But that she may not impute to us any harshness or want of politeness, let us tell her that there is an ancient quarrel between philosophy and poetry; of which there are many proofs, such as the saying of ‘the yelping hound howling at her lord,’ or of one ‘mighty in C the vain talk of fools,’ and ‘the mob of sages circumventing Zeus,’ and the ‘subtle thinkers who are beggars after all’; and there are innumerable other signs of ancient enmity between them.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

Thus, if one estimate the gradations of popular morality and enlightenment, we shall generally find that in small nations there are more persons in easy circumstances, a more numerous population, and a more tranquil state of society, than in great empires.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

It was too early yet to go to Miss Havisham's, so I loitered into the country on Miss Havisham's side of town,—which was not Joe's side; I could go there to-morrow,—thinking about my patroness, and painting brilliant pictures of her plans for me.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

He speaks in several places of the Rickahockan, which seems to be a more correct form than Rechahecrian, and his narrative and the accompanying map put them in the mountains of North Carolina, back of the Catawba and the Sara and southward from the head of Roanoke river.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

I gave a part of those onions to all my party and we all eate of them, in this State the root is very Sweet and the tops tender.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

The second of these alternatives may perhaps be made clearer by some illustrations.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

I took my sword, my musket, and my horse-pistols out of the carriage, and I made them and my pockets pistols ready so as to offer a stiff resistance to the brigands if they came; and I then told Le Duc to take some money and ride off and see if he could bring some peasants to our assistance.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Amy hastily shook out half a dozen, and laid the rest down before Mr. Davis, feeling that any man possessing a human heart would relent when that delicious perfume met his nose.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

After this material point was so satisfactorily decided, he despatched an Indian boy in quest of “killdeer” and the rifle of Uncas, to the place where they had deposited their weapons on approaching the camp of the Delawares; a measure of double policy, inasmuch as it protected the arms from their own fate, if detained as prisoners, and gave them the advantage of appearing among the strangers rather as sufferers than as men provided with means of defense and subsistence.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

The seven whose names are in capitals had the title of Wang or "King" of particular territories, as M. Pauthier has shown from the Chinese Annals, thus confirming Marco's accuracy on that point.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

There are many places where beer is sold without a licence.
— from Nineteen Centuries of Drink in England: A History by Richard Valpy French

The picture of the "Last Supper" was painted in Milan, by order of his patron, the Duke, and there are many picturesque stories written of its production.
— from Pictures Every Child Should Know A Selection of the World's Art Masterpieces for Young People by Mary Schell Hoke Bacon

They said the sultan of Sheher would not be able to go himself or send soldiers into these parts, and that the Al Madi people wished to decoy us to Al Madi and kill us.
— from Southern Arabia by Bent, Theodore, Mrs.

NELSON ON THE COMMUNION; Containing Devotions for the Altar, Meditations, Prayers, &c. A New Edition, with Memoir by Hawkins , and a Portrait of the Author.
— from Australia, its history and present condition containing an account both of the bush and of the colonies, with their respective inhabitants by W. (William) Pridden

Don't you think it's a sin for you to abuse me, Potápych?
— from Plays by Aleksandr Nikolaevich Ostrovsky

Again, if, as I believe, we should attribute the first illustrated Italian edition of the 'Ars Moriendi,' printed in 1490, 'co li figure accomodati per Johanne clein & Piero himel de alamanis,' to Venice rather than to Lyons, we may claim the majority of the cuts in this as additional examples of intelligent, if not very original, adaptation by Venetian artists, the originals, in this case, being the designs first used in the German block-books, imitated again two years later, by Vérard at Paris.
— from Old Picture Books, With Other Essays on Bookish Subjects by Alfred W. (Alfred William) Pollard

The abolitionists made positive statements about the mulatto offspring of Thomas Jefferson.
— from The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 by Various

If the single state of Texas were as densely populated as at least one of the provinces of China, there would be living in this one state more than two hundred million people or nearly twice as many people as are now living in the whole United States.
— from Birdseye Views of Far Lands by James T. (James Thomas) Nichols

But this is “neither here nor there,” as my publisher told me when I asked him for the profits of my last book, and I shall therefore drop the subject.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete by Various