It had been my intention before this to remain in the West, even if I was made lieutenant-general; but when I got to Washington and saw the situation it was plain that here was the point for the commanding general to be.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

What else is it, but saying, what others sue for, we disdain so thoroughly, that without some consideration we will not accept it?
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

'But wot else is it, my lambs, as they sometimes ketches in rivers?' Chorus at a loss.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

This then that He is said "never to have made"; what else is it to say, than "in 'no time' to have made?"
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

In other words, each individual is at the same time an active and a passive agent in a transaction.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

The same thing I infer also from the cohering of two polish'd Marbles in vacuo , and from the standing of Quick-silver in the Barometer at the height of 50, 60 or 70 Inches, or above, when ever it is well-purged of Air and carefully poured in, so that its Parts be every where contiguous both to one another and to the Glass.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

If the world is a whole existing in itself, it must be either finite or infinite.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

My heavy head drooped over the table, and there was that kind of division in my thought when every idea in the brain seemed dogged by its shadow.
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

And we remark that our feeling of the strain of our inward attentiveness increases with every increase in the strength of the impressions on whose perception we are intent."
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

This pen is similar to Williams' in Washington, except it is somewhat larger; and besides, there were two small houses standing at opposite corners within the yard.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

He was early initiated into the political society to which his father belonged.
— from Seeing and Hearing by George William Erskine Russell

"I'll do that willingly enough, if I hear of him.
— from Ashton-Kirk, Investigator by John Thomas McIntyre

In spite of all his fine principles, if he happened to be rescued from drowning by Grace Darling, he would put her name in the newspaper; if he were tended in hospital by Clara Barton, he would sound her praise; and if his mother wrote as good letters as did Mrs. Trench, he would probably print them to the extent of five hundred pages, as the archdeacon did, and all his gospel of silence would exhale itself in a single sigh of regret in the preface.
— from Women and the Alphabet: A Series of Essays by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Let the [Pg 157] knowledge suffice that the fundamental principle of the pianoforte is as old as music itself, and that scientific learning, inventive ingenuity, and mechanical skill, tributary always to the genius of the art, have worked together for centuries to apply this principle, until the instrument which embodies it in its highest potency is become a veritable microcosm of music.
— from How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art by Henry Edward Krehbiel

Having an hour to pass before her departure, we employed it in a pleas- *
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 1 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing

Such a crisis is worth your being wholly engaged in it, as it will be glorious, important; and I may say it now, because necessary for the support of the great cause in which you acted so early and decisive a part.
— from Memoirs of General Lafayette With an Account of His Visit to America and His Reception By the People of the United States; From His Arrival, August 15th, to the Celebration at Yorktown, October 19th, 1824. by Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo) Knapp

At the same time, a still more profitable class of labourers was at work—first, men like Stephenson, who were engaged in improving the locomotive and making it a practicable and economical working power; and next, those like Edward Pease of Darlington, and Joseph Sandars of Liverpool, who were organising the means of laying down the railways.
— from Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson by Samuel Smiles

Of coquetry he was entirely innocent; it seemed too contemptible even for mere sport, and he scorned the thought of feeding his vanity by feminine sacrifices.
— from Infelice by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

We can't see through the fog, so couldn't find the plants, and probably your wiring diagrams would explode if I touched them.
— from Spacehounds of IPC by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith

[ 234 ] In applying statistics to an examination of the question whether and to what extent improvements in the general standard of education have in the past diminished crime, and consequently how far crime is likely to be still further diminished in the future, we must be careful to keep in sight two considerations—first, that an increased vigilance and elaboration on the part of authority may easily make it appear that crime has failed to diminish under educational influences, when it is only the detection and punishment of crime that have been rendered more perfect; and second, that if one kind of education have not had all the salutary effects expected of it, it does not follow that a different kind will not have all this expected efficacy and more.
— from A Hundred Years Hence: The Expectations of an Optimist by T. Baron Russell