In the earlier stages of progress, the forces to be assimilated were simple and easy to absorb, but, as the mind of man enlarged its range, it enlarged the field of complexity, and must continue to do so, even into chaos, until the reservoirs of sensuous or supersensuous energies are exhausted, or cease to affect him, or until he succumbs to their excess.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

Men who are equal in rights, in education, in fortune, or, to comprise all in one word, in their social condition, have necessarily wants, habits, and tastes which are hardly dissimilar.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Some of them are quite artistically done and represent on a large scale every important road in England with the places where branch roads leave them.
— from The History of the British Post Office by Joseph Clarence Hemmeon

At all events, I reflected, in ease of need, the windows are not very far to the ground.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 by Various

So, too, every individual reality involves essential relations of identity with itself and distinction from other things, and essential relations of truth and goodness to the Divine Mind and created minds.
— from Ontology, or the Theory of Being by P. (Peter) Coffey

The next important repairs were made in the {40} reign of King John in 1215, by Henry III., Edward I., Edward II., Edward III., Richard II., Edward IV.
— from The History of London by Walter Besant

Dialogue and description are very frequently employed in relating incidents, even when the greater part of the incident is told in the writer's own words.
— from How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers by Willard Grosvenor Bleyer

That there is strong reason to suspect the existence of a most extensive plot, conspiracy, or design, secretly contrived by vast numbers of single ladies in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and now extending its ramifications in every quarter of the land; the object and intent of which plainly appears to be the holding and solemnising of an enormous and unprecedented number of marriages, on the day on which the nuptials of Her said Most Gracious Majesty are performed.
— from Sketches by Boz, Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People by Charles Dickens

Bell-like in quality and ever true, this voice lacked feeling, and while it never failed to awaken unbounded enthusiasm, it rarely, if ever, brought a thrill of deeper emotion.
— from Women of the Romance Countries (Illustrated) Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 6 (of 10) by John R. (John Robert) Effinger

It is reason which enables us to form an evil resolution and to keep it when the provocation to evil is removed; it enables us, for example, to nurse vengeance.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; On Human Nature by Arthur Schopenhauer

One Stukely, a parson, has accounted for it, and I think prettily, by electricity—but that is the fashionable cause, and everything is resolved into electrical appearances, as formerly everything was accounted for by Descartes’s vortices, and Sir Isaac’s gravitation.
— from Horace Walpole and His World: Select Passages from His Letters by Horace Walpole

Camphor is employed in those fire-works chiefly, which are exhibited in rooms; its expense being an objection to its use in large exhibitions.
— from A System of Pyrotechny Comprehending the theory and practice, with the application of chemistry; designed for exhibition and for war. by James Cutbush