But whether reverend Rapp learn'd this in Germany Or no, 't is said his sect is rich and godly, Pious and pure, beyond what I can term any Of ours, although they propagate more broadly.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

“Father,” she said, as considerately as she could, “I think it best for us that I go on now.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

“There is nothing,” says Cicero, “so charming as the employment of letters; of letters, I say, by means whereof the infinity of things, the immense grandeur of nature, the heavens even in this world, the earth, and the seas are discovered to us; ‘tis they that have taught us religion, moderation, and the grandeur of courage, and that have rescued our souls from darkness, to make her see all things, high, low, first, last, and middling; ‘tis they that furnish us wherewith to live happily and well, and conduct us to pass over our lives without displeasure, and without offence.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

The small town, enclosed by its massive ramparts, built by Monsieur de Vauban, extended into the open sea, in the middle of the immense Gulf of Nice.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Tra li ladron trovai cinque cotali tuoi cittadini onde mi ven vergogna, e tu in grande orranza non ne sali.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

This resultant object of pursuit, conceived in reflection and in itself the initial goal of neither impulse, is the ideal of a mind occupied by the two: it is the aim prescribed by reason under the circumstances.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Misíbug na ang taúbun, The tide is going out now.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

And even if there be some one who through inherent goodness or natural reasonableness has had his eyes opened a little and is humbled and taken captive by philosophy, how will his friends behave when they think that they are likely to lose the advantage which they were hoping to reap from his companionship?
— from The Republic by Plato

It was strange there, in the very depths of the town, with ten miles of man’s handiwork on every side of us, to feel the iron grip of Nature, and to be conscious that to the huge elemental forces all London was no more than the molehills that dot the fields.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Is there no one who can really say whether the thing is genuine or not?”
— from Max Carrados by Ernest Bramah

We should long for some more marked change of seasons, for the autumn leaves and the winter winds, and the gradual coming on of spring, and all those insensible gradations of nature which make the glory of the full round year.
— from From Egypt to Japan by Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field

305 –307.—But they easily fail to discover where there is guilt or not, and, in case of carelessness, to determine the magnitude of the offender’s guilt, p.
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck

It therefore follows that he cuts down much of the infinite growth of nature, and allows to stand only the trees of the mind that he chooses—generally those that flourish in deserts and ruins and which there grow abnormally.
— from Clerambault: The Story of an Independent Spirit During the War by Romain Rolland

The proposition was to invite all the independent governments of North and South America to meet in a peace congress at Washington on March 15, 1882.
— from The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 1, October, 1884 by Various

“Royal presence, quotha!—and a small child of ten years!” cried the indignant girl of nineteen.
— from The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time by Emily Sarah Holt

Then I gave out ‘Nathan der Weise,’ then the ‘Goetz,’ then ‘Lust und Liebe,’—why do I go on?
— from Arthur O'Leary: His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands by Charles James Lever

You may think of a thing that is going on now, or of one that is to occur in the future; but, after all, you are dependent on your past experience for the material which you put into your thinking of the present moment.
— from The Mind and Its Education by George Herbert Betts