Now the above-mention'd Motions are so great and violent as to shew that in Fermentations the Particles of Bodies which almost rest, are put into new Motions by a very potent Principle, which acts upon them only when they approach one another, and causes them to meet and clash with great violence, and grow hot with the motion, and dash one another into pieces, and vanish into Air, and Vapour, and Flame.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

He took down a small cardboard box from a shelf, peeped in to see that the contents were all right, and put it down gently on the counter.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

The soul is an alien to the body, a nightingale to the air, a swallow in a house, and Ganymede in heaven, an elephant at Rome, a Phoenix in India; and such things commonly please us best, which are most strange and come the farthest off.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Was 32 years in the regt., and received a pension in June, 1841
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

There is implicit in custom a conception and a rule of action, which is regarded as right and proper in the circumstances.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

On the 7th of May the wagons were all loaded and General Taylor started on his return, with his army reinforced at Point Isabel, but still less than three thousand strong, to relieve the garrison on the Rio Grande.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

You are really a particularly intelligent, competent person, and it's time for you to call a halt to this nonsense and be the woman you were meant to be!
— from Plays by Susan Glaspell

"Agamemnon, when he offers to transfer to Achilles seven towns inhabited by wealthy husbandmen, who would enrich their lord by presents and tribute, seems likewise to assume rather a property in them, than an authority over them.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Such, in the latter days of the empire, was the leading class at Rome, and probably in the cities which aped the fashions of the capital.
— from The Old Roman World : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. by John Lord

He drove home as rapidly as possible in John Blosser's 1903 Pope-Toledo and was considerably aggravated to find his wife sound asleep.
— from Anderson Crow, Detective by George Barr McCutcheon

Note 19 ( return ) [ On the Advisableness of Improving Natural Knowledge: from Method and Results: also published in Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews.]
— from Autobiography and Selected Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

A similar defect of deliberative assemblies—such, at least, as represent any popular influences and debate with open doors—intercepts the very possibility of senatorial eloquence.
— from The Collected Writing of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. II by Thomas De Quincey

We know that the doctrine of equality leads by steps not only logical, but almost mechanical, to sacrifice the principle of liberty to the principle of quantity; that, being unable to abdicate responsibility and power, it attacks genuine representation, and, as there is no limit where there is no control, invades, sooner or later, both property and religion.
— from Letters of Lord Acton to Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron

You know that the treaty, which for eight years has allied Russia and Prussia is about to expire."
— from Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

Seth half led, half dragged him to the bow, and, bending down, uncoiled a rope and put it in his hands.
— from The Woman-Haters by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

At the present time, so far as the Roman Catholic Church is concerned, apparelled albs are only in regular use at Milan (Ambrosian Rite), and, partially, in certain churches in Spain.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

His whole view of advertisement reaches a peak in an article* entitled "If You Have Smiles."
— from Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Maisie Ward