It has been absolutely impossible to ascertain any local degeneration in me, nor any organic stomach trouble, however much I may have suffered from profound weakness of the gastric system as the result of general exhaustion.
— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

There were the golf-clubs and tennis-rackets, the straw hats and caps, the rows of gloves, the sheaf of walking-sticks, which you will find in ten thousand British homes.
— from The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

What was it that quieted and appeased the Roman people, when they brake out into a riot for the redress of grievances?
— from In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts by Desiderius Erasmus

It is a very easy matter for a school-man to make a plan for outflanking a wing or threatening a line of communications upon a map, where he can regulate the positions of both parties to suit himself; but when he has opposed to him a skillful, active, and enterprising adversary, whose movements are a perfect riddle, then his difficulties begin, and we see an exhibition of the incapacity of an ordinary general with none of the resources of genius.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

n. prevailing passion Gorddillyn, a. prim to excess Gorddin, n. impulse; a. rare Gorddinâad, n. an impelling Gorddinâu, Gorddino, v. to impel Gorddiniad, n. an impelling Gorddiog, a. extremely lazy Gorddiogi, v. to be very lazy Gorddirwy, n. excessive fine Gorddisgyn, n. a steep pitch Gorddisgyniad, n. pitching over Gorddiwedd, Gorddiweddu, v. to overtake Gorddiwedd, n. extreme end Gorddiwes, n. an overtaking Gorddiwesiad, n. an overtaking Gorddiwesu, v. to overtake Gorddiwyd, a. over diligent Gorddod, n. impulse: a stroke Gorddodi, v. to place over Gorddodo, n. a burrowing Gorddodyn, n. a burrower Gorddoi, a. impulsive, driving Gorddoeth, a. over sapient Gorddor, n. a hatch, wicket Gorddrud, a. over daring Gorddrws, n. a wicket; a threshold Gorddrych, n. a similitude Gorddryn, a. terrific Gorddu, a. of a blackish tinge Gordduad, n. a blacking over Gordduo, v. to black over Gorddwfn, a. profound Gorddwfr, n. a water brink Gorddwy, n. impulse; violence Gorddwyad, n. oppression Gorddwyar, n. din of violence Gorddwyo, v. to oppress Gorddwyol, a. oppressive Gorddwyn, n. mallet; a rammer Gorddwyrain, v. to over-exalt Gorddwyre, a. being extremely exalted Gorddwyreain, v. to rise over Gorddwys, a. extremely dense Gorddyar, n. roar: a. roaring Gorddyarad, n. a roaring Gorddyaru, v. to make a roar Gorddyeithr, a. over strange Gorddyfnad, n. an habituating Gorddyfnaid, v. to habituate Gorddyfnder, profundity, depth Gorddyfniad, n. what habituates Gorddyfnu, v. to accustom, to habituate Gorddyfod, v. to come upon Gorddyfodi, v. to supervene Gorddyfodiad, n. supervention; a coming upon Gorddyfn, n. habit, custom Gorddygai, n. what draws away; an abductor Gorddygan, n. harmony Gorddygiad, n. abduction Gorddygnu, v. to overtoil Gorddygyd, v. to superinduce Gorddylif, n. an overflow Gorddylifiad, n. defluxion Gorddylifo, v. to over flow Gorddyn, n. a boundary Gorddynead, n. an effusion Gorddyneu, v. to effuse Gorddyrchafu, v. to over-raise Gorddysgwyl, to expect earnestly Gorddywal, a. extremely fierce Goreb, n. a response Gorebiad, n. a responding Gorebu, v. to respond Gored, n. a fishing-wear Goredu, v. to set a wear Gorefras, a. very plump Goregni, n. over exertion Goreiliad, n. a superstructing Goreilid, n. a grievance Goreilidiad, n. a grieving Goreilidio, v. to aggrieve Goreilio, v. to superstruct Goreirian, a. extremely fair Goreiriol, a. adverbial Goreiste, n. a sitting aloft Goreisteddiad, n. a presiding Gorel, n. an aperture Gorelu, v. to make an aperture Gorelwain, v. to keep crying Gorentrych, a. supercelestial Gorenw, n. a surname Gorenwi, v. to surname Gorergyd, n. an over-shot Gorerlid, v. to pursue eagerly Gorerlyn, v. to follow eagerly Gores, n. waste: a. open Goresgyn, n. a coming upon possession; conquest; a lease Goresgyniad, n. an overcoming; a conquering Goresgyniaeth, n. subjugation Goresgynol, a. overcoming Goresgynu, v. to overcome Goresgynwr, Goresgynydd, n. an occupant; a vanquisher; a descendant in the fifth degree Goresiad, n. a laying open Gorest, n. a waste; a. open waste Gorestwng, v. to yield homage Gorestyngiad, n. liege subject Gorestyn, n. over-extension Goresymu, v. to talk familiar Goretholi, v. to select nicely Goreu, a. best.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

