It has been estimated that, in the complicated life of modern cities, at least one-tenth of the population is not competent to maintain an independent, economic existence, but requires an increasing amount
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Many an orator like "stuttering Jack Curran," or "Orator Mum," as he was once called, has been spurred into eloquence by ridicule and abuse.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

They are not a philosophical race—the English: Bacon represents an ATTACK on the philosophical spirit generally, Hobbes, Hume, and Locke, an abasement, and a depreciation of the idea of a "philosopher" for more than a century.
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The claims of supremacy appeared of a more weighty and substantial kind; yet by the Orientals the Roman bishop had ever been respected as the first of the five patriarchs; nor did they scruple to admit, that his jurisdiction should be exercised agreeably to the holy canons; a vague allowance, which might be defined or eluded by occasional convenience.
— 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

Formal instruction, on the contrary, easily becomes remote and dead—abstract and bookish, to use the ordinary words of depreciation.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

The high Might of the Trinity is our Father, and the deep Wisdom of the Trinity is our Mother, and the great Love of the Trinity is our Lord" God, the blessed Trinity, which is everlasting Being, right as He is endless from without beginning,
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

Such were the mutual obligations established between Rome and Carthage from the earliest times to that of Hannibal.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

The printed text, edited by Roth and Whitney in 1856, gives the recension of the Çaunaka school.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

Sir Percival cared for no exercise but riding, and the Count (except when he was polite enough to be my escort) cared for no exercise at all.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

So one will be rotten before he be ripe, and the other will be rotten without ever being ripe at all.
— from The Way of the World by William Congreve

It is thus employed by Reid and Stewart, and such has been in fact the prevalent use of the term.
— from Mental Philosophy: Including the Intellect, Sensibilities, and Will by Joseph Haven

The remainder is reflected to D, and passes to E, being refracted as it thus passes out into a rarer medium, the air.
— from Science for the School and Family, Part I. Natural Philosophy by Worthington Hooker

I say it is an astonishing thing to think and realize that this profound and mystic doctrine of the eternal sacrifice of Himself, ordained by the Great Spirit for the creation and salvation of the world—a doctrine which has attracted and fascinated many of the great thinkers and nobler minds of Europe, which has also inspired the religious teachings of the Indian sages and to a less philosophical degree the writings of the Christian Saints—should have been seized in its general outline and essence by rude and primitive people before the dawn of history, and embodied in their rites and ceremonials.
— from Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning by Edward Carpenter

By means of his expression, because of it, his emotion becomes realized, and so reaches its fulfillment.
— from The Gate of Appreciation: Studies in the Relation of Art to Life by Carleton Eldredge Noyes

Neither can the moveable property of an ambassador, nor any thing, which is reckoned a personal appendage, be seized for the discharge of a debt, either by process of law, or even by royal authority.
— from The Rights of War and Peace by Hugo Grotius

[Pg 232] of weather, may so affect their constitution as to excite in them pleasurable or uneasy sensations; though man is far from insensible to atmospheric changes, as the feelings of utter listlessness which many persons experience before rain, and the aggravated severity of toothache, headache, and rheumatism abundantly testify.
— from Eccentricities of the Animal Creation. by John Timbs

He had not been brought up to think that romantic passion was a necessary accompaniment of a marriage engagement, but rather as a thing to be got through first; and it had been with a very quiet appreciation that he had given his hand away at his father’s request.
— from An English Squire by Christabel R. (Christabel Rose) Coleridge

To effect this, the electro-magnet is made movable perpendicularly by the aid of a screw, V, between two slides, so that the core, N, may be moved with respect to the median line of the branches, and even be raised above them.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 365, December 30, 1882 by Various

the same season also the election of the same Geffrey was confirmed by pope Clement, who among other things that he wrote to the chapiter of Yorke on his behalfe, in the end he addeth these words: "We do therefore admonish you all, and by the apostolicall bulles command you, that you exhibit both reuerence and honour vnto him as vnto your prelat, that thereby you may appeare commendable both before God and man.
— from Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (06 of 12) Richard the First by Raphael Holinshed

All else is as of old, as indeed Elizabeth's part needed nothing to add to her purity and loveliness, which stands out now in even bolder relief against the beautiful but sensual part of Venus. { 321} GUGLIELMO TELL.
— from The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas by Annesley, Charles, pseud.