This evening I come home from White Hall with Sir W. Pen, who fell in talk about his going to sea this year, and the difficulties that arise to him by it, by giving offence to the Prince, and occasioning envy to him, and many other things that make it a bad matter, at this time of want of money and necessaries, and bad and uneven counsels at home,—for him to go abroad: and did tell me how much with the King and Duke of York he had endeavoured to be excused, desiring the Prince might be satisfied in it, who hath a mind to go; but he tells me they will not excuse him, and I believe it, and truly do judge it a piece of bad fortune to W. Pen. 25th.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

There is no branch of a man’s education, no portion of his intercourse with other men, and no quality which will stand him in good stead more frequently than the capability of writing a good letter upon any and every subject.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

The latter untrustworthy book Arrian wished to supplant 4 by his own narrative, principally based on the works of Megasthenes and Nearchus.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

Co. Wild Neighbors Ingersoll Wireless Telegraphy A. F. Collins Woodcraft Sears Century Co. Woodmyth and Fable Seton Century Co. Wonders of Man and Nature R. Whiting Woodcraft Nessmuk Forest & Strean Woodworking for Beginners Wheeler Young Folk's Nature Field Book J. A. Loring Dana Estes Co. CAMPCRAFT Around the Campfire C. G. D. Roberts An Old Fashioned Sugar Camp P. G. Huston Revell Co.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

When in Constantinople I met a Hebrew Christian colporteur named Solomon, who offered me a New Testament.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

During the whole time I have been here he has visited me, and conversed with me sometimes, and proved the worthiest of men; and now how generously he weeps for me!
— from Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato

Mr. Crummles lived in St Thomas’s Street, at the house of one Bulph, a pilot, who sported a boat-green door, with window-frames of the same colour, and had the little finger of a drowned man on his parlour mantelshelf, with other maritime and natural curiosities.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

The investigations always yield the same results, the information often covers a wealth of material and necessitates lengthy elaboration.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

In the most savage times, and the most corrupt courts, since the introduction of Christianity there have been no Neros or Domitians, no Commodus or Elagabalus.—M.] The most worthless of mankind are not afraid to condemn in others the same disorders which they allow in themselves; and can readily discover some nice difference of age, character, or station, to justify the partial distinction.
— 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

The significations and Etymologies of the words of Magie and Necromancie.
— from Daemonologie. by King of England James I

With Original Memoirs and Notes by Sir Harris Nicolas , and 61 Copperplate Illustrations.
— from Chatto & Windus's List of Books, July 1878 by Chatto & Windus (Firm)

I feel that you are worthy of my anger now.'
— from Carter, and Other People by Don Marquis

In returning from Tunis I came by way of Malta and Naples, where I got an Orient steamer which brought me to Plymouth.
— from Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885 by T. Wemyss (Thomas Wemyss) Reid

[Pg 264] Except that I am too much encumber'd with Business, I find myself happily situated here, among my numerous Friends, plac'd at the Head of my Country by its unanimous Voice, in the Bosom of my Family, my Offspring to wait on me and nurse me, in a House I built 23 Years since to my Mind.
— from Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed, Volume 1 (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce

Being in violent [Pg 42] good-humor and high spirits; her weakness of mind and natural folly were rendered more decidedly conspicuous; while, on the other hand, Philip being in low spirits was more observant of, and more annoyed by, these petty vexations.
— from Rank and Talent; A Novel, Vol. 2 (of 3) by William Pitt Scargill

Appeals were often made, and not in vain, to the patriotism of the wealthy, who were in fact the very persons that suffered comparatively the most.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

Now, a friend of Borget, a great chemist, possesses a secret by which to extract gold and silver in whatever way and in whatever proportion they are mixed with other material, at no great cost.
— from Letters to Madame Hanska, born Countess Rzewuska, afterwards Madame Honoré de Balzac, 1833-1846 by Honoré de Balzac

The accounts received were so accurate as to assure him that the Gibraltar fleet was far superior to his own in size of vessels, weight of metal, and number of combatants.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

“The wayis of man are not in his awn power.
— from Life of John Knox, Fifth Edition, Vol. 1 of 2 Containing Illustrations of the History of the Reformation in Scotland by Thomas M'Crie