This injustice was the more shameful, as the only price I had set on my piece when I gave it to the managers was a perpetual freedom of the house; for although this was a right, common to every author, and which I enjoyed under a double title, I expressly stipulated for it in presence of M. Duclos.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

You should never lose sight of the fact that ordinary politeness is only a grinning mask: if it shifts its place a little, or is removed for a moment, there is no use raising a hue and cry.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by Arthur Schopenhauer

1, 35, on all the other points I agree with Crassus .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

The only point in America where the Spanish arms made themselves felt was in the great region east of the Mississippi, then known as Florida, which, though at that time an English possession, did not join the revolt of the colonies.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

And you too, O Priam, I have heard that you were aforetime happy.
— from The Iliad by Homer

152. — Pherae, a town of Pelasgiotis, in Thessaly. 153. — Tlepolemus, son of Hercules and Astyochia.
— from The Iliad by Homer

He remained some time at Annecy, where he fell in love with the Intendant’s lady, who was very amiable, much to my taste and the only person I saw with pleasure at the house of Madam de Warens.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

According to the old proverb, in vino veritas, they will then be open and visible to the world in their true characters; and also they will be more amenable to the laws, and more easily moulded by the hand of the legislator.
— from Laws by Plato

[87] The wider of the two meanings of ‘Intuition’ here distinguished is required in treating of Philosophical Intuitionism.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

It differs from the prescription of conscience, in that conscience is often the spokesman of one interest or of a group of interests in opposition to other primary impulses which it would annul altogether; while reason and the ideal are not active forces nor embodiments of passion at all, but merely a method by which objects of desire are compared in reflection.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

The grounds of this Republican opposition lay partly in the terms of peace imposed on Germany and partly in the Covenant of the League of Nations.
— from History of the United States by Mary Ritter Beard

Now it is a very odd coincidence, one however which had little, if anything, to do with the curious entanglement of my friend's affairs into which I was afterwards drawn, but an odd coincidence all the same, that on passing from the dining room with Adrian to join Barbara in the drawing room, I found among the last post letters lying on the hall table one which, with a thrill of pleasure, I held up before Adrian's eyes.
— from Jaffery by William John Locke

He no longer thought of pursuit in connection with her.
— from The Second Fiddle by Phyllis Bottome

His first treatise of 1825, on the unity of the church, was followed by his “Athanasius the Great,” and the work of his life, the “Symbolics” of 1832, in its ninth edition in 1884, which with the apparatus of Protestant science combats the Protestant church doctrine and presented the Catholic doctrine in such an ennobled and sublimated form, that Rome at first seriously thought of placing it in the Index.
— from Church History, Volume 3 (of 3) by J. H. (Johann Heinrich) Kurtz

That the criticism is not perfectly fair is clear from the very inscription which he cites, where the Old Pretender is twice called James III.; from the inscription on the tomb of his wife, close at hand, where she is called "Queen of Great Britain, France and Ireland"; from the fact that the canopy under which the body of the Old Pretender lay in state at Rome for five days, crowned, sceptred, and in royal robes, was inscribed, "Jacobus, Magnæ Britanniæ Rex, Anno MDCCLXVI."; and from the fact, stated by Lanciani himself in the same volume, that when Charles Edward, the Young Pretender, died, Cardinal York, his brother, proclaimed himself the legitimate sovereign of Great Britain and Ireland, under the name of Henry IX.
— from A Year in Europe by Walter W. (Walter William) Moore

[290] word was spoken and the sound of the oars plashing in the quiet water of the harbor came down clearly upon the breeze from the land as the little craft drew nearer the shore.
— from In Search of Mademoiselle by George Gibbs

I wondered if the other prisoners, if the poor distracted woman herself in the cell below, had been offered as much consolation.
— from Prisons & Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences by Lytton, Constance, Lady