They are gentle, and confiding and childlike, and in my opinion these are qualities that ennoble them far more than any amount of sinful sagacity could.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

Who, prince of life, first found that reason out Now wisdom called; and by his art, who did That life in tempests tost, and darkness hid, Place in so great a calm, and clear a light:” here are brave ranting words; but a very slight accident put this man’s understanding in a worse condition than that of the meanest shepherd, notwithstanding this instructing god, this divine wisdom.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Because he is rational, man is not the less subject to gravitation and cohesion and chemical affinity.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

"Because he is rational, man is not the less subject to gravitation and cohesion and chemical affinity.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

Abfassung von Berichten writing of reports Abfindung compensation for loss of office Abfindung golden handshake Abfindungssumme sum of acquittance Abfluss drain Abfluss von Gold drain of bullion Abfluß; Wegfluß outflow Abfüllstation filling station Abgabebedingungen; Verkaufsbedingungen terms of sale abgabenfrei; nicht zu versteuern non-accessable abgabepflichtig dutiable Abgabepreis sales price Abgabepreis selling price Abgangszeit departure time abgeglichene Konten balanced accounts abgelaufen out of date abgelaufener Scheck stale cheque abgelaufener; verjährter Scheck stale cheque abgeleitete Nachfrage; abgeleiteter Bedarf derived demand abgeleitete Nachfrage; sekundäre Nachfrage derived demand abgeleitetes Einkommen; sekundäres Einkommen derived income abgenutze Münze worn coin abgenutzte Banknoten worn bank notes abgepackte Ware packaged goods abgeschwächter Leistungsverdienstanstieg reduced incentive abgeschwächter Leistungsverdienstanstieg weak incentive abgesichert durch eine Hypothek secured by a mortgage abgesondert clearly set aside abgezahlt paid-up abhaken tick off Abhakliste tally list abhalten von keep off from abhängig dependent abhängig sein von depend on abhängig von contingent on Abhebungen drawings abhelfen remedy Abhilfemaßnahmen corrective measures Abholfach; Verteilfach pigeon-hole Abholgroßhändler cash-and-carry wholesaler Abholgroßmarkt cash-and-carry supermarket Abitur (US) high school graduation abklären; gegeneinander aufrechnen clear Abkommen convention Abkühlungsperiode cooling-off period Abkürzung abbreviation abladen offload abladen unlade Ablagekorb filing basket Ablagekorb filing tray Ablagesystem filing system Ablauf expiry Ablauf der Frist expiration of a deadline Ablauf der Gültigkeit; Ablauf der Laufzeit expiration of the validity Ablauf der Zeit; Zeitspanne lapse of time Ablauf des Akkreditivs expiration of a letter of credit Ablauf einer Frist expiration of a time limit Ablauf einer Frist lapse of time Ablauf eines Vertrags lapse of a contract Ablauf; Ende eines Vertrags lapse of a treaty Ablaufdiagramm flow chart ablaufen run off Ablaufplan schedule Ablaufschaubild flow chart ablegen; Akte file Ablegung des Eides act of swearing ablehnen; entlassen dismiss ablehnende Antwort negative reply ablehnende Antwort negative response Ablehnung negative answer Ablehnung rejection Ablehnungsschreiben letter of regret Ablösbarkeit redeemableness ablösen redeem Ablösungssumme redemption sum Abnahme decrease Abnahme der Liquidität decrease in liquidity Abnahme der Nachfrage decrease in demand Abnahme der Preise decrease of prices Abnahme des Angebots decrease in supply Abnahme des Preises; Fallen des Preises decline in price Abnahme; Rückgang; Fall decline Abnahmebescheinigung certificate of inspection abnehmende Bevölkerung declining population abnehmende Preise falling prices abnehmender Ertrag diminishing returns abnehmender Nutzen diminishing utility abnehmendes Vertrauen declining confidence Abnehmer; späterer Abnehmer; nachfolgender subpurchaser Abnutzung wear and tear Abnutzung einer Münze abrasion of coin Abnutzungstest wearout test
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

