The mores, as thus conceived, are the judgments of public opinion in regard to issues that have been settled and forgotten.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

They were encountered, on the sacred threshold, by the archbishop, who, thundering against them a sentence of excommunication, asked them, in the tone of a father and a master, whether it was to invade the house of God, that they had implored the hospitable protection of the republic.
— 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

The important thing, however, is not the identities but the distinctions.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

And the winter ended, and with it ended the seventeenth year of the present war of which Thucydides is the historian.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

For a year or two Eliza saw her husband frequently, and there was nothing to interrupt their happiness, except the loss of two infant children, to whom she was passionately attached, and whom she mourned with a grief so intense as to call for gentle remonstrance from her mistress, who sought, with maternal anxiety, to direct her naturally passionate feelings within the bounds of reason and religion.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

“It is the first time I ever saw her in this condition,” said Valentine; “and this morning she frightened me so that I thought her mad; and my father, who you know is a strong-minded man, himself appeared deeply impressed.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

I am afraid (but you, sir, will know better than I) that he is not quite in his sound senses; but so mild and quiet he seems to be, that a mother might trust her baby with him; and I think he would play with the baby as if he were only a few years older than itself.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

They would be tendencies in the hemispheres themselves, modifiable by education, unlike the reflexes of the medulla oblongata, pons, optic lobes and spinal cord.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Her head was whirling, and she dared not stop there even to think over this extraordinary adventure, for Moppet was doubtless waiting breathlessly for her return; and at the recollection Betty's nerves grew steadier, and she bethought herself that a glass of milk would be needed by the child and that she must take it to her.
— from An Unwilling Maid Being the History of Certain Episodes during the American Revolution in the Early Life of Mistress Betty Yorke, born Wolcott by Jeanie Gould Lincoln

Certainly the Präsidentin, in spite of her aristocratic prejudices, was perfectly well-bred, and never failed in the politeness and consideration which she owed towards the guests she had herself invited, but she, nevertheless, managed to make her granddaughter and Herr von Reinert feel that they were only tolerated, and that they owed only this toleration itself to Hermann's influence.
— from Hermann: A Novel by E. Werner

the idea that had gleamed upon her had vanished already.
— from A Strange Story — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Fortunately, [94] it is a question which there is no occasion to decide, as every lover of art may be the happy possessor of all three, in that highest mode of possession attained by devoted study.
— from The Madonna in Art by Estelle M. (Estelle May) Hurll

According to the interpretation that has just been advocated, the thousand years are merely a symbol for the time of the present Christian dispensation, and the rule which the saints are represented as bearing with Christ probably refers to the condition of the blessed dead up to the final resurrection.
— from The Literature and History of New Testament Times by J. Gresham (John Gresham) Machen

Now she sent her eldest son, Pietro, to his father, with the idea that he should begin his studies at the ancient seat of learning.
— from Heroes of Modern Europe by Alice Birkhead

The idea that he might by any chance be identified with him held the poor youth in silent subjection.
— from The Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Complete by George Meredith

Goetze, in the introduction to his German translation of Russian popular ballads, observes: "In the Russian love songs we meet with more softness of feeling than romantic delicacy."
— from Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations With a Sketch of Their Popular Poetry by Talvj

[59] When his faculties were fading fast, he would sit long at the western window, watching the glories of the sunset; and one day when his wife drew his attention to a beautiful rainbow that then spanned the sky, he looked beyond the falling shower and the many-coloured arch, and observed, "He hath set his testimony in the heavens.
— from Michael Faraday Third Edition, with Portrait by J. H. (John Hall) Gladstone

I, too, should consider it a crime against the free American people, if we manufacturers were to desert them in this hour of national danger.
— from Banzai! by Parabellum by Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff