Less than one-fourth of the country is capable of cultivation, and eighty per cent of this is forest land.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

There is no phaenomenon in nature, but what is compounded and modifyd by so many different circumstances, that in order to arrive at the decisive point, we must carefully separate whatever is superfluous, and enquire by new experiments, if every particular circumstance of the first experiment was essential to it.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

And thus the legislative and executive power come often to be separated.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

It has been thought that we can avoid this difficulty by constituting the supreme organ of government so that any law laid down by it will always be a law to which every person called on to obey it will have consented personally or by his representatives: and that a government so constituted, in which—to adopt Rousseau’s phrase—every one “obeys himself alone,” will completely reconcile freedom and order.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

The Prime Minister's lady had just squeezed herself into her sedan, and her daughter, the charming Ida, had put on her calash and clogs; when the English party came out, the boy yawning drearily, the Major taking great pains in keeping the shawl over Mrs. Osborne's head, and Mr. Sedley looking grand, with a crush opera-hat on one side of his head and his hand in the stomach of a voluminous white waistcoat.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

This edition of Milton's Poetry is a reprint, as careful as Editor and Printers have been able to make it, from the earliest printed copies of the several poems.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

The most irregular and unexpected resolutions of men may frequently be accounted for by those who know every particular circumstance of their character and situation.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

We find the system of keeping the accounts clear, convenient, and well adapted to exhibit from month to month the exact pecuniary condition of the Association, and the restrictions upon drawing money from the treasury well calculated to insure safety in that respect, and we find the management of the Treasurer's accounts and office in all details satisfactory and deserving our commendation.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 12, December, 1889 by Various

Among disadvantages, however, the extremely perishable character of the fully ripe cheese makes provision of an adequate and constant market essential.
— from The Book of Cheese by Charles Thom

And since neither [Pg 234] the executive nor the courts possessed the veto power, the system ensured prompt compliance on the part of the law-making body with the demands of the people as expressed in the results of the legislative election.
— from The Spirit of American Government A Study Of The Constitution: Its Origin, Influence And Relation To Democracy by J. Allen (James Allen) Smith

Almost the entire potato crop of this county in 1916 was handled by middlemen at a profit of more than 100 per cent.
— from Six Thousand Country Churches by Charles Otis Gill

Eighty per cent of the cottontails resting under the rock outcrops were found in severe winter weather.
— from Home Range and Movements of the Eastern Cottontail in Kansas by Donald W. Janes

Both explorers noted the extremely prismatic character of the ice.
— from Glacières; or, Freezing Caverns by Edwin Swift Balch