In my second opera, The May Night I used natural horns and trumpets, changing the keys, and writing the best notes "stopped"; this was purposely done for practise.
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

With equal rapture the good rider surveys the proudest boasts of the architect, and those fair buildings with which some unknown name hath adorned the rich cloathing town; where heaps of bricks are piled up as a kind of monument to show that heaps of money have been piled there before.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

He then studied theology for a year at Halle, under Tholuck, and then under Neander, Hengstenberg, and Twesten, for four years at Berlin.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

they are required, we know, in both states, because the unfortunate need help and the prosperous want people to live with and to do kindnesses to: for they have a desire to act kindly to some one.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

"According to all that thou desiredst in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let us not hear again the voice of the Lord, neither let us see this fire any more, that we die not.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

But to us Nature has assigned the rôles of steadfastness, temperance, self-control, and considerateness of others; Nature also teaches us not to be careless in our behaviour towards our fellow-men.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

These eager business aims—books, politics, art, amours, To utter nothingness? H2 anchor Thought Of Equality—as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself—as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

[5803] as he said in the comedy, Et isti quod fortunatum esse autumant, uxorem nunquam habui , and that which all my neighbours admire and applaud me for, account so great a happiness, I never had a wife; consider how contentedly, quietly, neatly, plentifully, sweetly, and how merrily he lives!
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

This encourag’d me to call to our Men to run and seize the Guns, and I immediately hasten’d towards ’em with 8 or 10 of our Men till within Pistol-shot of the Guns, when we all fir’d, some at the Gunner, and others at the Men in Arms in the front of the Church, where they appear’d very numerous; but by the time we had loaded, and more of our Men came in sight, the Enemy began to run, and quitted the Guns, after they had fired them with round and Partridge Shot, one of the last was discharg’d at us very near, but Thanks to God did us no Hurt, and they had not Time to relade them.
— from A Cruising Voyage Around the World by Woodes Rogers

This coincidence made Allen wonder if the sending of the cross and the use of the rarely used name had anything to do with the murder.
— from The Wooden Hand: A Detective Story by Fergus Hume

There is an anecdote told of him (resting upon no higher authority than that of Voltaire) which, although evidently untrue, tells in a mythical way the reception which Cortes met at the Spanish Court; and his feelings as regards that reception.
— from South American Fights and Fighters, and Other Tales of Adventure by Cyrus Townsend Brady

11 and 18 are in the Unitarian New Hymn and Tune Book , 1914; and nos.
— from American Unitarian Hymn Writers and Hymns by Henry Wilder Foote

4, 6, 7 and 8 are in the Unitarian New Hymn and Tune Book , 1914, and In Hymns of the Spirit , 1937.
— from American Unitarian Hymn Writers and Hymns by Henry Wilder Foote

I do not speak of the infamous articles in the Times, Herald, etc., or of the Gregories and such scums as the Roebucks; but I am satisfied that Lord John Russell wishes us no harm, and that it is our own policy which confuses and makes suspicious such men as Russell, Gladstone, and others of the better stamp.
— from Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 by De Gurowski, Adam G., count

"Well, what did he say to all that?" "He didn't say anything; I gave him no chance; I just ran up near him and told him as quick as ever I could that he had better go off somewhere, and then—and then—well, I just ran away again.
— from The Black Wolf's Breed A Story of France in the Old World and the New, happening in the Reign of Louis XIV by Harris Dickson

She was on her honeymoon in Paris at a party at the Russian Embassy, and until now had accepted things and not speculated about them.
— from The Price of Things by Elinor Glyn

1893-6 yet from the cataloguer’s standpoint it would not be altogether correct to enter it under “Natural History,” as that term is properly held to include the flora as well as fauna, and therefore the heading should be either “Zoology” or “Animals.”
— from Manual of Library Cataloguing by John Henry Quinn

I urged that the old woman had done us no harm, and that I did not see why one should kill her; she reproached me for my weakness and said that, had she been strong enough, she would soon have done this abominable deed herself.
— from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. (Henry Brodribb) Irving