To Jane, he could be only a man whose proposals she had refused, and whose merit she had undervalued; but to her own more extensive information, he was the person, to whom the whole family were indebted for the first of benefits, and whom she regarded herself with an interest, if not quite so tender, at least as reasonable and just, as what Jane felt for Bingley.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

I began to realise the hardihood of my expedition among these unknown people.
— from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

By this [process] is gained the knowledge that the history of moral estimates is the history of error, of the error of responsibility: as is whatever rests upon the error of the freedom of the will.
— from Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

It is self-evident that under these circumstances no other advice can be given as to how one may enter into the thought explained in this work than to read the book twice , and the first time with great patience, a patience which is only to be derived from the belief, voluntarily accorded, that the beginning presupposes the end almost as much as the end presupposes the beginning, and that all the earlier parts presuppose the later almost as much as the later presuppose the earlier.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

The first moral precept in the teachings of Christ, which we will bring to notice, is one of a numerous class, which may very properly be arranged under the head of Moral Extremism.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

Its capital was Cynopolis; which is to be distinguished from the Deltic city and other places of that name, as this was a nome of the Heptanomis or Middle Egypt, to which also the Hammonian nome belonged.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

Besides, I am unwilling to part with my ship; for on that ship and its apparel I have bestowed so much labour, that it would go much against my inclination to put her into the hands of my enemies."
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

With this added incentive I nearly drove Sola distracted by my importunities to hasten on my education and within a few more days I had mastered the Martian tongue sufficiently well to enable me to carry on a passable conversation and to fully understand practically all that I heard.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

A process something similar, attended with similar results, has more than once occurred in the history of missionary enterprise.
— from Cities of the Dawn Naples - Athens - Pompeii - Constantinople - Smyrna - Jaffa - Jerusalem - Alexandria - Cairo - Marseilles - Avignon - Lyons - Dijon by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

In the hospital of Mergentheim eight necropsies were held on corpses of soldiers who had returned mentally affected in consequence of exposure to extreme cold.
— from Napoleon's Campaign in Russia, Anno 1812; Medico-Historical by Achilles Rose

Now that I have reappeared in Paris in my own name— entered into a career that, for good or for evil, must ere long bring my name very noisily before the public—Louise cannot fail to hear of my existence and my whereabouts; and unless I am utterly mistaken as to her character, she will assuredly inform me of her own.
— from The Parisians — Volume 11 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Betrayed into the hands of my enemy, I stood helpless and dismayed.
— from Zoraida: A Romance of the Harem and the Great Sahara by William Le Queux

2. The History of Mekka, entitled Akd e themyn, in three folio volumes, by Taky ed' dyn el Fasy, who was himself Kadhy of Mekka.
— from Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred by John Lewis Burckhardt

In the prosecution of this attempt he has displayed an extent of learning, a variety of research, a power of combination, which are worthy of the very highest praise, and have secured for him a lasting place among the historians of modern Europe."
— from Mosaics of Grecian History by Robert Pierpont Wilson

He wishes much to have one more encounter with the fellow; he says that on fair ground, and in fine weather, he has no doubt that he could master him, and hand him over to the quarter sessions.
— from Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest by George Borrow

THE TOWN TRADER With the appearance of the new commercial society in the boroughs we feel that the history of modern England has begun.
— from Town Life in the Fifteenth Century, Volume 2 (of 2) by Alice Stopford Green

Now I knew, and I had long known, that that hand of M. Emanuel's was on the most intimate terms with my desk; that it raised and lowered the lid, ransacked and arranged the contents, almost as familiarly as my own.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

The next day I was able to return to Gmünden, where I learnt from the Unknown the history of my escape, which seemed almost miraculous to me.
— from Consolations in Travel; or, the Last Days of a Philosopher by Davy, Humphry, Sir