The relation of good men to their governments is so peculiar, that in order to defend them I must take an illustration from the world of fiction.
— from The Republic by Plato

As soon as time and accident had removed those faithful counsellors from the throne, the emperor of the West insensibly descended to the level of his natural genius; abandoned the reins of government to the ambitious hands which were stretched forwards to grasp them; and amused his leisure with the most frivolous gratifications.
— 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

837-839.) —— The River of Golden Sand, the Narrative of a Journey through China and Eastern Tibet to Burmah, With Illustrations and ten Maps from Original Surveys.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

To take an extreme case, suppose a book contains simply incidents which lie quite outside the range of general or even rare experience—suppose it to be the first language to express a whole series of experiences.
— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The substitution of paper in the room of gold and silver money, replaces a very expensive instrument of commerce with one much less costly, and sometimes equally convenient.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

I then piled all the carriages together in the centre of the camp, which, to prevent the noise of the wheels being heard, I carried in pairs under my arms; and a noble appearance they made, as high at least as the rock of Gibraltar.
— from The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen by Rudolf Erich Raspe

The bottom of the Lachoong valley at Momay is broad, tolerably level, grassy, and covered with isolated mounds and ridges that point down the valley, and are the remains of glacial deposits.
— from Himalayan Journals — Complete Or, Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, etc. by Joseph Dalton Hooker

Too proud to be a courtier, and too sensible of the responsibility of great lineage and high station to be a rebel, his aim was to steer a moderate course.
— from Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02 by Craik, Henry, Sir

The most striking feature in the history of London in the reign of George I., was the extraordinary spirit of speculation which then existed.
— from London in Modern Times or, Sketches of the English Metropolis during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. by Unknown

Men upon whom we lavish our veneration reduce it to an absurdity at the end by dying of chronic cystitis, or by choking upon marshmallows or dill pickles, or as the result of getting cut by dirty barbers.
— from Prejudices, Second Series by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

To resume, the Biscayan dialect [ 228 ] is now spoken in Alava, Biscay, and the western third part of Guipuzcoa, in Vergara, and in Las Salinas; the Guipuzcoan in almost all the rest of Guipuzcoa; the Northern Upper-Navarrese in some villages of Guipuzcoa on the French frontier, in Fontarabie, Irun, and in the northern part of Navarre; the Southern Upper-Navarrese in the rest of Basque Navarre; the Labourdine in the south-western part of the arrondissement of Bayonne; the Western Lower-Navarrese in the north-eastern part of the same arrondissement; the Souletine is spoken in the two cantons of Mauléon and Tardets, and at Esquiule in the arrondissement of Oloron; the Eastern Lower-Navarrese extends into the arrondissement of Bayonne as far as St. Pierre d’Irube, by Meharrin, Ayherre, Briscous, Urcuit.
— from Basque Legends; With an Essay on the Basque Language by Wentworth Webster

But finally I can also deny the inference in the argument, which states that if the will is only actuated by the representation of good and evil our happiness does not depend upon ourselves.
— from Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von

Considering the classical reputation which the book has thus obtained, and its very high interest as illustrative of the manners, customs, and amusements of English life during the half century following the Restoration, no apology is needed for placing such a work more within the reach of general readers and students by re-issuing it for the first time since its original appearance, and at about a tithe of the price for which the old edition could now be obtained.
— from Hogarth's Works, with life and anecdotal descriptions of his pictures. Volume 2 (of 3) by John Ireland

Would you escape from every ill? Never lose this recollection of God, neither in prosperity nor in adversity, nor on any occasion whichsoever it be.
— from The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James

The rattle of glasses, the chink of spoons, the hum of voices, the stamping of feet, the calls and orders, and sounds of laughter, mingle in confusion.
— from Hodge and His Masters by Richard Jefferies