Here you have human beings, unquestionably, but what we were slow in understanding was how these ultra-women, inheriting only from women, had eliminated not only certain masculine characteristics, which of course we did not look for, but so much of what we had always thought essentially feminine.
— from Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

We may take comfort in praising the mixed and perfunctory attachments which cling to us by force of habit and duty, repeating the empty names of creatures that have long ceased to be what we once could love, and assuring ourselves that we have remained constant, without admitting that the world, which is in irreparable flux, has from the first been betraying us.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

But before proceeding further in a sketch of the different kinds of Slang, it may be as well to speak here of the extraordinary number of Cant and Slang terms in use to represent money—from farthings to bank-notes the value of fortunes.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

For vacuum, whether we affirm or deny its existence, signifies space without body; whose very existence no one can deny to be possible, who will not make matter infinite, and take from God a power to annihilate any particle of it.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

It may be useful to exhibit it Syllogistically, but the Syllogism which exhibits it is either nugatory, or contains a premiss literally false.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

It could honestly be said that he had stretched between himself and his assailants a network of electricity no one could clear with impunity.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

One which grows at the place where the sun rises, 186 – 187 Funeral Rites , 39 sq. ; the idea of death, 39 ; recalling the soul, 39 – 40 ; feeding the corpse, 40 ; the soul-tablet, 40 ; signs of mourning, 40 ; exacting nature of ceremonial, 41 ; cemeteries, 41 G Games , 45 – 46 Gardens , 47 , 51 Garuda .
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

In the heat of action, calmly taking off his helmet, he showed his gray hairs and venerable countenance: saluted the soldiers of Procopius by the endearing names of children and companions, and exhorted them no longer to support the desperate cause of a contemptible tyrant; but to follow their old commander, who had so often led them to honor and victory.
— 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

He repaid their homage by magnifying their greatness; and it was boldly asserted that they could bring into the field a hundred thousand horse, with an equal number of camels; that their hand could pour out or restrain the waters of the Nile; and the peace and plenty of Egypt was obtained, even in this world, by the intercession of the patriarch.
— 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

c. 91, with an excellent note of Casaubon.)
— 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

He was the son of Edward Noye, of Carnanton, in Mawgan parish, and grandson of William Noy, or Noye, of Pendrea, in Buryan.
— from Cornish Characters and Strange Events by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

Its sides taper off gradually from its broad base to its slender tip, according to some law of decrement specific to the plant; and any alteration in the relative velocities of longitudinal and transverse growth will merely make the leaf a little broader or narrower, and will effect no other conspicuous alteration in its contour.
— from On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

The thirty-six senators aptly illustrate the principle, that error not only conflicts with truth, but is generally at issue with itself.
— from The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society

If the elements were not constant and recognisable, or if their relations did not suffice to determine the succeeding event, no observation could be transferred with safety from the past to the future.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

" "Well, at all events no one can accuse them of being High Church," says Mrs. Darley, alluding to her pastors and masters for the time being.
— from Molly Bawn by Duchess

Some careful observers, however, who examined fields for me in Gloucestershire and Staffordshire could not detect any difference in the state of the furrows in the upper and lower parts of sloping fields, supposed to have been long in pasture; and they came to the conclusion that the crowns and furrows would last for an almost endless number of centuries.
— from The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms With Observations on Their Habits by Charles Darwin

The slaty rock exhibits no open cleft; and none is found parallel with the direction of the slates.
— from Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 by Alexander von Humboldt

Immediately after the abating of the waters Ian Macdonald and Louis Lambert set to work to build these houses, and you may be sure they were not long about it, for the tyrannical old father-in-law elect not only compelled them to take down the barn on the lawn before the weddings, but also to build houses for their brides.
— from The Red Man's Revenge: A Tale of The Red River Flood by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Indeed I can save one fourth owing to the entire absence of duty on excisable articles in England; not only can I live cheaper, but with much comfort and satisfaction to my wife and family.
— from Guernsey Pictorial Directory and Stranger's Guide Embellished with Numerous Wood-cuts by Bellamy, Thomas, of Guernsey