Before I enter upon the examination of particular taxes, it is necessary to premise the four following maximis with regard to taxes in general.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

While the value of his work undoubtedly lies mainly in its enabling us to envisage one of the greatest of the early steps attained by man in medical knowledge, it also has a very definite intrinsic value of its own.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

Note this figure in "The Lotos Eaters": Music that gentlier on the spirit lies Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

The great protuberance of the earth under the Equator serves to overbalance the impetus of all other masses of earth, and thus to preserve the axis of the earth, so far as we can observe, in its present position.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

To her helpless amazement she found herself in the low chair before the dressing table, with her hair already tumbling about her ears under ten eager, but very gentle fingers.
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

He was a white-bearded and affable elder, used to entertaining strangers.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

Fresh from a war entered upon to emancipate the Cubans from alien domination, he took a step which both Admiral Dewey and General Merritt warned him beforehand would probably mean war—to subjugate, against their will, a people superior to the Cubans.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

It was pleasant to ride occasionally in the warm sun, and feast the eye upon the ever- changing panorama of the forest (beyond and below us), with its many tints, its softened lights and shadows, its billowy undulations sweeping gently down from the mountain to the sea.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

I have said, fellow-citizens, that the income reserved had enabled us to extend our limits; but that extension may possibly pay for itself before we are called on; and, in the mean time, may keep down the accruing interest: in all events, it will replace the advances we shall have made.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 3 (of 16) by United States. Congress

Know this, Gabriel, that my love for you is eternal, it will abide even unto the end of the world!
— from The Youth of the Great Elector by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

Could the crucified One have said unto us, "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end?"
— from Stephen: A Soldier of the Cross by Florence Morse Kingsley

The Prime Minister replied that he would present the new facts before His Majesty, and averred that if they had the same effect upon the Emperor of Corea as they had produced upon the Prime Minister the impediment would be speedily removed.
— from A Chicago Princess by Robert Barr

The Committee made a special examination of the number of men employed under the engineer and superintendent, with a view of considering whether the force actually engaged was necessary to an economical prosecution of the enterprise, intending to suggest any reform that might occur to them as essential; but learning that the engineer would in the course of the year make some reduction in the number of the men as well as of the teams employed upon the [14] work, the Committee deferred taking up the subject until the anticipated reductions should have been made.
— from Report of the Hoosac Tunnel and Troy and Greenfield Railroad, by the Joint Standing Committee of 1866. by Tappan Wentworth

They are his enemies until the end of the world.
— from Black Treasure Sandy Steele Adventures #1 by Robert Leckie

But amid the almost universal declension, there was ever the remnant—Jew and Gentile—who "endured, seeing the invisible," and strengthening their souls in the special tribulation promise " He that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved!
— from The Mark of the Beast by Sidney Watson

Finding their efforts useless, the enemy fell back, {68} and contented themselves with throwing in a terrific storm of musketry; from which we shielded our men as much as possible, by keeping them laid under our defences.
— from The Defence of Lucknow A Diary Recording the Daily Events during the Siege of the European Residency, from 31st May to 25th September, 1857 by T. F. (Thomas Fourness) Wilson

It was the opinion of contemporaries of the emperor, that if he were to reclaim from the gods the sums which he now expended upon them, even Jupiter himself, though he were to hold a general auction in Olympus, would be unable to pay a twelfth of his debts, or, as we should say, one shilling and eightpence in the pound.
— from Ruins of Ancient Cities (Vol. 2 of 2) With General and Particular Accounts of Their Rise, Fall, and Present Condition by Charles Bucke

The quiet and undoubting self-confidence with which he entered upon this enterprise, is one of the most remarkable events in the whole of his extraordinary career.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XXIII.—April, 1852.—Vol. IV. None by Various