He enjoys at once the pity he feels for their woes and the joy of being exempt from them; he feels in himself that state of vigour which projects us beyond ourselves, and bids us carry elsewhere the superfluous activity of our well-being.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Women so easily stir a man’s senses and fan the ashes of a dying passion, that if philosophy ever succeeded in introducing this custom into any unlucky country, especially if it were a warm country where more women are born than men, the men, tyrannised over by the women, would at last become their victims, and would be dragged to their death without the least chance of escape.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The beak is Smoth, black, convex and cultrated; 1 1/8 inchs from the point to the opening of the Chaps and 3/4 only uncovered with feathers, the upper Chap exceeds the other a little in length.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

"The undeveloped man must undergo countless earthly and astral and causal incarnations in order to emerge from his three bodies.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

The second,—old, black, wrinkled, hideous, with an ugliness conspicuous even in the Cour des Miracles, trotted round Gringoire.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

It is a wonderful letter, which no Christian genius, much less one unsanctified, could ever have written.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

This over, they work until Christmas eve.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

—Tuve la suerte de [5] visitar un cafetal en el mes de octubre, cuando los cafetos están en pleno florecimiento.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Tiene algunas fábricas y un comercio extenso, especialmente en café.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

Up to this moment their conduct had been most exemplary; not a murmur had escaped from them, and they filled the water-casks with the utmost cheerfulness, even whilst tasting the disagreeable beverage they would most probably have to subsist on for the next three or four days.
— from Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Complete by Charles Sturt

The statement is intended to deny nothing which can reasonably be held by any specific Denomination, and it seeks to affirm nothing but what is consistent with universal Christian experience.
— from The Substance of Faith Allied with Science (6th Ed.) A Catechism for Parents and Teachers by Lodge, Oliver, Sir

135 ‘ Reges amici atque socii, et singuli in suo quisque regno, Cæsareas urbes condiderunt; et cuncti simul ædem
— from The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Volumes 1 and 2 by Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq

Indeed, the movement would be a continual retrogression, for the experience of the present shows us clearly enough 34 that the conflict of life becomes ever more difficult, toilsome, and embittered.
— from Life's Basis and Life's Ideal: The Fundamentals of a New Philosophy of Life by Rudolf Eucken

[250] to occupy my mind—that nothing less than the death of one of us could expiate our involuntary and unhappy connexion with the banned and fated craft.
— from The Death Ship: A Strange Story, Vol. 3 (of 3) by William Clark Russell

The sages give us caution enough to beware the treachery of our desires, and to distinguish true and entire pleasures from such as are mixed and complicated with greater pain.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne