Cor varie inclinatur, nunc gaudens, nunc moerens; statim ex timore nascitur Zelotypia, furor, spes, desperatio.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

If nature be opposed to miracles, not only the distinction betwixt vice and virtue is natural, but also every event, which has ever happened in the world, EXCEPTING THOSE MIRACLES, ON WHICH OUR RELIGION IS FOUNDED.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

The king also made pouring vessels, in number eighty thousand, and a hundred thousand golden vials, and twice as many silver vials: of golden dishes, in order therein to offer kneaded fine flour at the altar, there were eighty thousand, and twice as many of silver.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

An act of vision is not so simple a matter as the student who asked her master if she should "paint nature as she saw nature" would seem to have thought.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

“Then the volcano is not totally extinct?” said the reporter.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I had seen in the duplicate bill.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

He asked me to consider what the only motive would be which would induce a woman to surrender herself to a man, when not only the considerations of money, fortune, position, and family prejudices, but also the various influences necessarily arising from these, had disappeared.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

Does not every breeze that softly stirs its fluttering folds say to her, "O friend, this veil is not yours, not yours," and still sighingly, "not yours!
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

There is, in like manner, a necessary connexion between the idea that a volition is now certainly and infallibly known to exist, and the truth of the proposition which affirms present existence of it; and hence, its present existence is necessary, by “a necessity of consequence,” according to the definition of President Edwards.
— from An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will by Albert Taylor Bledsoe

The carpels of buttercups and columbines, the cells in the capsules of cotton and many other plants are variable in number.
— from Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries

I have come unexpectedly upon them in India, then in Japan, afterwards they turned up, with some delicate Maori variations, in New Zealand when I was there.
— from A Gray Eye or So. In Three Volumes—Volume I, II and III: Complete by Frank Frankfort Moore

Like most villages in Northern India this one stood high on its own ruins, girt round by shallow glistening tanks which were at once its cradle and its grave.
— from On the Face of the Waters: A Tale of the Mutiny by Flora Annie Webster Steel

She hastily responded to the summons feeling there was some very important news to be received.
— from Within the Temple of Isis by Belle M. Wagner

"I do not, however, for a moment believe that your gallant State will suffer its soil to be used for the purpose of giving an advantage to those who violate its neutrality and disregard its rights, over others who respect both.
— from The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1 by Jefferson Davis