Maudsley points out that feelings that have once been present leave their unconscious residua which modify the total character and even reconstruct the moral sense as a resultant of particular experiences.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

About the honour of the Gods and the respect of parents, enough has been already said; and we may proceed to the topics which follow next in order, until the preamble is deemed by you to be complete; and after that you shall go through the laws themselves.
— from Laws by Plato

He was the sporting rival of Pierce Egan.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

Freeman charged us to remember our places; exhorted us to appear smart and lively,—sometimes threatening, and again, holding out various inducements.
— 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

Yet as Madam Dupin always supposed those I had to be very moderate, and never employed me except it was to write what she dictated, or in researches of pure erudition, the reproach, with respect to her, would have been unjust.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Romance of Polar Exploration G. F. Scott Seeley & Co.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

The Life of Henry VII. , published in 1622, is, in the opinion of Hallam, “the first instance in our language of the application of philosophy to reasoning on public events in the manner of the ancients and the Italians.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

With the renewal of physical existence goes, in the case of human beings, the recreation of beliefs, ideals, hopes, happiness, misery, and practices.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

In the first place, none of them should have any property of his own beyond what is absolutely necessary; neither should they have a private house or store closed against any one who has a mind to enter; their provisions should be only such as are required by trained warriors, who are men of temperance and courage; they should agree to receive from the citizens a fixed rate of pay, enough to meet the expenses of the year and no more; and they will go to mess and live together like soldiers in a camp.
— from The Republic by Plato

I mention these things to apologize for the long delay of an answer to the address of the Democratic republicans of Philadelphia, enclosed in your letter, and which has remained longer unanswered than I wished.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 5 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

This strong combination of the working factors of [Pg 135] the problem, suggested to the mind of Fern Fenwick the importance of first attempting to interest the minds of the people she wished to control, in the question of immortality as a natural fact that followed the dual nature of all human life, as a result of planetary evolution.
— from Solaris Farm: A Story of the Twentieth Century by Milan C. Edson

(4) Sects given to the religion of physical excitement; some being erotic, as the Jumpers; some flagellant, as the Khlysti; some fanatically ascetic, as the Skoptsi or Eunuchs.
— from A Short History of Christianity Second Edition, Revised, With Additions by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

Nay, there was a moment when Miss de Haldimar felt a pang of deep disappointment and regret at the misconception; for, with the fearful recollection of past events, so strongly impressed on her bleeding heart, she could not but acknowledge, that to be engulfed in one general and disastrous explosion, was mercy compared with the alternative of falling into the hands of those to whom her loathing spirit bad been too fatally taught to deny even the commonest attributes of humanity.
— from Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy — Volume 3 by Major (John) Richardson

I am accustomed to it now, and can look at a roomful of people engaged in it without a sympathetic attack of vertigo or a crick in my neck.
— from An American Girl in London by Sara Jeannette Duncan

" "Wouldn't you rather Mr. Vawdrey had him?" "Yes, if I were free to give him away; but I suppose you would deny my right of property even in the horse my father gave me."
— from Vixen, Volume III. by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

There seem to have been several gates into the churchyard with the right of private entry, one of which was used by the Duchess of Dudley.
— from Holborn and Bloomsbury by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton

Each House may adopt its own rules of proceedings, enforce order, and, with the concurrence of two-thirds, may expel a member.
— from Liberia: Description, History, Problems by Frederick Starr