Hence we conclude that our laws are not only the best, but that they are also possible, though not free from difficulty.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

If you care to take the trouble, cut a hole in a piece of opaque paper the size of the head and placing it over the illustration look at the face without the influence of these outside lines; and note how much more equally divided the attention is between the two eyes without the emphasis given to the one by the mirror.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

Atalanta is not the first or the last maiden whom greed of gold has led to defile the temple of Love; and not maids alone, but men in the race of life, sink from the high and generous ideals of youth to the gambler's code of the Bourse; and in all our Nation's striving is not the Gospel of Work befouled by the Gospel of Pay?
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

the other larger and nearly opposit its lower point, and opposit a high clift of Black rocks on the Lard.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

If thrown on its back, it lies there quietly, without turning over like a normal frog.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

That used by the Achæans was made of three thongs of leather, and not of one only, like those of other nations.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a schoolboy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

Judges and other officers shall be aptly disposed in each province, villages, cities, as common arbitrators to hear causes, and end all controversies, and those not single, but three at least on the bench at once, to determine or give sentence, and those again to sit by turns or lots, and not to continue still in the same office.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

To them it is clear only that eleutheromaniac Philosophism has yet baked no bread; that Patrioti Committee-men will level down to their own level, and no lower.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

The Indians have cultivated farms, and valuable tracts of land, and no doubt it will improve the condition of the whites, to get possession of those farms and rich lands, for one tenth of their saleable value .
— from A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America by S. A. (Simon Ansley) Ferrall

But is it thus one loves at nineteen when, knowing nothing of the world, desiring everything, one feels, within, the germ of all the passions?
— from The Confession of a Child of the Century — Volume 1 by Alfred de Musset

Besides these he wrote two treatises Of Liberty and Necessity , 1646 and 1654, and prepared, 1668, a collected edition of his works (in Latin).
— from History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg

Since we learned that no Germans had remained in the town of Lyck, and no sniping could have been possible, this orgy of broken shop windows, blown up safes, and robbery, before our eyes, was the indisputable evidence of Russian barbarism.
— from Behind the Scenes in Warring Germany by Edward Lyell Fox

I am truly sorry, truly sorry; but those who work for their own living are not the most unhappy people, and you are well-educated; your poor father saw to that.
— from The Girl and Her Fortune by L. T. Meade

“The hours of the obligatory labors are nearly past for the day.
— from Through the Eye of the Needle: A Romance by William Dean Howells

The greatest import to Naples consists in European manufactured goods, and salt fish; its exports are those of Leghorn, with capers, wool, dye stuffs, manna, wax, sulphur, potash, macaroni, &c. Venice has declined very much, from the influence of political circumstances: her exports are olives, looking-glasses, rice, coral, Venice treacle, scarlet cloth, and gold and silver stuffs; the imports are similar to those of Leghorn and Naples.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson by William Stevenson

Then ordinary lines and nets are more or less in requisition for capturing fish.
— from A History of Science — Volume 5 by Edward Huntington Williams

When thoroughly tired out, late at night, he would retire to his room and take a frugal supper (Mackworth was no glutton), and sit before the fire musing.
— from Ravenshoe by Henry Kingsley

Dr. Macias has satisfactorily proved that this city once stood in the province of Orense, near what are now the little towns of Lodoselo and Nocela de Pena, two miles to the south-east of Ginzo de Limia; he has proved this from inscriptions discovered in that neighbourhood in the middle of the eighteenth century, which are dedications, the one to Hadrian and the other to Antoninus Pius, by the city of the Limicos ( Civitas Limicorum ).
— from Galicia, the Switzerland of Spain by Annette M. B. Meakin