The medicine heats the spleen gently, purges melancholy, eases pains in the stomach and spleen, and strengthens digestion.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

"Silent approbation will show that you are the educated public in the stalls.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Not that this is a proper occasion to treat of the manners and customs of our ancestors, or of the discipline and constitution of the city; for I have elsewhere, particularly in the six books I wrote on the Republic, given a sufficiently accurate account of them.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

However, I crept in, and by accident got an empty place in the straw, which I immediately took possession of, without being able to discern the faces of my fellow-travellers in the dark.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

“Like a book where every page is the same, that’s what.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

To this I reply, first, that it is absurd to imagine, that in every particular instance, these sentiments are produced by an original quality and primary constitution.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

No matter how decadent or primitive a population might be, if it was human it was automatically eligible for Brotherhood—a free and equal partner in the society of human worlds.
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

Each passion, in this second campaign, takes the field conscious that it has indomitable enemies and ready to sign a reasonable peace, and even to capitulate before superior forces.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

For to say, as is usually done, that extension is to have partes extra partes, is to say only, that extension is extension.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

Now the essential point in this system of Categories, which distinguishes it from the old rhapsodical collection without any principle, and for which alone it deserves to be considered as philosophy, consists in this: that by means of it the true significance of the pure concepts of the understanding and the condition of their use could be precisely determined.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

“And pray how much have you ever paid in the shape of dividend, sir?”
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 4/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

Did "the Old Pretender," who was then in his expectant period, in this same village of St. Germain, see it too, as Fassmann did? And Louis XIV., he is at Versailles; drooping fast, very dull to his Maintenon.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 05 by Thomas Carlyle

From all this it will be understood that Echegaray presses into the service of pleasure the desperate problems of our natural history, and instead of laughter confronts us with mournful gravity; asks us to stand aghast at inherited injustice, and to doubt with him the wisdom of Providence at sight of such undiminished and idle wickedness in man, and such an accumulation of unmerited suffering.
— from The great Galeoto; Folly or saintliness two plays done from the verse of José Echegaray into English prose by Hannah Lynch by José Echegaray

I would give up my practice and go and cultivate roses and camellias in some corner of your earthly Paradise, in the Saire Valley, where one sees palms among the willow-trees!"
— from A Virgin Heart: A Novel by Remy de Gourmont

Every person in the synagogue waited to hear what he would say.
— from Men Called Him Master by Elwyn A. (Elwyn Allen) Smith

Every person in the slightest degree acquainted with judicial proceedings, knows that an indictment is no evidence of jurisdiction; and that, in criminal cases, the question of jurisdiction will seldom be made but by arrest of judgment after conviction.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 2 (of 16) by United States. Congress

The sun is one of the most venerable as he is the most enduring of India's nature-gods.[52] In no early passage is the sun a malignant god.
— from The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow by Edward Washburn Hopkins

The condensation of volume of the planets will give rise to great elevation of temperature, while their currents of electricity, poured into the sun, will, by their passage through its enormously compressed hydrogen atmosphere, produce intense heat, and this, rapidly communicated to the solar core within, will raise its temperature to that of the sun as we now see it, and permanently maintain it in that state of incandescence.
— from The Source and Mode of Solar Energy Throughout the Universe by Isaac W. (Isaac Winter) Heysinger

But our especial pleasure is to see how cavalierly they pace about, whet their beaks, and furbish their armour, that they may win glory and victory from wheat and oats.
— from Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family by Elizabeth Rundle Charles

This lady has since made her appearance in the part of Fidelio: the effect, particularly in the second act, was truly overwhelming.
— from The Harmonicon. Part the First by Various