They used his descent upon the Greeks as a pretext, but their real reason was irritation at his general behavior and a determination to anticipate him, so that he should not be able to enslave Greece and conduct a campaign against Italy after the fashion of Pyrrhus.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

He is the only colonial in the British dominions whose goings and comings are chronicled and discussed under all the globe’s meridians, and whose speeches, unclipped, are cabled from the ends of the earth; and he is the only unroyal outsider whose arrival in London can compete for attention with an eclipse.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

Divine power and grace alone can awaken, convince, and reform you.
— from Twenty-four Discourses On Some of the Important and Interesting Truths, Duties, and Institutions, of the Gospel, and the General Excellency of the Christian Religion; Calculated for the People of God of Every Communion, Particularly for the Benefit of Pious Families, and the Instruction of All in the Things Which Concern Their Salvation by Nathan Perkins

There are, as you must well know, innumerable shapes and orders of leaves;—there are some like claws; some like fingers, and some like feet; there are endlessly cleft ones, and endlessly clustered ones, and inscrutable divisions within divisions of the fretted verdure; and wrinkles, and ripples, and stitchings, and hemmings, and pinchings, and gatherings, and crumplings, and clippings, and what not.
— from Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies of Wayside Flowers, While the Air was Yet Pure Among the Alps and in the Scotland and England Which My Father Knew by John Ruskin

A garrison at Cabul and Candahar, and others at the principal posts on the main roads to Hindostan, Ghuznee and Quettah on the west, and Jellalabad and Ali-Musjid on the east, would be amply sufficient.
— from The First Afghan War by Mowbray Morris

‘She is a complete lady, and as good and conscientious a creature as ever existed; but you see, Lady Kenton, her whole life has been spent here, ever since she was sixteen, she has known nothing beyond the schoolroom, and how she is ever to fulfil the duties of a peeress, and the head of a large establishment, I really cannot see.
— from That Stick by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

To the gods, the gods, are crimes a care, And they watch our virtue, well aware That gold and that prosperity drive man Out of his mind—those charioteers who hale Might-without-right behind them: face who can Fortune's reverse which time prepares, nor quail?
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

Did you ever make a note of that distich of John Hay’s— “There be three things which when you think they are coming are going— When you think they are going are coming— A crawfish, a diplomat and a woman?” I could not get it in right, but that will not hinder you from taking in that I am like to go The Old Lion at the Arsenal, Venice.
— from By-gone Tourist Days: Letters of Travel by Laura G. Case Collins

"Imagine some score of huge ginger-beer bottles turned topsy-turvy and the fizz gurgling out, with a glug, glug, glug, and a sort of gigantic fat chuckle at the end,--then more glugging and chuckling, and chuckling and glugging.
— from Tom Burnaby: A Story of Uganda and the Great Congo Forest by Herbert Strang

There goes a carryall (a camel), an entire family on its back, except the husband, who walks by the side.
— from The Mentor: Egypt, the Land of Mystery, Serial No. 42 by Dwight L. (Dwight Lathrop) Elmendorf

Such games as checkers and chess are games more of fixed rules, whose application are open and freer from cunning devices.
— from Gospel Doctrine: Selections from the Sermons and Writings of Joseph F. Smith by Joseph F. (Joseph Fielding) Smith

The Church is dedicated to Saint Collen Ap Gwynnawg, Ap Clydawg, Ap Cowdra, Ap Caradog Freichfras, Ap Lleyr Merim, Ap Einion Yrth, Ap Cunedda Wledig, by Ethni Wyddeles, daughter of Matholwch, Lord of Cwl, in the kingdom of Ireland;
— from Some Account of Llangollen and Its Vicinity Including a Circuit of About Seven Miles by W. T. (Wilfrid Tord) Simpson