It survives amidst a general "lack of recognised evidence," and only seems to act usefully and healthily and regularly in quarters where it can least easily be [150] distinguished from other more powerful and demonstrable factors of evolution.
— from Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin by W. P. (William Platt) Ball

She is entirely without prejudice; her insight is clear and her judgment seems to be more direct and to have been fortified by the great lessons of recent events.
— from Memoirs of the Duchesse De Dino (Afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan), 1841-1850 by Dino, Dorothée, duchesse de

These systemic nervous exhaustions may, as W. S. Christopher, of Chicago, has shown (in remarks on neuroses already cited), take unexpected local directions, especially involving, in accordance with the general law of reversal, evolution or degeneracy checks on excessive action.
— from Degeneracy: Its Causes, Signs and Results by Eugene S. (Eugene Solomon) Talbot

Sec. 4 Shino ancestor-worship, no doubt, like all ancestor-worship, was developed out of funeral rites, according to that general law of religious evolution traced so fully by Herbert Spencer.
— from Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: Second Series by Lafcadio Hearn

It was not thus nor then that the great lesson of religious equality and liberty for all men—the inevitable result of the Dutch revolt—was to be expounded.
— from History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609) by John Lothrop Motley

But through the good luck of Rose everything had come out all right, for Mary felt that the news of the recovery of the money would take the worry from Mrs. Turner's [245] mind, thus making it easier to regain her health.
— from Six Little Bunkers at Aunt Jo's by Laura Lee Hope

Yet it often happens that, just as, in song or opera, the same melody is used to express joy or grief, love or religious emotion, so approximately the same rhythmic form is employed in the expression of apparently antagonistic emotions.
— from The Principles of Aesthetics by De Witt H. (De Witt Henry) Parker

ʿAzīz Koka, K͟hān Aʿz̤am, son of S͟hamsu-d-dīn and Jījī Angā, rescued by Akbar, 40 –2; accompanies Jahāngīr in pursuit of K͟husrau, 54 ; discovery of his letter to ʿAlī K͟hān, 79 –81; hypocritical character, 138 ; governor of Gujarat, 153 ; sent to Deccan, 183 ; governor of Malwa, 200 ; S͟hādmān, his son, 203 ; letter from, 203 ; begs to be sent against the Rānā, 234 , 256 ; behaves badly, 257 –8; made over to Āṣaf K͟hān (No. iv) to be confined in Gwalior, but to be made comfortable, 261 ; Akbar appears to Jahāngīr in a dream and begs forgiveness for ʿAzīz, 269 ; brought from Gwalior and pardoned, 287 ; gets lakh of rupees, etc., 289 .
— from The Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri: or, Memoirs of Jahangir (Volume 1 of 2) by Emperor of Hindustan Jahangir