In the immediate nearness of the gold, all else had been forgotten: his promise and the doctor's warning were both things of the past, and I could not doubt that he hoped to seize upon the treasure, find and board the Hispaniola under cover of night, cut every honest throat about that island, and sail away as he had at first intended, laden with crimes and riches.
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Jonson does not speak of the trial as of a contemporary or nearly contemporary event.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

Thus the changes of nature compensate each other, and are always adequate to their destined purpose; some of them congealing the elements of the stars and others dissolving them.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

Candour (subacid virtue) compels me to set down that there was nothing very notable or novel about the manipulation, by Messrs. HORACE ANNESLEY VACHELL and THOMAS COBB, of the comedy of needless complications entitled Mrs. Pomeroy's Reputation .
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 11, 1917 by Various

On March 7, said Captain Nation, a tower control operator named C. E. Edmundson saw a similar disk flying so fast it was almost a blur.
— from The Flying Saucers are Real by Donald E. (Donald Edward) Keyhoe

This property, which causes of all descriptions possess, of preventing the effects of other causes by virtue (for the most part) of the same laws according to which they produce their own, 115 enables us, by establishing the general axiom that all causes are liable to be counteracted in their effects by one another, to dispense with the consideration of negative conditions entirely, and limit the notion of cause to the assemblage of the positive conditions of the phenomenon: one negative condition invariably underst
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive by John Stuart Mill

And, indeed, his binding up the whole law with that command of not coveting, evidenceth that he will judge men by the inward affections and frames of their hearts.
— from The Existence and Attributes of God, Volumes 1 and 2 by Stephen Charnock

Their life, answered they, is their own, and not their Parents; for no part or creature of Nature can either give or take away life; but parts do onely assist and join with parts, either in dissolution or production of other Parts and Creatures.
— from The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World by Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of

This property, which causes of all descriptions possess, of preventing the effects of other causes by virtue (for the most part) of the same laws according to [pg 347] which they produce their own, 66 enables us, by establishing the general axiom that all causes are liable to be counteracted in their effects by one another, to dispense with the consideration of negative conditions entirely, and limit the notion of cause to the assemblage of the positive conditions of the phenomenon: one negative condition invariably understood, and the same in all instances (namely, the absence of all counteracting causes) being sufficient, along with the sum of the positive conditions, to make up the whole set of circumstances on which the phenomenon is dependent. § 4.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) by John Stuart Mill