Art, like life, is apt to languish if it gets too far away from primitive conditions.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

Thus, in Boileau's book, we find four different corporations of patenôtriers , or makers of chaplets, six of hatters, six of weavers, &c. Besides these societies of artisans, there were in Paris a few privileged corporations, which occupied a more important position, and were known under the name of Corps des Marchands .
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

Don Quixote was about to thank him, when they heard behind them a noise as of a troop of horses; there was, however, but one, riding on which at a furious pace came a youth, apparently about twenty years of age, clad in green damask edged with gold and breeches and a loose frock, with a hat looped up in the Walloon fashion, tight-fitting polished boots, gilt spurs, dagger and sword, and in his hand a musketoon, and a pair of pistols at his waist.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Not having sufficient strength to claim a great amount of liberty, they were obliged to be satisfied with a few privileges, conceded to them by the nobles, for the most part with a political end.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

The most common affirmations of beauty stimulate each other reciprocally; where the æsthetic impulse once begins to work, a whole host of other and foreign perfections crystallise around the "particular form of beauty."
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

At the rate of exchange at Hamburg I found I should have seventy-two thousand francs, although at five per cent.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The boys who are put out apprentices from public charities are generally bound for more than the usual number of years, and they generally turn out very idle and worthless.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

It has been estimated that about fifty per cent of Scan dinavian emigrants, arrive by prepaid passage tickets secured by relatives in this country.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

Killing the Sacred Turtles IN THE CALIFORNIAN, Egyptian, and Fernando Po customs the worship of the animal seems to have no relation to agriculture, and may therefore be presumed to date from the hunting or pastoral stage of society.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

People knew that they were courting and, when he sang about the lass that loves a sailor, she always felt pleasantly confused.
— from Dubliners by James Joyce

The programmes are for progressive conversation.
— from The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

“Exonerated,” he said, cheerfully, and they brushed a finely pulverized compound over the note, seeking to bring into relief the possible finger-prints thereon.
— from The Mystery of the Fifteen Sounds by Van Powell

Whether you will be angry or not I cannot tell, and, truth to tell you, sweetheart, I am far past caring.
— from The Lilac Sunbonnet: A Love Story by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

They were erected in the time of the Lower Empire, and were the asylums to which the sovereigns retired when compelled to abdicate the throne: many of them were the retreats of those who were mutilated or blinded by their successors; many were the receptacles where guilt and remorse sought, by solitude and penance, to atone for past crimes.
— from Constantinople and the Scenery of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor Series One and Series Two in one Volume by R. (Robert) Walsh

Taiwan Army, Navy (includes Marine Corps), Air Force, Coast Guard Administration, Armed Forces Reserve Command, Combined Service Forces Command, Armed Forces Police Command Tajikistan Ground Forces, Air and Air Defense Forces, Mobile Forces (2008)
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

And definitively, in 1713, fixed at five per cent., the ordinary rate of interest throughout Europe.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

im öffentlichen Dienst public servant Arbeitnehmer, Beschäftigter jobholder Arbeitnehmerbeitrag, Arbeitnehmeranteil employee's contribution Arbeitnehmerrechte employment rights Arbeitnehmervertreter labor representative Arbeitnehmervertretung workers' representation Arbeitnehmerüberlassungsfirma temporary employment agency Arbeitnehmerüberlassungsunternehmen temporary employment agency Arbeitsablauf flow of work Arbeitsablauf operations layout Arbeitsablaufdarstellung flow process chart Arbeitsablaufdiagramm flow sheet Arbeitsablaufdiagramm process chart Arbeitsablaufkarte process card Arbeitsablaufplan job schedule Arbeitsablaufstudie methods study Arbeitsamt employment exchange Arbeitsamt employment office Arbeitsanforderung, Arbeitsplatzanforderung job requirement Arbeitsanleitung instruction sheet Arbeitsaufteilung, Arbeitsumverteilung work-sharing Arbeitsauftrag factory order Arbeitsauftrag manufacturing order Arbeitsauftrag work order Arbeitsauftrag
— from Mr. Honey's Work Study Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

153 For a final purpose cannot be commanded by any law of Reason without this latter at the same time promising, however uncertainly, its attainableness; and thus justifying our belief in the special conditions under which alone our Reason can think it as attainable.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

If it should be said that this is not a fair illustration, and that the depression in the iron districts arises from peculiar circumstances unconnected with the question of Free Trade, we reply, that to the iron trade, more perhaps than to any other in the kingdom, the most extravagant representations were made of the increased consumption which must follow on the opening of the ports.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 71, No. 438, April 1852 by Various

Mingy calculated upon discussing all points which wanted further elucidation, over cold pork and mustard; but here he was disappointed, for hardly had each helped himself abundantly when the room was flooded by a stream of the usual guests, who seemed just returned from some successful enterprise, so that any further private conversation was at an end.
— from The Forgery; or, Best Intentions. by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James