As Engels rightly says in his footnote, this does not affect the final result of circulation, but the assumption is not the correct condition of circulation within society.
— from The Accumulation of Capital by Rosa Luxemburg

The famine may have been partly the cause of this change, but another if not the chief cause is the workhouses, where the old the feeble the sick and infirm poor are now supported, as the law designed, and as sound policy required that they should be.
— from A history of the Irish poor law, in connexion with the condition of the people by Nicholls, George, Sir

I know the healing anodyne in narrative, the classic consolation which that kind priest mentioned by Renan offered his congregation: "It took place so long ago that perhaps it never took place at all."
— from Hortus Vitae Essays on the Gardening of Life by Vernon Lee

By means of this trade, the Portuguese exchange their commodities for gold, which they carry to the castle of Mozambique, standing in an island near the Continental coast of Cafraria, on the coast of Ethiopia, 2800 miles distant from India.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 by Robert Kerr

This assurance is not the cool conclusion of a successful argument.
— from Practical Mysticism: A Little Book for Normal People by Evelyn Underhill

It loves well-drained and dry pastures and meadows, and is not the country covered with such?
— from Mushroom Culture: Its Extension and Improvement by W. (William) Robinson

I crouched lower and lower, as I neared the common centre, seeming to stoop under the weight of my burden.
— from With Force and Arms: A Tale of Love and Salem Witchcraft by Howard Roger Garis

Every case is individual, and in no two cases can you give exactly the same explanation.
— from The Book of Life by Upton Sinclair