'But I said, you know,' urged Mr Boffin, rather at a loss for an answer, 'the bee.' 'Exactly.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

So it is that, one thing with another, I fancy men as often commend as undervalue me beyond reason; as, methinks also, from my childhood, in rank and degree of honour, they have given me a place rather above than below my right.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Here he remained five Months, till Thomas Tarlton , Brother to his Captain chanced to put in the Road for Trade, to whom he represented his Hardships and starving Condition; but was, in an unchristian Manner, both refused a Release of this Captivity, or so much as a small Supply of Biscuit and salt Meat, because, as he said, he had been among the Pyrates.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

expression.—Natural history of inspiration.—Expressions to be understood must be recreated, and so changed.—Expressions may be recast perversely, humourously, or sublimely.—The nature of prose.—It is more advanced and responsible than poetry.—Maturity brings love of practical truth.—Pure prose would tend to efface itself.—Form alone, or substance alone, may be poetical.—Poetry has its place in the medium.—It is the best medium possible.—Might it not convey what it is best to know?—A rational poetry would exclude much now thought poetical.—All apperception modifies its object.—Reason has its own bias and method.—Rational poetry would envelop exact knowledge in ultimate emotions.—An illustration.—Volume can be found in scope better than in suggestion Pages 87 - 115
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Pages 44 - 67 CHAPTER V SPEECH AND SIGNIFICATION Sounds well fitted to be symbols.—Language has a structure independent of things.—Words, remaining identical, serve to identify things that change.—Language the dialectical garment of facts.—Words are wise men's counters.—Nominalism right in psychology and realism in logic.—Literature moves between the extremes of music and denotation.—Sound and object, in their sensuous presence, may have affinity.—Syntax positively representative.—Yet it vitiates what it represents.—Difficulty in subduing a living medium.—Language foreshortens experience.—It is a perpetual mythology.—It may be apt or inapt, with equal richness.—Absolute language a possible but foolish art Pages 68 - 86 CHAPTER VI POETRY AND PROSE Force of primary expressions.—Its exclusiveness and narrowness.—Rudimentary poetry an incantation or charm.—Inspiration irresponsible.—Plato's discriminating view.—Explosive and pregnant expression.—Natural history of inspiration.—Expressions to be understood must be recreated, and so changed.—Expressions may be recast perversely, humourously, or sublimely.—The nature of prose.—It is more advanced and responsible than poetry.—Maturity brings love of practical truth.—Pure prose would tend to efface itself.—Form alone, or substance alone, may be poetical.—Poetry has its place in the medium.—It is the best medium possible.—Might it not convey what it is best to know?—A rational poetry would exclude much now thought poetical.—All apperception modifies its object.—Reason has its own bias and method.—Rational poetry would envelop exact knowledge in ultimate emotions.—An illustration.—Volume can be found in scope better than in suggestion Pages 87 - 115
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Expressions to be understood must be recreated, and so changed.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

But we can reduce all acts of the understanding to judgements, so that understanding may be represented as the faculty of judging.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

The idea is merely to be adopted as a point of view, from which this unity, so essential to reason and so beneficial to the understanding, may be regarded as radiating.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Union men became rampant, aggressive, and, if you will, intolerant.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

I, pages 109, 309-311, 335-338, that since Christ is the Logos, the immanent God, God revealed in nature, in humanity, and in redemption, the universe must be recognized as created, upheld and governed by the same Being who in the course of history was manifest in human form and who made atonement for human sin by his death on Calvary.
— from Systematic Theology (Volume 2 of 3) by Augustus Hopkins Strong

Deputy Prime Minister SULTAN bin Zayid Al Nuhayyan (since 20 November 1990) cabinet: Council of Ministers appointed by the president note: there is also a Federal Supreme Council (FSC) which is composed of the seven emirate rulers; the council is the highest constitutional authority in the UAE; establishes general policies and sanctions federal legislation, Abu Zaby (Abu Dhabi) and Dubayy (Dubai) rulers have effective veto power; meets four times a year elections: president and vice president elected by the FSC (a group of seven electors) for five-year terms; election last held NA October 1996 (next to be held NA October 2001); prime minister and deputy prime minister appointed by the president election results: ZAYID bin Sultan Al Nuhayyan reelected president; percent of FSC vote - NA, but believed to be unanimous; MAKTUM bin Rashid al-Maktum elected vice president; percent of FSC vote - NA%, but believed to be unanimous Legislative branch: unicameral Federal National Council or Majlis al-Ittihad al-Watani (40 seats; members appointed by the rulers of the constituent states to serve two-year terms) elections: none note: reviews legislation, but cannot change or veto Judicial branch:
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

All the proper names, no matter how unpronounceable, must be rigidly adhered to; you must never transpose versts into kilometres, or roubles into francs;—I don't know what a verst is or what a rouble is, but when I see the words I am in Russia.
— from Confessions of a Young Man by George Moore

The unit may be raised above the surface or, even more easily, depressed or incised into the surface.
— from Industrial Arts Design A Textbook of Practical Methods for Students, Teachers, and Craftsmen by William H. (William Harrison) Varnum

The “Hartebeest-house” is a hut of rude construction, the usual materials being reeds and grass with a plastering of mud.
— from The Vee-Boers: A Tale of Adventure in Southern Africa by Mayne Reid

Strive as I might, I could not cast the load that weighed upon my bosom; reason as I would, I could not account for its heaviness.
— from The War Trail: The Hunt of the Wild Horse by Mayne Reid

"Truly to represent or realize in thought any one of the propositions of which the argument consists, the unconditioned must be represented as positive , and not negative.
— from Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker

And that ultimately Man, being redeemed and led by Christ and saved from death by him, would be reconciled with God the Father.*
— from God, the Invisible King by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Each rider should be provided with either a saddle slicker or a poncho, which when not in use may be rolled and secured to the saddle directly behind the seat by means of tie strings attached to the saddle.
— from Packing and Portaging by Dillon Wallace

“I intended to wash my hose, write letters, review my geometry, get up my book report——” All three had a list.
— from Mimi at Sheridan School by Anne Pence Davis