[Pg 498] The theory of the mechanical transmission of acquired characteristics in a purely physical manner through the germ-plasm is no longer tenable when all the data of physiology and psychology are admitted.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Thus the beauty of all visible objects causes a pleasure pretty much the same, though it be sometimes derived from the mere species and appearance of the objects; sometimes from sympathy, and an idea of their utility.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Of these things I know more fully in detail how they take place, but I shall leave this unspoken; and of the mystic rites of Demeter, which the Hellenes call thesmophoria , of these also, although I know, I shall leave unspoken all except so much as piety permits me to tell.
— from An Account of Egypt by Herodotus

His hopes of Sindhia rested on a promise privately made to leave troops under his authority for the restoration of order in Mewar; and a yet stronger claim, the knowledge that without Zalim he could not realize the stipulated sums for the expulsion of the Chondawat from Chitor.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Instinctively a sense of my awful peril prompted me to cling to the sounding-rod which I had sunk drill-like into the ice.
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

But when the pleasant impertinent of comedy, in a piece purely meant to give delight, and raise mirth out of whimsical perplexities, worries the studious man with taking up his leisure, or making his house his home, the same sort of contempt expressed (however natural ) would destroy the balance of delight in the spectators.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

Associated with Desplein, at this same time, he cared for the dying Honorine, wife of Comte de Bauvan [Honorine.], and examined the daughter of Baron de Bourlac—M. Bernard—who was suffering from a peculiar Polish malady, the plica.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Mellichius, Cordus, Wecker, Quercetan, Renodeus, the Venetian, Florentine states have their several receipts, and magistrals: they of Nuremberg have theirs, and Augustana Pharmacopoeia, peculiar medicines to the meridian of the city: London hers, every city, town, almost every private man hath his own mixtures, compositions, receipts, magistrals, precepts, as if he scorned antiquity, and all others in respect of himself.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

It cost a pretty penny, moreover, to get it repaired.
— from Stage-coach and Tavern Days by Alice Morse Earle

The rising of 101 this star to a prominent position marks the period of the ever welcome rains, when the parched earth drinks in the refreshing flood, and the flowers spring from the soil.
— from Persian Literature, Ancient and Modern by Elizabeth A. (Elizabeth Armstrong) Reed

I thot myself insane, but after an examination, a physician pronounced me that I had been strained mentally.
— from Futuria Fantasia, Winter 1940 by Ray Bradbury

They had scarcely begun eating, when she flew into a tantrum: she was astounded at hearing him talk of selling their seventy-five shares at the unhoped-for figure of two thousand five hundred and twenty francs, which would have yielded them a hundred and eighty-nine thousand francs, in truth a pretty profit, more than a hundred thousand francs above the price at which they bought the stock.
— from Money (L'Argent) by Émile Zola

And I am positively preparing myself to enjoy this delightful revenge.
— from Fairy Fingers A Novel by Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie

It is what architects call a periapsidal plan, meaning that its eastern termination contains a processional aisle or ambulatory, designed mainly for the purpose of allowing a procession to pass round the high altar without entering the presbytery.
— from Winchester by Sidney Heath

"Child," she said, earnestly, almost piteously, "promise me that in the future you will never blame me for opening the stage-door to you.
— from A Pasteboard Crown: A Story of the New York Stage by Clara Morris

Besides, the characters which Aristotle gives to his laconic dog agree with those of the shepherd’s dog, and perfectly persuade me they are the same.
— from Buffon's Natural History. Volume 10 (of 10) Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c by Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de