I have observed that the parallel direction of the desires is a real relation, and no less than a resemblance in their sensation, produces a connexion among them.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Twice at least during the years of Choiseul's ministry there occurred opportunities which a resolute, ready, and not too scrupulous government might easily have converted into a cause of war; the more so as they involved that sea power which is to England above all other nations the object of just and jealous concern.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

With hermaphrodite organisms which cross only occasionally, and likewise with animals which unite for each birth, but which wander little and can increase at a rapid rate, a new and improved variety might be quickly formed on any one spot, and might there maintain itself in a body and afterward spread, so that the individuals of the new variety would chiefly cross together.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

The substance to which this form is given remains irrational; so that rationality, like all excellence, is something secondary and relative, requiring a natural being to possess or to impute it.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

They search databases for information about new sources of information, and regularly read about new services.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

One: a squat stuffed easychair, with stout arms extended and back slanted to the rere, which, repelled in recoil, had then upturned an irregular fringe of a rectangular rug and now displayed on its amply upholstered seat a centralised diffusing and diminishing discolouration.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

The following is what takes place: A large concourse of people of all ages assemble, and sit down round a circle of stones, which is erected by the side of a road (really a narrow path).
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

763 Fabianus Papirius, a Roman rhetorician and naturalist, whose works are highly commended by Pliny and Seneca.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

Those institutions have already shown themselves competent to purchase and furnish domestic exchange for the convenience of trade at reasonable rates, and not a doubt is entertained that in a short period all the wants of the country in bank accommodations and exchange will be supplied as promptly and as cheaply as they have heretofore been by the Bank of the United States.
— from State of the Union Addresses by Andrew Jackson

I see it as a royal road, and not a pathway; a road upon which whosoever really enters, travels most securely.
— from The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus, of the Order of Our Lady of Carmel by Teresa, of Avila, Saint

Though a risky row, and not previously attempted, it was not regarded as a remarkable feat by the performers.
— from The Story of Isaac Brock Hero, Defender and Saviour of Upper Canada, 1812 by Walter R. Nursey

The railroad connecting Weimar and Rudolstadt, near which Keilhau is located, was built long after, so we continued our journey in an open carriage and reached Rudolstadt about noon.
— from The Story of My Life — Volume 03 by Georg Ebers

They are as follows: an oriental period, representing a disequilibrium between idea and form, with prevalence of the second; a classical, representing an equilibrium between idea and form; a romantic, representing a new disequilibrium between idea and form, with prevalence of the idea.
— from Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Benedetto Croce

My wife was in another room reading a new book in which she was greatly interested.
— from A Guest at the Ludlow, and Other Stories by Bill Nye

It is a rapid river apparently not so deep and often not so wide as the Kishun-gunga, its bed strewn with huge boulders over which the water breaks in great waves of foam.
— from Three Months of My Life by J. F. (John Frederick) Foster