The lost parts may very probably contain the secret of its period and authorship.
— from On the Sublime by active 1st century Longinus

The strength of this tyrannical power within the State, and the force of the superstition, may be measured by the fact that people who are prevented from restoring their knightly honor by the superior or inferior rank of their aggressor, or anything else that puts the persons on a different level, often come to a tragic-comic end by committing suicide in sheer despair.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer

Sensitive children are often seriously injured by the suggestion of inferiority and the exaggeration of defects which might have been entirely overcome.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Gamle's men retreated towards this ground; but Hakon followed so closely that he killed some, and others ran west over the ridge, and were killed on that side of it.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

On one occasion they had met and Margaret with clasped hands had implored them to argue the subject out in her presence.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

We shall understand the section only by realising that the legislator is, in fact, in Rousseau's system, the spirit of institutions personified; his place, in a developed society, is taken by the whole complex of social custom, organisation and tradition that has grown up with the State.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

But these peculiarities are in comparison to the general characteristics of a combat mostly only insignificant, so that most combats are very like one another, and, therefore, in order to avoid repeating that which is general at every stage, we are compelled to look into it here, before taking up the subject of its more special application.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

Do ye therefore make them; I will implant in them the seed of immortality, and you shall weave together the mortal and immortal, and provide food for them, and receive them again in death.'
— from Timaeus by Plato

These were years in which an experiment was made with assisted passages, and the result was that the supply of immigrants jumped up and soon exceeded the demand.
— from The Amazing Argentine: A New Land of Enterprise by John Foster Fraser

It is difficult for the stranger to get accustomed to seeing droves of llamas, with drivers dressed in the style of Inca days, soft-footing across the main plaza or patiently awaiting their masters, with the modern congress building as a background.
— from Vagabonding down the Andes Being the Narrative of a Journey, Chiefly Afoot, from Panama to Buenos Aires by Harry Alverson Franck

A year ago I should have said ‘No’ before I had got to the signature of it.
— from A Prince of Good Fellows by Robert Barr

While that is a pity, out of the efforts of many who keenly engage to help, it is also seriously reprehensible; for, he who affects the role of protagonist concerning the most complex problem given man to solve, owes it to society to know intimately the order of the criminal’s going; else he will find himself hopelessly enmeshed in a labyrinth of motive and counter motive.
— from Criminal Types by V. M. (Vincent Myron) Masten

Evelyn further descants upon the excellency of holly for hedges; and as the following remarks are so truly practical, we quote them in this place: — The holly is an excellent plant for hedges, and would claim the preference to the hawthorn, were it not for the slowness of its growth while young, and the difficulty of transplanting it when grown to a moderate size.
— from Science and Practice in Farm Cultivation by James Buckman

Portray Castle was really a castle,—not simply a country mansion so called, but a stone edifice with battlements and a round tower at one corner, and a gate which looked as if it might have had a portcullis, and narrow windows in a portion of it, and a cannon mounted upon a low roof, and an excavation called the moat,—but which was now a fantastic and somewhat picturesque garden,—running round two sides of it.
— from The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope

And the lulling melody that had been softer than the wind-harp of Aeolus, and more divine than all save the voice of Eleonora, it died little by little away, in murmurs growing lower and lower, until the stream returned, at length, utterly, into the solemnity of its original silence.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Professor Dahn is a native of Hamburg, but spent his childhood in Munich, always a centre of intellectual life, and, under the stimulus of its circle of writers, his poetic talent developed early.
— from A Captive of the Roman Eagles by Felix Dahn

In order, however, to get some definite data as a guide, the wing was inverted and guyed in the same way that it was proposed to guy it on the aerodrome, and a uniform thickness of sand was then sprinkled over it to such a depth as to give it a load of 0.7 pounds per square foot.
— from Langley Memoir on Mechanical Flight, Parts I and II Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, Volume 27 Number 3, Publication 1948, 1911 by Charles M. (Charles Matthews) Manly