But, upon my word, Mr. Elton, in your case, I should certainly excuse myself.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

But government extends farther its beneficial influence; and not contented to protect men in those conventions they make for their mutual interest, it often obliges them to make such conventions, and forces them to seek their own advantage, by a concurrence in some common end or purpose.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

The amours and attachments of Harry the IVth of France, during the civil wars of the league, frequently hurt his interest and his cause; but all the young, at least, and amorous, who can sympathize with the tender passions, will allow that this very weakness, for they will readily call it such, chiefly endears that hero, and interests them in his fortunes.
— from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume

—An occupational name for various classes in South Canara, e.g. , Sappaligas, Mogilis, and Patramelas, who are engaged as musicians.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

In so far as it may communicate something of the triumphant energy of the artist who has become master of the ugly and the repulsive; [Pg 245] or in so far as it gently excites our lust of cruelty (in some circumstances even the lust of doing harm to ourselves, self-violence, and therewith the feeling of power over ourselves). 803. "Beauty" therefore is, to the artist, something which is above all order of rank, because in beauty contrasts are overcome, the highest sign of power thus manifesting itself in the conquest of opposites; and achieved without a feeling of tension:
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

castles in the air, castles in Spain, chateaux en Espagne[Fr], le pot aut lait[Fr], Utopia, millennium; day dream, golden dream; dream of Alnaschar[obs3]; airy hopes, fool's paradise; mirage &c. (fallacies of vision) 443; fond hope.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

The counterpropaganda to the British Broadcasting Corporation is slight; chief emphasis is on entertainment value of the German radio programs.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

The colonists in such case enjoyed all the rights of Roman citizens, the town in which they lived being founded under the supervision of the Roman magistracy.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

Note 2 ( return ) [ In the time of Theodoret, the diocese of Cyrrhus, in Syria, contained eight hundred villages.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

It may be also borne in mind that in other tales of Florence it is distinctly stated that spirits confined in statues, columns, et cetera , only inhabit them “as bees live in hives.”
— from Legends of Florence: Collected from the People, First Series by Charles Godfrey Leland

Such caps are worn by various classes in South Canara, e.g. , the Holeyas and Koragas.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 3 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

The nature of this responsibility which is evidenced by the Chancellor signing the Emperor's edicts and other official statements, is so frequently discussed by German politicians, the position of the Chancellor—the Grand Vizier of Germany he has been picturesquely called—is so influential, and the intercourse between the Emperor and the Chancellor is so close, exclusive, and confidential, that an examination of the meaning of the term "responsibility" in this connexion is desirable.
— from William of Germany by Stanley Shaw

I ain't so werry much supprized as I ort to be, to learn that the ouse of Commons—ouse of "Short Commons," I shud call 'em—has passed this most wicked Law, cos werry pore peeple ain't got no votes ; but I do confess as I am supprised at the most respectabel and harrystocrattick House of Lords a condesendin not merely to rob a pore man of his Beer, but to rob a poor Made Servant of her 2 Ginneys reward for behaviour like a Angel for four long weary years in the same place, be it a good 'un or a werry ard 'un, and to purwent a lot of pore hard working Men and Women from getting their little stock of Coles in at about a quarter of the reglar price!
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 22, 1890 by Various

The theory advanced was that since everything is afloat in the colourless, intangible something called ether (not the drug used as an anæsthetic), and that since waves of light, heat, and electricity travel through ether, it would be possible to send electrical impulses through the ether in the earth and air, just as well as through the ether in a copper wire.
— from The Boy's Book of New Inventions by Harry E. (Harry Edward) Maule

[Pg 284] where we find the thought that the human intellect differs from the divine extensivè, but not intensivè, and that if the divine intellect knows infinitely more about mathematical propositions because it knows them all, yet "of these few facts known by the human intellect, its knowledge is equal to that of the divine in objective certainty, since it attains comprehension of the necessity than which no greater certainty, it seems, can exist."
— from The Philosophy of Giambattista Vico by Benedetto Croce

Chacun s'empressoit d'y prendre part, non pour briller, mais pour être utile.--Avec quelle joie ils apprirent qu'il s'élevoit une société semblable à la leur dans Paris, dans cette capitale immense, si célèbre en
— from The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 by Various

The friction or clash of the huge stones, hurled against each other in their fall, produced so intense a heat that flames were seen to flash forth from the avalanche, and the moisture with which they were saturated, being suddenly changed into steam, caused explosions like those from the crater of a volcano.
— from The Subterranean World by G. (Georg) Hartwig