For it is evident we observe no footsteps in them of making use of general signs for universal ideas; from which we have reason to imagine that they have not the faculty of abstracting, or making general ideas, since they have no use of words, or any other general signs.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

In fine, let us recognize that the adoption of my advice will leave us each citizens of a free state, and as such arbiters of our own destiny, able to return good or bad offices with equal effect; while its rejection will make us dependent on others, and thus not only impotent to repel an insult, but on the most favourable supposition, friends to our direst enemies, and at feud with our natural friends.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

I looked on a multitude of people, some white, in white coats, vests, pantaloons, even white cloth shoes, made snowy with chalk duly laid on every morning; but the majority of the people were almost as dark as negroes—women with comely features, fine black eyes, rounded forms, inclining to the voluptuous, clad in a single bright red or white garment that fell free and unconfined from shoulder to heel, long black hair falling loose, gypsy hats, encircled with wreaths of natural flowers of a brilliant carmine tint; plenty of dark men in various costumes, and some with nothing on but a battered stove-pipe hat tilted on the nose, and a very scant breech-clout;—certain smoke-dried children were clothed in nothing but sunshine—a very neat fitting and picturesque apparel indeed.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

Of coarse, governments founded on a different and it may be an antagonistic principle with ours naturally feel a pleasure at our complications, and, it may be, wish our downfall; but in the end England and France will join with us in jubilation at the triumph of constitutional government over faction.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

It can be opened and explained, so that people may understand how the waltzes are formed, and why one note follows upon another.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

To be your fellow You may deny me; but I'll be your servant, Whether you will or no. FERDINAND.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

For three days thereafter no house was swept; and, in one district, strict silence was observed, no fire might be given out, no wood cut, and no strangers received.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

The world of Nature for every man is the fantasy of himself; this world is the multiplex "image of his own dream."
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Crossing of the Roads, O secret glen and dusk of crowding woods, O narrow footpath creeping to the brink Where meet the Three!
— from Oedipus King of Thebes Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes by Sophocles

Wild reports of the wonders of New France had gone abroad, and a crowd of hungry adventurers had hastened to the land of promise, eager to grow rich, they scarcely knew how, and soon to return disgusted.
— from France and England in North America, Part I: Pioneers of France in the New World by Francis Parkman

Its rays had a shrewd bite in them which one never feels in the moist English summer, so that Madame never ventured to confront them at high noon without the protection of a helmet.
— from Madame Gilbert's Cannibal by Bennet Copplestone

The Senator replied that, if such was the President's decided wish, he would offer no further opposition.
— from Democracy, an American novel by Henry Adams

The days were not too hot and at night a fire was often necessary, for
— from Our Little Brazilian Cousin by Mary F. Nixon-Roulet

Are we resolved to approach it in proud humility, giving to the God within ourselves and within our neighbor freedom to declare the truth?"
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 by Various

"Well-a-day!" answered old Baucis, "I do wish our neighbors felt a little more kindness for their -145- fellow-creatures.
— from A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys by Nathaniel Hawthorne

BULSTRODE IN AMBUSH WAINEMAN, PAUL THE WIFE OF NICHOLAS FLEMING THE SONG OF FOREST THE BAY OF LILACS WATSON, H. B. MARRIOTT A MIDSUMMER DAY'S DREAM THE PRIVATEERS A POPPY SHOW THE FLOWER OF THE HEART THE CASTLE BY THE SEA TWISTED EGLANTINE THE HIGH TOBY ALISE OF ASTRA
— from God and the King by Marjorie Bowen

Also, each cell must be connected with other nerve filaments which carry impulses from the cranial, spinal and sympathetic centers to the cell, governing and directing its activities.
— from Nature Cure: Philosophy & Practice Based on the Unity of Disease & Cure by Henry Lindlahr

This was a matter of very great importance, as it was often necessary for Champlain to communicate with the different tribes in making treaties of friendship, in discussing questions of war with their enemies, in settling disagreements among themselves, and in making arrangements with them for the yearly purchase of their peltry.
— from Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 03 by Samuel de Champlain

The evening we passed with our new friend and his partner, both of whom were pleasant men.
— from Travels in Brazil by Henry Koster