If any impression gives rise to the idea of self, that impression must continue invariably the same, through the whole course of our lives; since self is supposed to exist after that manner.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Some went to a couple of old laptop screens she'd turned into standalone monitors, balanced on stands and bristling with exposed electronics.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

When John Browdie came to be spoken of, he dropped, by slow and gradual degrees, into a chair, and rubbing his hands upon his knees—quicker and quicker as the story reached its climax—burst, at last, into a laugh composed of one loud sonorous ‘Ha! ha!’
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Ag′riculture is the art of cultivating the ground, more especially with the plough and in large areas or fields, in order to raise grain and other crops for man and beast; including the art of preparing the soil, sowing and planting seeds, removing the crops, and also the raising and feeding of cattle or other live stock.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

Here I saw a part of the compassion of our Lady, Saint Mary: for Christ and she were so oned in love that the greatness of her loving was cause of the greatness of her pain.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

The cries of "O Lakshmana, save me," as if uttered by the master, came to the ears of Maithili.
— from The Rāmāyana, Volume Two. Āranya, Kishkindhā, and Sundara Kāndam by Valmiki

Old Froissart observes that it was an opinion commonly entertained by Englishmen, and the truth of which had been often exemplified from the days of King Arthur, that between every two valiant kings of England there was most commonly one of less sufficiency both of wit and of prowess.
— from Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies. Volume I by Anonymous

Had he done so his painting would have ranked no higher than the painting of Charles Cottet or of Lucien Simon.
— from Paul Gauguin, His Life and Art by John Gould Fletcher

A village consisting of one long street, near the confluence of the Isère with the Versoyen and Nantet.
— from The South of France—East Half by C. B. Black

The rich copper ores of Lake Superior are chiefly worked here, and nearly four thousand tons of refined copper are produced annually.
— from Peculiarities of American Cities by Willard W. Glazier

But, if a wife shall despise a husband, or a husband his wife, and if a quarrel between them shall boil over into a separation, then I do not will that the one of them that refuses to return to lawful union shall be made a slave according to the custom of our land; but rather that, by the slavery of our unchangeable decree, such persons, whoever they may be, shall be carried into Hungary; and it shall not be permitted to them to buy their liberty, or to return to this land, lest the contagion of one little sheep should creep into the whole sheep-fold of Christ.”
— from Bohemia, from the earliest times to the fall of national independence in 1620 With a short summary of later events by C. Edmund (Charles Edmund) Maurice