The pro and con of the question alternately prevail; and the mind, surveying the object in its opposite principles, finds such a contrariety as utterly destroys all certainty and established opinion.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

This man, whose name was Beaufort, was of a proud and unbending disposition, and could not bear to live in poverty and oblivion in the same country where he had formerly been distinguished for his rank and magnificence.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The process is one of assimilation, largely by imitation and under direction and control.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

Under the history of Bacchus, is drawn the nature of unlawful desire or affection, and disorder; for the appetite and thirst of apparent good is the mother of all unlawful desire, though ever so destructive, and all unlawful desires are conceived in unlawful wishes or requests, rashly indulged or granted before they are well understood 386 or considered, and when the affection begins to grow warm, the mother of it (the nature of good) is destroyed and burnt up by the heat.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

This man, whose name was Beaufort, was of a proud and unbending disposition and could not bear to live in poverty and oblivion in the same country where he had formerly been distinguished for his rank and magnificence.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Diesmwyth, a. uneasy Dietifedd, a. childish Dieuog, a. guiltless Dieurwydd,
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

enough Digonedd, n. abundance Digoni, v. to suffice, to satisfy Digoniant, n. prevalency Digonoi, a. sufficient; sated Digonoldeb, n. abundance Digonoli, v. to satiate Digor, n. habit; passion Digorffori, v. to disembody Digosp, a. unpunished Digost, a. without expense Digraff, a. not keen Digraid, a. impassionate Digrain, n. error: a wandering Digrawn, a. unaccumulated Digred, a. unbelieving, infidel Digreulon, a. not cruel Digribddail, a. without extortion Digrif, a. amusing, jocose Digrifâu, v. to amuse, to please Digrifedd, n. pleasantry Digrifwch, n. amusement Digrintach, a. not miserly Digroen, a. having no skin Digroniad, a. unbounded Digrybwyll, a. not alluded to Digrych, a. unwrinkled Digryn, a. without trembling Digryno, a. incompact, untidy Digu, a. not affectionate Digudd, a. unconcealed Digus, a. displeasing Digwl, a. blameless, faultless Digwsg, a. sleepless Digwydd, a. without lapse Digydwybod, a. unconscionable Digyfaill, a. friendless Digyfanedd, a. not domestic Digyfarwydd, a uninformed Digyfieuo, v. to disjoin Digyfludd, a. unimpeded Digyfnerth, a. helpless Digyfnewid, a. unchangeable Digyfoeth, a without wealth Digyfraid, wanting necessaries Digyfraith, a. lawless Digyfran, a. unparticipated Digyfrif, a. of no account Digyfrwng, a. not intervening Digyfrwydd, a. unpropitious Digyfwng, a. close, immediate Digyfyng, a. unconfined Digyffelyb, a. dissimilar, unparallelled Digyffro, a. undisturbed Digyngor, a. void of council Digyngwedd, a. unassimilating Digyngyd, a. inconsiderate Digymal, a. jointless Digymeriad, a. of no estimation Digymhar, a. matchless Digymhell, a. unconstrained Digymhorth, a. helpless Digymhwyll, a. irrational Digymwl, a. cloudless Digymysg, a. uncompounded Digynaliaeth, a. without support or maintenance Digynedd, a. without virtue Digynhen, a. not discordant Digynhwrf, a. unagitated Digyniwair
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

The mischiefs which I apprehend and urgently deprecate are confined to no class of the people, indeed, but seem to me most certainly to threaten the industrious masses, whether their occupations are of skilled or common labor.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

, as everyone was listening for the fall of the tottering wall, some one caught sight of the moving figures, and a deafening cheer rose up as Uncle Dick appeared carrying the legs and Uncles Jack and Bob the arms of a man.
— from Patience Wins: War in the Works by George Manville Fenn

I have been often, Mr. President, the object of bitter and unmeasured detraction and calumny.
— from Thirty Years' View (Vol. 2 of 2) or, A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850 by Thomas Hart Benton

But, to my mind, a provision, far more objectionable than the antiquated and unsatisfactory method of arbitration provided, was that which made an arbitral award reviewable on appeal to the Body of Delegates of the League, which could set aside the award even if the arbitrators had rendered a unanimous decision and compel a rehearing before other arbitrators.
— from The Peace Negotiations: A Personal Narrative by Robert Lansing

We cannot think, however, that all will be equally receptive, calling to mind that even in our own country multitudes of people substitute an unrealized doctrine about Christ for Christ Himself (i.e. convert Christ into a church doctrine), while others invoke Christ, with or without the saints, in place of God.
— from The Reconciliation of Races and Religions by T. K. (Thomas Kelly) Cheyne

Swelling words, violent gestures, absurd mannerisms, empty phrases, and unnatural dialogue are cherished upon the stage, and thence communicated to society.
— from Human Follies (La Bêtise Humaine.) by Jules Noriac

The writer of the letter was annoyed by the circumstance, to an unusual degree, and caused a severe notice of censure upon the Post-Office Department, to be inserted in one of the leading New York journals.
— from Ten Years Among the Mail Bags Or, Notes from the Diary of a Special Agent of the Post-Office Department by James Holbrook

The cup would reach Mr. Fargus at the speed of a thunderbolt; and Mr. Fargus, waiting for it with agitated hands as a nervous fielder awaits a rushing cricket ball, would stop it convulsively and usually drop and catch at and miss the spoon, whereupon the entire chain of Farguses would give together a very loud " Tchk !" and immediately shoot at their parent a plate of buns with "Buns—Buns—Buns—Buns" all down the line.
— from If Winter Comes by A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth) Hutchinson

Judge Chase, as usual, delivered a charge to the grand jury, on the first day of the term.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 3 (of 16) by United States. Congress