The Master said, 'If you were, after a year, to eat good rice, and wear embroidered clothes, would you feel at ease?'
— from The Analects of Confucius (from the Chinese Classics) by Confucius

“Come, then,” said the elderly gentleman, ringing and gaining admission, “I know you have a key to unlock hearts.”
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

I do not propose to enter into every detail, but only to explain general rules and to give illustrations in cases of difficulty.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It may be objected to this theory, that the eye generally receives an equal number of rays at all times, and that therefore a great object cannot affect it by the number of rays, more than that variety of objects which the eye must always discern whilst it remains open.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Even La Farge felt the early glass rather as a document than as a historical emotion, and in hundreds of windows at Chartres and Bourges and Paris, Adams knew barely one or two that were meant to hold their own against a color-scheme so strong as his.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

The words of this law are to be found in the Eighth General Regulation, as follows: "No set or number of Brethren shall withdraw or separate themselves from the lodge in which they were made Brethren, or were afterwards admitted members, unless the lodge becomes too numerous; nor even then, without a dispensation from the Grand Master or his Deputy; and when they are thus separated, they must either immediately join themselves to such other lodge as they shall like best, with the unanimous consent of that other lodge to which they go, or else they must obtain the Grand Master's warrant to join in forming a new lodge."
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

The following day, however, their evil genius returned, and they called themselves a thousand fools for having been diverted from their purpose.
— from Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day

The early Greeks regarded Aïdes in the light of their greatest foe, and Homer tells us that he was "of all the gods the most detested," being in their eyes the grim robber who stole from them their nearest and dearest, and eventually deprived each of them of their share in terrestr
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

(Berg stood up and showed how he presented himself, with his hand to his cap, and really it would have been difficult for a face to express greater respect and self-complacency than his did.)
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Ernestina, Valeria, and the rest of the eldest girls, received, about this time, a present of a set of nine-pins, of a different sort from those we have been speaking of.
— from Healthful Sports for Young Ladies by Mademoiselle St. Sernin

By the elimination of all the unnecessary risk in investments in corporation securities through effective governmental regulation and supervision the people may gain control and reap the large profits of capitalized industry.
— from The Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society, Vol. IV March, 1903-December, 1903 by Oregon Historical Society

To formulate any definite answers to such questions was rendered still more difficult in Luther’s case by the fact that prudence compelled him to exercise great reticence and caution in his utterances on many such points.
— from Luther, vol. 2 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

Round the edge grew rushes and water plants, which cast a border of shadow.
— from The Brownies and Other Tales by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing

The adult ovaries differ in a corresponding manner to the embryonic genital ridges as to the presence of a core of stroma.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 2 (of 4) A Treatise on Comparative Embryology: Invertebrata by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

I suppose, however, that the eye guesses rudely at the deviations of the ecliptic, and that we must take N.W. and S.E. for the two cardinal points of Homer.
— from Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 3 of 3 I. Agorè: Polities of the Homeric Age. II. Ilios: Trojans and Greeks Compared. III. Thalassa: The Outer Geography. IV. Aoidos: Some Points of the Poetry of Homer. by W. E. (William Ewart) Gladstone

In view of the gross breach of the articles of capitulation by the French, the English government refused also to be bound by it, and the French prisoners in their hands were accordingly retained.
— from With Wolfe in Canada: The Winning of a Continent by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

He said that mankind was so wicked, and that God would punish them for it, and that when they died, the wicked went down into hell, where they would burn for ever; and he said that their worm would never die, and their fire never be extinguished, nor would they ever get rest and peace!
— from Pictures of Sweden by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Now, of the eight great railroad and canal routes connecting the sea coast with this valley, six run through the Free States; transportation on these avenues costs but one tenth the old methods.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various