possibly other reasons, the latter method seems to have been preferred by the authorities; but lecturers, and students who desire to get full notes, seem to have insisted upon dictation.
— from Readings in the History of Education Mediaeval Universities by Arthur O. Norton

It is best [26] viewed as a degeneration of the coats of the arteries, both large and small resulting in several different more or less distinct types.
— from Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension, with Chapters on Blood Pressure 3rd Edition. by Louis M. (Louis Marshall) Warfield

At that moment they arrived at the cross-way, called Livine, where stands a crucifix, and as the Orco approached near to it, he disappeared as suddenly as he had appeared; he neither sank into the earth, nor flew away through the air, but like a soap-bubble he vanished in an instant.
— from Tales and Legends of the Tyrol by Günther, Marie A., countess

He found them a bit loose, as string will stretch and really isn't very good with which to fasten wheels on.
— from Six Little Bunkers at Uncle Fred's by Laura Lee Hope

As an instance of the croonings Mrs. Parker gives the mother's song over her baby as soon as it begins to crawl:—- "Kind be, Do not steal, Do not touch what to another belongs, Leave all such alone, Kind be." { 164}
— from An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Religion by F. B. (Frank Byron) Jevons

RANDY AND HER FRIENDS BY AMY BROOKS AUTHOR OF RANDY'S SUMMER , RANDY'S WINTER , A JOLLY CAT TALE , DOROTHY DAINTY WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE AUTHOR BOSTON LEE AND SHEPARD 1902 COPYRIGHT, 1902, BY LEE AND SHEPARD Published August, 1902 All rights reserved RANDY AND HER FRIENDS Norwood press J.S. CUSHING & Co.—BERWICK & SMITH Norwood, Mass.
— from Randy and Her Friends by Amy Brooks

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— from The White Slaves of England by John C. Cobden