I might manage to reconcile this to my conscience, which is a truly accommodating one, but I cannot to my apprehension: if the Lambs and Trotters ever come to a reconciliation and compare notes, I am ruined!
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

It is just this new, more highly endowed, consciousness, this abstract reflex of all that belongs to perception in that conception of the reason which has nothing to do with perception, that gives to man that
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

176 6 las cabras , etc.: in most Spanish towns the milkman (or more often milkwoman) drives a flock of she-goats through the streets, milking at the door of each customer the amount required.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

It is equally possible, though not equally common, that a reader left to himself should sink below the poem, as that the poem left to itself should flag beneath the feelings of the reader.—But, in my own instance, I had the additional misfortune of having been gossiped about, as devoted to metaphysics, and worse than all, to a system incomparably nearer to the visionary flights of Plato, and even to the jargon of the Mystics, than to the established tenets of Locke.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Now, the aid that nature has furnished in this case, is that of the Tiputa Pennicornis , a small insect, which entering the tube of the corrolla in quest of honey, descends to the bottom, and rummages about till it becomes quite covered with pollen; but not being able to force its way out again, owing to the downward position of the hairs, which converge to a point like the wires of a mouse-trap, and being somewhat impatient of its confinement it brushes backwards and forwards, trying every corner, till, after repeatedly traversing the stigma, it covers it with pollen sufficient for its impregnation, in consequence of which the flower soon begins to droop, and the hairs to shrink to the sides of the tube, effecting an easy passage for the escape of the insect.”— Rev. P. Keith-System of Physiological Botany .
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

Equipment connected to an RS232 connector must be either a DCE (like a modem or a printer) or a DTE (computer or terminal).
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

And it is equally certain that a resolute moral energy, no matter how inarticulate or unequipped with learning its owner may be, extorts from us a respect we should never pay were we not satisfied that the essential root of human personality lay there.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

I had lent him An Account of Scotland, in 1702, written by a man of various enquiry, an English chaplain to a regiment stationed there.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

Although punishment must be confined to compelling external conformity to a rule of conduct, so far that it can always be avoided by avoiding or doing certain acts as required, with whatever intent or for whatever motive, still the prohibited conduct may not be hurtful unless it is accompanied by a particular state of feeling.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

I say Connecticut , in contradistinction to that of New England generally; for while the Eastern States have many common peculiarities in this way, a nice and practised ear can tell a Rhode-Islander from a Massachusetts man, and a Connecticut man from either.
— from The Chainbearer; Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper

We here leave the Eleatic school, which perpetuates itself in Leucippus and, [278] on the other side, in the Sophists, in such a way that these last extended the Eleatic conceptions to all reality, and gave to it the relation of consciousness; the former, however, as one who later on worked out the Notion in its abstraction, makes a physical application of it, and one which is opposed to consciousness.
— from Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy: Volume 1 (of 3) by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Her passive endurance changes to active revolt only when motive and energy are supplied by her love for her child.
— from Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Robert Browning

(a private letter written by Emperor Charles to a relative...)
— from Current History, Vol. VIII, No. 3, June 1918 A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times by Various

These rites, which are usually simple in character and in essentials common to all religions, are generally accompanied by mystic phrases, the sum of which constitutes Ritual.
— from Indo-China and Its Primitive People by Henry Baudesson

Curr, E. C. The Australian Race.
— from A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 3 of 3 by George Elliott Howard

Much care should be taken in breaking and separating the eggs, and equal care taken as regards their freshness.
— from Recipes Tried and True by Ohio). Ladies' Aid Society First Presbyterian Church (Marion

But, thanks be to God, since Laon has become an enfranchised Commune, that abominable right has been abolished, along with many others.
— from The Pilgrim's Shell; Or, Fergan the Quarryman: A Tale from the Feudal Times by Eugène Sue

I took a quarter of an ounce of these eggs, counted them, and reckoned that the entire roe numbered 3,168,000 eggs.
— from Wild Life Near Home by Dallas Lore Sharp