Wherever the Puritans have been sufficiently powerful, as in New England, and in Great Britain at the time of the Commonwealth, they have endeavoured, with considerable success, to put down all public, and nearly all private, amusements: especially music, dancing, public games, or other assemblages for purposes of diversion, and the theatre.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

He works freely and is not to be supposed to have arranged every part of the dialogue before he begins to write.
— from Phaedrus by Plato

I don’t know—he never came back again.” “Where’s Van Bummel, the schoolmaster?” “He went off to the wars, too; was a great militia general, and is now in Congress.” Rip’s heart died away, at hearing of these sad changes in his home and friends, and finding himself thus alone in the world.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

It is true; in order to make a perfect union among passions, there is always required a double relation of impressions and ideas; nor is one relation sufficient for that purpose.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

She said, “My daughter is now with the son of the new Governor, and I never see her at all; she never comes home, and she has been away for two or three months.
— from Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Faries by Yuk Yi

These “justifications,” however, are in no way connected with the origin or the degree of the feeling: people simply
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Cities are Sepulchers; they who dwell there Are carcases, as if no such there were.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

The temple of Apis is near the Hephæsteium (or temple of Vulcan); the Hephæsteium 852 itself is very sumptuously constructed, both as regards the size of the naos and in other respects.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

With this message the heralds rode off, but were back again in no time, which was a proof that the king, or some one appointed by him to transact the business, was hard by.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

Rather more than one-third of it had been prepared by the late Rev. James Mackenzie, when, his untimely death interrupted his labours; the rest of the book is written by Dr. Rainy, who, once a pupil of Cunningham's, was afterwards his pastor and most intimate friend, and is now his successor in the Chair of Historical Theology.
— from British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIV July and October, 1871 by Various

Hiller now saw that he had been wrong in not taking my advice before, and in not shortening the opera by one act and altering the end, and he now fancied that he was doing me a great favour by at last declaring himself ready to act on my suggestion in the event of another performance of his opera being possible.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

The archaic character of these paintings indicates the age of the wall, which, nevertheless (unlike the corresponding wall in the Markenfield Chapel), seems to have been an afterthought, since it differs from the other walls in the coursing of the stone and in the pattern of the string-course, and, moreover, at its northern end there is a ‘straight joint,’ visible in the choir-aisle.
— from Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric by Cecil Walter Charles Hallett

all is not true, All is not ever as it seemeth now.
— from Complete Poetical Works by Bret Harte

Dear mother, how beautiful it is, this region of spacious dignity, where all is noble and proportioned, where outlines are so beautifully defined!—the road bordered with trees diminishing towards the frontier, hills, and beyond them misty heights which one guesses to be the German Vosges.
— from Letters of a Soldier, 1914-1915 by Eugène Emmanuel Lemercier

They quitted the kloof and its neighbouring mountains with strangely mingled feelings.
— from The Gold Kloof by H. A. (Henry Anderson) Bryden

Seyd Kandil was exiled for twenty years, but was allowed quietly to come back, and is now at his country place in Egypt, and I have often talked over the affair with him.
— from Secret History of the English Occupation of Egypt Being a Personal Narrative of Events by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

Leaving Kharas on the 5th, we came to an island named Soridan 40 miles from the coast, the whole days course from sunrise to sunset being 100 miles.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

"I'm not at liberty to tell much about it now, but—well, the reason I came in was to find out what you could tell me about a Miss Winslow,—Violet Winslow and her aunt, Mrs. Beekman de Lancey."
— from Guy Garrick by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve