The value of that sort which sometimes does, and sometimes does not afford rent, should constantly rise in proportion to that which always affords some rent.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

But, besides the relation in which the understanding stands to objects (in theoretical knowledge), it has also a relation to the faculty of desire, which is therefore called the will, and the pure will, inasmuch as pure understanding (in this case called reason) is practical through the mere conception of a law.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

When this cerebral reorganisation is pertinent to the external situation and renders the man, when he resumes action, more a master of his world, the accompanying thought is said to be practical; for it brings a consciousness of power and an earnest of success.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Secondary infection undoubtedly plays the chief rôle in producing this condition, for the most severe forms are found only where caries and pyorrhœa preëxisted.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

A sum amounting to two millions and fourteen thousand pounds was confiscated from their estates towards repairing the mischief they had done, each man being allowed a certain residue in proportion to his conduct and circumstances, with which he might begin the world anew.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

The Polish engineer, who was commencing operations on this subdivision of Yonge Street, was Mr. Casimir Stanislaus Gzowski, whose subsequent Canadian career renders it probable that in setting up "the variety of sticks," the meaning of which Capt.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

[ After observing that the demerit of the Cappadocians rose in proportion to their rank and riches, he inserts a more pointed epigram, which is ascribed to Demodocus.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

This practice of observing strict chastity as a condition of success in hunting and fishing is very common among rude races; and the instances of it which have been cited render it probable that the rule is always based on a superstition rather than on a consideration of the temporary weakness which a breach of the custom may entail on the hunter or fisherman.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

"Whatever may be the kind of attention, voluntary or involuntary, it always acts alike; the image of an object or event is capable of revival, and of complete revival, in proportion to the degree of attention with which we have considered the object or event.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Just as the cults of stones, trees, fountains, lakes, and waters were absorbed by the new religion, so, it would seem, were all cults rendered in prehistoric times to Finn Mac Coul’s Lake and within the island cave.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

If cotton rose in price, the rent rose even higher; if cotton fell, the rent remained or followed reluctantly.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

We were able to agitate for it again at the annual meeting of the National Child Labor Committee which was held in Chicago in 1908, and which was of course reported in papers throughout the entire country.
— from Twenty Years at Hull House; with Autobiographical Notes by Jane Addams

The extensive alterations introduced in the French edition certainly render it probable that two different writers were concerned in the work.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 80, May 10, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

This method of 'plugging,' although practised by many, we cannot recommend in preference to the use of the hot iron or of liquid injections.
— from Diseases of the Horse's Foot by H. Caulton (Harry Caulton) Reeks

II Ten years ago on a Thursday afternoon in July, Lionel Woolley, as he walked up through the new park at Bursley to his celibate rooms in Park Terrace, was making addition sums out of various items connected with the institution of marriage.
— from Tales of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett

Another of the best speeches of Crassus, was that addressed to the people in favour of the law of Servilius Cæpio, restoring in part the judicial power to the Senate, of which they had been recently deprived, in order to vest it solely in the body of knights.
— from History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Vol. II by John Colin Dunlop

[of the Restriction Act] is, that while the convertibility into specie no longer exists as a check to an over-issue of paper, the Bank Directors have not perceived that the removal of that check rendered it possible that such an excess might be issued by the discount of perfectly good bills.
— from Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips

One he shot closely resembled in plumage the young Melospiza heermanni .
— from A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 3 of 3 by Robert Ridgway

The Chenáb riverain is poor, the Jhelam very fertile with good well irrigation.
— from The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir by Douie, James McCrone, Sir