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James Mill alone, among the earlier nineteenth century economists, definitely excludes labourers' consumptive goods from capital.
— from The Evolution of Modern Capitalism: A Study of Machine Production by J. A. (John Atkinson) Hobson
“Well, den, what dey wants tuh do is jes’ give ’em some razzors ’en say tu ’em: ‘Look-a-yer, yo’ niggahs, dese yer Germans ain’t no real white folks —dat is real qual’ty—dey is jes’ po’ whites ’en no ’count ’en dey hates niggahs.
— from The Brighton Boys at Chateau-Thierry by James R. Driscoll
That is, it condemned her in the eyes of others, but not in my eyes; nothing could ever do that!
— from A Chain of Evidence by Carolyn Wells
Organic sensibility and insensible contractility have all the phenomena of the capillary circulation, of secretion, of absorption, exhalation, nutrition, &c. evidently dependant upon them in a state of health.
— from General Anatomy, Applied to Physiology and Medicine, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Xavier Bichat
"In London, where I have kept house for over twenty years, and have had to endure every conceivable development of servants' extortion, no cook ever demanded a supply of white aprons yet."
— from The Cockaynes in Paris; Or, 'Gone abroad' by Blanchard Jerrold
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