Marco's statements as to size do not surpass those of the admirable Kampfer: "In size they so much surpass the common sheep that it is not unusual to see them as tall as a donkey, whilst all are much more than three feet; and as to the tail I shall not exceed the truth, though I may exceed belief, if I say that it sometimes reaches 40 lbs.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

The notion that "applied" knowledge is somehow less worthy than "pure" knowledge, was natural to a society in which all useful work was performed by slaves and serfs, and in which industry was controlled by the models set by custom rather than by intelligence.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

This sets us the problem of determining whether the similar cases with which we compare the present one really are similar and if they are known in sufficiently large numbers to exclude everything else.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

So that they alwaies kept in store a pretext, either of Justice, or Religion, to discharge themselves of their obedience, whensoever they had hope to prevaile.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

And meeting with friends, they always kissed in salutation, as do the Venetians: “Gratatusque darem cum dulcibus oscula verbis.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

These Gauls, therefore, are kept in servitude by twelve hundred soldiers, which are hardly so many as are their cities; nor hath the gold dug out of the mines of Spain been sufficient for the support of a war to preserve their liberty, nor could their vast distance from the Romans by land and by sea do it; nor could the martial tribes of the Lusitanians and Spaniards escape; no more could the ocean, with its tide, which yet was terrible to the ancient inhabitants.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

This constitution, in the first place, possesses that great equality without which men cannot long maintain their freedom; secondly, it offers a great stability, while the particular separate and isolated forms easily fall into their contraries; so that a king is succeeded by a despot, an aristocracy by a faction, a democracy by a mob and confusion; and all these forms are frequently sacrificed to new revolutions.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

They are in debt for the lodging, but the landlady, I hear, said to-day that she wanted to get rid of them, and Katerina Ivanovna says that she won’t stay another minute.”
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The opposite statement of the division of the Assyrian kingdom into satrapies, the yearly change of the contingents of troops, comes from Ctesias, who transferred the arrangements of the Persian kingdom, with which he was acquainted, to their predecessors, the kingdom of the Assyrians, or found this transference made in his authorities, Persian or Mede, and copied it.
— from The History of Antiquity, Vol. 2 (of 6) by Max Duncker

The mariner, escaping from shipwreck, clutches this first of his treasures, and keeps it sacred to God.
— from Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by James Freeman Clarke

Each generation will make its own mistakes and gather its handful of treasures and keep its secrets.
— from Wastralls: A Novel by C. A. (Catharine Amy) Dawson Scott

He gives an anecdote, for instance, of an elephant which, seeing an artillery-man fall from the tumbril of a gun, in such a situation that in a second or two the wheel of the gun carriage must have gone over him, instantly, without any warning from its keeper, lifted the wheel with its trunk and kept it suspended until the carriage had passed clear of the soldier.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various

The simplest thing, therefore, if we are to assume the existence of a stream of consciousness at all, would be to suppose that things that are known together are known in single pulses of that stream.
— from Psychology: Briefer Course by William James

An example of the former type at Knyttkärr in Sweden is wider at one end than at the other, and has an outer coating of stone slabs.
— from Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders by T. Eric (Thomas Eric) Peet

Another stripe found in Princess Bokharas and also in Tekkes and Khivas is shown in Plate L , Fig.
— from Oriental Rugs, Antique and Modern by W. A. (Walter Augustus) Hawley

He seemed puzzled and ill at ease, trampled restlessly about the room, toyed with the gold charms that dangled from his watch-chain, and nodded two or three times at Konrad in solemn appreciation.
— from The Song of Songs by Hermann Sudermann

In the Aesthetic Kant interprets space not merely as a form of intuition but also as a formal intuition, which is given complete {96} in its totality, and which is capable of being apprehended independently of its empirical contents, and even prior to them.
— from A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' by Norman Kemp Smith