it was enacted that if any person should bring a certificate from the parish where he was last legally settled, subscribed by the church-wardens and overseers of the poor, and allowed by two justices of the peace, that every other parish should be obliged to receive him; that he should not be removable merely upon account of his being likely to become chargeable, but only upon his becoming actually chargeable; and that then the parish which granted the certificate should be obliged to pay the expense both of his maintenance and of his removal.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

He told Drummond that "the Earl of Pembroke sent him 20 pounds every first day of the new year to buy new books."
— from The Alchemist by Ben Jonson

sa 2 1 short for unsa used at end of phrases. see unsa , 5.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Larger buildings are erected on piles, secure from the inundations; where a single cabin once stood, a neat village is now to be seen; warehouses, stores, and workshops increase the importance of the place.
— from Audubon and His Journals, Volume 2 (of 2) by John James Audubon

This kind of delirium is distinguished from that which attends the fevers above mentioned from its not being accompanied with general debility, but simply with excess of pleasurable sensation; and is therefore in some measure allied to madness or to reverie; it differs from the delirium of dreams, as in this the power of volition is not totally suspended, nor are the senses precluded from external stimulation; there is therefore a degree of consistency, in this kind of delirium, and a degree of attention to external objects, neither of which exist in the delirium of fevers or in dreams.
— from Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life, Vol. I by Erasmus Darwin

This places us at a point antecedent to the existence even of primary substance, and consequently the initial action must be that of the Originating Mind upon Itself, in other words, Self-contemplation.
— from The Creative Process in the Individual by T. (Thomas) Troward

The elements of party strife were active among them all, and it was evident to every man that a great struggle was impending.
— from Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. by Benson John Lossing

Ànsī Then āklèng-ābàng the eldest one pulo— said— “H. K., “H. K., nàng you thàn-bòm-tā (our) instruction from time to time ārju-jē-dèt-lo, would not listen to, āpòtkē therefore nē-mu our youngest sister nàng-tekàng-po; here we are leaving; bòntā nevertheless āduk grief pī-rī give her not, ālàk trouble pī-rī; give her not; ketun to cook toi-rī, send her not, kedàng to serve up toi-rī; send her not; [ 135 ] āphū-thàk-tā moreover
— from The Mikirs by Edward Stack

I have elaborated this example of the panoramic aspect of Old Edinburgh as a widely familiar instance of the method of literal survey with which social and civic studies may so conveniently begin; and I press the value of extending these even to the utmost elaborateness of photographic survey: in my view, indeed, a sociological society has at least as much use for a collection of maps, plans and photographs as of statistics, indeed scarcely less than one of books.
— from Civics: as Applied Sociology by Geddes, Patrick, Sir

The address took me to a more fashionable side of the city, near the lake; a wide expanse of pale, shimmering water, it lay a refreshing horizon for eyes long used to poverty's quarters.
— from The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls by Van Vorst, John, Mrs.

(Beard, American Government and Politics , pages 152-155; Gettell, Introduction to Political Science , chapter xvii; Leacock, Elements of Political Science , part ii, chapter i.) 17.
— from Problems in American Democracy by Thames Williamson

The weather which, in Mr. DUNSTABLE's varied experience of five-and-twenty years, he assures me, has never been so bad, having at length afforded some indications of "breaking" I make the acquaintance, through Mrs. COBBLER, of Mr. WISTERWHISTLE, the Proprietor of the one Bath-chair available for the invalid of Torsington-on-Sea, who, like myself, stands in need of the salubrious air of that health-giving resort, but who is ordered by his medical adviser to secure it with the least possible expenditure of physical strength.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 17, 1891 by Various