Adam Smith no doubt anticipated and perhaps suggested to Malthus his thesis in such passages in the Wealth of Nations as, "Every species of animals [Pg 554] naturally multiplies in proportion to the means of their subsistence," "The demand for men necessarily regulates the production of men."
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

As to the personages actually ridiculed in "Every Man Out of His Humour," Carlo Buffone was formerly thought certainly to be Marston, as he was described as "a public, scurrilous, and profane jester," and elsewhere as the grand scourge or second untruss [that is, satirist], of the time (Joseph Hall being by his own boast the first, and Marston's work being entitled "The Scourge of Villainy").
— from Epicoene; Or, The Silent Woman by Ben Jonson

Aristobulus says that the youths asserted it was Callisthenes who instigated them to make the daring attempt; and Ptolemy says the same.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

Further, as no land is so well off as that which requires few imports, or none at all, so the happiest man is one who has enough in his own inner wealth, and requires little or nothing from outside for his maintenance, for imports are expensive things, reveal dependence, entail danger, occasion trouble, and when all is said and done, are a poor substitute for home produce.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer

I have, however, somewhat regained my strength, and am able, often, to devote as many hours a day as a person should devote to such work.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

I am too well aware that when, in the inscrutable decrees of Fate, you were reserved for me, it is possible you may have been reserved for one, destined, after a protracted struggle, at length to fall a victim to pecuniary involvements of a complicated nature.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

The Paris Districts are astir; Petitions signing: Saint-Huruge sets forth from the Palais Royal, with an escort of fifteen hundred individuals, to petition in person.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

The dative and ablative plural sometimes end in -ābus , particularly in deābus , goddesses , and fīliābus , daughters , to distinguish them from deīs , gods , and fīliīs , sons .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

But if not by knowledge, the only alternative which remains is that statesmen must have guided states by right opinion, which is in politics what divination is in religion; for diviners and also prophets say many things truly, but they know not what they say.
— from Meno by Plato

They are three noble citizens of Florence: Agnello Brunelleschi, Buoso degli Abati, and Puccio Sciancatto de’ Galigai—all said to have pilfered in private life, or to have abused their tenure of high office by plundering the Commonwealth.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

To the average man it is astonishing that anyone in his senses can be so foolish as to give £1,000 for an ugly little picture that has merely done duty as a postage stamp.
— from Stamp Collecting as a Pastime by Edward J. (Edward James) Nankivell

That evening it died, and a pale sun swung down a cloudless sky to a colorless horizon.
— from The Settler by Herman Whitaker

Now, we had had no meat for a great while, and we were completely worn out with dried apples and peas, so we immediately set about cooking our bacon.
— from A Virginia Girl in the Civil War, 1861-1865 being a record of the actual experiences of the wife of a Confederate officer by Myrta Lockett Avary

He gave himself up to the materialistic studies, to which the Flemish and Dutch painters were prone, painting diligently 'still life' in every form, taking his living subjects from the streets and way-sides, and keeping a peasant lad as an apprentice, 'who served him for a study in different actions and postures (sometimes crying, sometimes laughing), till Velasquez had grappled with every variety of expression.'
— from The Old Masters and Their Pictures, For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art by Sarah Tytler

Father Maillard, a young monk, received us at the door, and after pleasing salutations conducted us to our chambers, plainly furnished apartments with no carpets on the floor, but with good beds.
— from Letters from Switzerland by Samuel Irenæus Prime

The symptoms observed in poisoned dogs are almost precisely similar, the dose, according to body-weight, being the same.
— from Poisons, Their Effects and Detection A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts by Alexander Wynter Blyth

In one tent near me there was an occasional concert of a fife, a dish-bottom drum, and a primitive sort of triangles.
— from Notes of a Gold Digger, and Gold Diggers' Guide by James Bonwick

Ancestor-worship, too, which plays so conspicuous a part in early Aryan civilization, acted, no doubt, as a powerful strengthener of the force of custom, as is indicated by the fact that in many nations the traditionary originator of their laws is some powerful ancestor to whom the nation is accustomed to pay an especial reverence.
— from The Dawn of History: An Introduction to Pre-Historic Study by C. F. (Charles Francis) Keary

In the first two years of his reign, Hugh VII. was occupied in securing the hostages of his suffragans; in the third he swept the remaining Danish and Norwegian garrisons out of Ulster, and defeated a newly arrived force on the borders of Lough Foyle; the next the Danish Earls went on a foray into Scotland, and no exploit is to be recorded; in his sixth year, Hugh, with 1,000 chosen men of his own tribe and the aid of the Sil-Murray (O'Conor's) of Connaught, attacked and defeated a force of 5,000 Danes with their Leinster allies, near Dublin at a place supposed to be identical with Killaderry.
— from A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Volume 1 by Thomas D'Arcy McGee

A lampoon , which has been defined as a personal satire , attacks the individual rather than his fault, and is intended to injure rather than to reform.
— from The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. by Alfred Ayres