The evening came, and nobody appeared to bring the poor bird a drop of water; it opened its beautiful wings, and fluttered about in its anguish; a faint and mournful "Tweet, tweet," was all it could utter, then it bent its little head towards the flower, and its heart broke for want and longing.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

The entire cession aggregated nearly six thousand square miles, or more than one-fourth of all then held by the nation.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

He lined his forces in appropriate disposition around the enemy camp at night and had them—himself setting the example—break the pitchers all at the same time, while blowing like mad on the trumpets.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

In spite of theory, we know as a matter of fact that external circumstances are necessary to complete the idea of Happiness not that Happiness is capable of addition, but that when we assert it to be identical with virtuous action we must understand that it is to have a fair field; in fact, the other side of [Greek: bios teleios].
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

] Note 63 ( return ) [ Between the exorbitant claims, and narrow concessions, of interest and prejudice, from which even Muratori (Antiquitat.
— 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

Seldom except in books do the dying utter memorable words, see visions, or depart with beatified countenances, and those who have sped many parting souls know that to most the end comes as naturally and simply as sleep.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

As all things whereof man is the efficient cause are necessarily good, no evil can befall man except through external causes; namely, by virtue of man being a part of universal nature, whose laws human nature is compelled to obey, and to conform to in almost infinite ways.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

A collection of manuscripts published in the eighteenth century, and named for Robert Harley, the English statesman who collected them.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The principle of continuity forbids any leap in the series of phenomena regarded as changes (in mundo non datur saltus); and likewise, in the complex of all empirical intuitions in space, any break or hiatus between two phenomena (non datur hiatus)—for we can so express the principle, that experience can admit nothing which proves the existence of a vacuum, or which even admits it as a part of an empirical synthesis.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

The study of controversy inspired doubts he had never felt before, and he made acquaintance with evil hitherto unsuspected by him; he heard strange doctrines and he met with morals still stranger to him; he beheld this evil conduct and nearly fell a victim to it.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Again, he says: "The worshiping establishments now in operation throughout Christendom, increased and cemented by their respective voluminous confessions of faith, and their ecclesiastical constitutions, are not churches of Jesus Christ, but the legitimate daughters of that mother of harlots, the church of Rome."
— from The Revelation Explained An Exposition, Text by Text, of the Apocalypse of St. John by F. G. (Frederick George) Smith

The joys of the epicure, clearly, are not for you.
— from The Feasts of Autolycus: The Diary of a Greedy Woman by Elizabeth Robins Pennell

But as workers become more and more skillful, and increase at the same time their productiveness and their earning capacity above normal, there is a tendency on the part of the employer to reduce the rate per unit to bring the aggregate wage back to normal.
— from Cyclopedia of Commerce, Accountancy, Business Administration, v. 02 (of 10) by American School of Correspondence

On emergencies, such as famine, pestilence, or danger, they make offerings to the “Ning Deota,” God of the Elements, called also “Ningschees;” sacrificing buffaloes, hogs, and cocks.
— from A Sketch of Assam: With some account of the Hill Tribes by Butler, John, Major

Map of the Baltic and its Approaches Battle of Copenhagen, Plan Number 1 Battle of Copenhagen, Plan Number 2 Map of the English Channel and North Sea Map of Sardinia Map of the North Atlantic Plans of Attack, issued May, 1805, Figures 1, 2, and 3.
— from The Life of Nelson, Volume 2 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

In the days when the Roman Empire was beginning to decay, and new nations from the north began to pour into her lands, the emperor, Constantine the Great, the ruler who made Christianity the religion of the empire, chose a new capital instead of Rome.
— from Stories That Words Tell Us by Elizabeth (Elizabeth Speakman) O'Neill

With this expedition came a number of Franciscan missionaries who, as soon as a town was gained over, established a mission for the conversion of the natives.
— from The Making of the Great West, 1512-1883 by Samuel Adams Drake

In spite of these edicts, children are now taken away, as Gilli informs us, under pretence of their being illegitimate.
— from Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete by William Hogan

The Indians were eager to hear the expected communication, and no excuse would avail.
— from Silverspur; or, The Mountain Heroine: A Tale of the Arapaho Country by Edward Willett