But, if he leaves out of this his complex idea that of fixedness quite, without either actually joining to or separating it from the rest in his mind, it is, I think, to be looked on as an inadequate and imperfect idea, rather than a false one; since, though it contains not all the simple ideas that are united in nature, yet it puts none together but what do really exist together. 19.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

Il s'agit de la version internet de la première édition, à savoir 17 volumes de texte et 11 volumes de planches; (3) Dictionnaires d'autrefois (16e-19e siècles): Dictionnaires de l'Académie française, 1re (1694), 5e (1798), et 6e (1835) éditions, Dictionarium latinogallicum de Robert Estienne, Thresor de la langue françoyse (versions ancienne et moderne) de Jean Nicot, Dictionnaire historique et critique de Pierre Bayle; (4) le Catalogue critique des ressources textuelles sur internet (CCRTI), un ensemble de sites qui diffusent des ressources textuelles en ligne sur le web, sélectionnés en fonction de leur sérieux sur le plan du traitement éditorial et du traitement numérique des textes; (5) le Dictionnaire de l'Académie française, 8e édition (1932).
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Pour ces raisons, durant ces cinq dernières années, le gouvernement des Etats-Unis a financé des recherches en traduction automatique, en résumé automatique de texte et en recherche documentaire, et il s'intéresse au lancement d'un nouveau programme de recherche en informatique documentaire multilingue.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Coffee Exports from the Dominican Republic Exported to 1906 Pounds 1913 Pounds 1920 Pounds United States 564,291 506,456 529,831 France 569,215 1,248,418 454,165 Germany 1,562,193 327,843 69,224 Italy [B] 195,294 51,543 Cuba [B] 25,628 132,569 Great Britain [B] 660 54,114 Other countries 221,028 8,154 70,220 ———— ———— ———— Total 2,916,727 2,312,453 1,361,666 [B] No shipments, or included in "other countries."
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Democratic republics extend the practice of currying favor with the many, and they introduce it into a greater number of classes at once: this is one of the most serious reproaches that can be addressed to them.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

So home to dinner alone, and there I found that my boy had got out of doors, and came in for his hat and band, and so is gone away to his brother; but I do resolve even to let him go away for good and all.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

She come through diphtheria right enough the year before.
— from Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw

Looking at him, Kennon was reminded of a frightened dog, ready either to bite or cower.
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

We can understand how it became possible for “those vast multitudes, which the populous north poured from her frozen loins, to pass the Rhine and the Danube, and come like a deluge on the south, and spread beneath Gibraltar and the Libyan sands;” how it were possible, we say, for them so largely to remodel and invigorate a considerable part of Europe, nay, how they could succeed in overrunning and overturning “the rich but rotten, the mighty but marrowless, the disciplined but diseased, Roman empire; that gigantic and heartless and merciless usurpation of soulless materialism and abject superstition of universal despotism, of systemized and relentless plunder, and of depravity deep as hell.”
— from The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

Keeper Dick Richards easily taught Alice to blow a mouth organ, and to ring a telephone, to take the receiver off its hook and hold it to her ear and listen.
— from The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals: A Book of Personal Observations by William T. (William Temple) Hornaday

It was impossible for the putrid soil of the decaying Roman Empire to become a fruitful abode for Christianity.
— from Women of the Teutonic Nations by Hermann Schoenfeld

But--ah--ah--D.V. it is saved, and--and I need hardly say we--we have every reason to be thankful, even though the future is, or may be--of course----" Here Dr. Ramsay entered the room, and he turned to him.
— from A Sovereign Remedy by Flora Annie Webster Steel

They dined rather earlier than usual, that they might be in time for the opening of the oratorio, which Ellen was anxious to hear.
— from Mystery and Confidence: A Tale. Vol. 2 by Elizabeth Sibthorpe Pinchard

A devourer of men was he,—men were his meat—yea, and a drinker of their very substance was he, for the cloud-breaths of the beloved gods, and souls of the dead, whence descend rains, even these were his drink.
— from Zuñi Folk Tales by Frank Hamilton Cushing

Sprudell nerved himself and started, stepping as gingerly as he could; but in spite of his best efforts his feet came down like pile drivers, disturbing rocks each time he moved.
— from The Man from the Bitter Roots by Caroline Lockhart

We now come to the last thing propounded to be spoken to, which is, they that have hope and exercise it well, shall assuredly at last enjoy that hope that is laid up for them in heaven; that is, they that do regularly exercise the grace of hope shall at last enjoy the object of it, or the thing hoped for.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan