They will be raking up everything against him.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

The more taxes may have been multiplied, the higher they may have been raised upon every different subject of taxation; the more loudly the people complain of every new tax, the more difficult it becomes, too, either to find out new subjects of taxation, or to raise much higher the taxes already imposed upon the old.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

This phase of the instinct, being the most primitive and fundamental, is most to be relied upon even in man.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

The allegory of Bacchus falling in love with a cast mistress, is extremely noble; for it is certain 388 that the affections always court and covet what has been rejected upon experience.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

"I've been routed up early all winter, and had to spend my days working for other people; so now I'm going to rest and revel to my heart's content."
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

"I've been routed up early all winter and had to spend my days working for other people, so now I'm going to rest and revel to my heart's content.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

In consequence of the notion, that duties upon consumable goods were taxes upon the profits of merchants, those duties have, in some countries, been repeated upon every successive sale of the goods.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

I come now to our second question: Does introspection give us materials for the knowledge of relations other than those arrived at by reflecting upon external perception?
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

There was but one child’s nurse, too; but what with grandmamma’s help, and good Mrs. Smyth’s assistance, and Edmund’s, which he judicially afforded, by running under every body’s feet who carried a baby, they contrived to manage till a second nurse could be procured.
— from First Love: A Novel. Vol. 1 of 3 by Mrs. (Margracia) Loudon

But the distinction, though very clear in later times, is by no means to be relied upon even in the thirteenth century.
— from Villainage in England: Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff

The exceptions only occur in high lands, in unusually propitious seasons, and ought never to be relied upon except when the earlier sowings have failed.
— from The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by P. L. (Peter Lund) Simmonds

Asinus sex linguarum jucundissimis anagrammatismis et epigrammatibus oneratus, tractionibus, depositionibus, et fustuariis probè dedolatus, hero suo remissus, ac instar prodromi præmissus, donec meliora sequantur, Asininitates aboleantur, virique boni restituantur: ubi etiam ostenditur ab asino salso intentata vitia non esse vitia.
— from The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein by Francis Douce

And how comfortable you feel afterward as you push back your chair, light a cigar, and beam round upon everybody.
— from The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

The limits of that power will not be reached until every [Pg 185] Christian soul is perfectly assimilated to that likeness, and bears all its beauty in its face, nor till every Christian soul is raised to participation in Christ's dignity and sits on His throne.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John by Alexander Maclaren

Just as we were leaving the station, one of the officers’ horses dashed in riderless, and was caught; and about two miles from the station we passed another on its back, ripped up either by a knife or buffalo horn.
— from Greater Britain: A Record of Travel in English-Speaking Countries During 1866-7 by Dilke, Charles Wentworth, Sir

It is crammed full of valuable advice for the deer hunter, and has the advantage of having been written before hunting became more of a pastime than a serious business, requiring untiring energy, great patience, cool nerves, and perfect sight.”— Chicago Tribune.
— from Neighbors Unknown by Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir

Orders had been received that, in case of matters taking a serious turn, the hundred or so of English women and children gathered at the Club would be removed under escort to Government House.
— from Far to Seek A Romance of England and India by Maud Diver

Similar banks of mud or sand, or both, render unnavigable every river that flows through the country.
— from The Kingdom of the Yellow Robe Being Sketches of the Domestic and Religious Rites and Ceremonies of the Siamese by Ernest Young