It is doubtless this fact which is the cause of the disposition to identify an uncultivated person with an illiterate person—so dependent are we on letters for effective representative or indirect experience.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

If we only look far enough off for the consequence of our actions, we can always find some point in the combination of results by which those actions can be justified; by adopting the point of view of a Providence who arranges results, or of a philosopher who traces them, we shall find it possible to obtain perfect complacency in choosing to do what is most agreeable to us in the present moment.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

I have often heard it asserted that the winters of Lombardy, for example, are not less rigorous than those of Scotland, which results from the sea restoring during the winter the heat which it received during the summer.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

He gave five hundred marks to be a stock for sea-coal; his lands purchased of the king, the rent thereof to be distributed to the poor in the wards of London for ever.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

The signal-fire on Mount Hope demanded most of Armitage's attention; When not engaged in gathering fuel, he went on long foraging expeditions.
— from By Right of Conquest: A Novel by Arthur Hornblow

When the knight was once lured far enough to make the return impossible, when he had been turned round and round till he knew no longer where his head was, then the moment had come when he might go up to him and say: Honored knight, what will you give your Pylades if he enables you to possess all the glorious things which heretofore have been mere phantoms seen in voluptuous dreams, in tangible reality?
— from Through Night to Light: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen

To them, generations of men and women only live from eighteen to twenty-four hours.
— from The World on Wheels, and Other Sketches by Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin) Taylor

But that night, as he lay awake, he thought that such doctrines as these were fatal in times when there was one law for everybody, and foresaw the first beginnings of the ruin of the d’Esgrignons.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Pare and core, without splitting, some small-sized tart apples, and boil them very gently with one lemon for every six apples, till a straw will pass through them.
— from Miss Beecher's Domestic Receipt Book Designed as a Supplement to Her Treatise on Domestic Economy by Catharine Esther Beecher

What travelers go to visit from Peking is merely a loop wall of later formation, enclosing portions of Chihli and Shan-hsi.
— from The War in the East: Japan, China, and Corea by Trumbull White

Oh, if it would only last for ever!
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 07, Issue 40, April, 1894 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

Italy attracted to itself by the power of political leadership the precious metals and wares of luxury from every part of the Empire; the largest quantity of these things passed through Rome, before being scattered throughout the peninsula in exchange for the agricultural and industrial products of Italy, consumed in the capital.
— from Characters and events of Roman History by Guglielmo Ferrero