After you have brought it to this situation, diminish the grief, after the same manner that you encreased it; by diminishing the probability on that side, and you'll see the passion clear every moment, until it changes insensibly into hope; which again runs, after the same manner, by slow degrees, into joy, as you encrease that part of the composition by the encrease of the probability.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

MADELINE: You aren't really asking Jesus, are you, Emil? ( smiles ) You mightn't like his answer.
— from Plays by Susan Glaspell

He spoke with consummate ability to the jury, and yet exactly as, according to every sound canon, that totally different tribunal ought to be addressed.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

I say no more, but commit this to the happy tiles, in the bosom of that earth, where, I hope, my deliverance will take root, and bring forth such fruit, as may turn to my inexpressible joy, and your eternal reward, both here and hereafter:
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

Some few in that, but numbers err in this, Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss; A fool might once himself alone expose, Now one in verse makes many more in prose. 'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
— from The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

"I have been thinking it over again, Elizabeth," said her uncle, as they drove from the town; "and really, upon serious consideration, I am much more inclined than I was to judge as your eldest sister does of the matter.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

It is certain that there were to be seen moving up the aisles of the old wooden St. James', at York, every Sunday, a striking number of venerable and dignified forms.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

I am confident that all the drums and trumpets of a royal army, beating and sounding together just at your ears, could not equal it.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

[The Middle Classes.] BARRY (John), a young English huntsman, well known in the district whence the Prince of Loudon brought him to employ him at his own home.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Tis true, that judgment against your evil work has not been executed hitherto
— from Selected Sermons of Jonathan Edwards by Jonathan Edwards

The reader will readily call to mind the oft-quoted couplet in Pope's Essay on Criticism: ''Tis with our judgments as our watches: none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.'
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

It is the house on the left, in its own grounds, just as you enter the village.
— from A Boswell of Baghdad; With Diversions by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas

Well, Sir Joseph, at your entreaty—But were not you, my friend, abused, and cuffed, and kicked? [ Putting up his sword .]
— from The Old Bachelor: A Comedy by William Congreve

J. Whishaw, Esq., A.M., F.R.S. John Wrottesley, Esq., A.M., F.R.A.S. Thomas Wyse, Esq., M.P. J. A. Yates, Esq.
— from Secret Societies of the Middle Ages by Thomas Keightley

Come, Ned, it shall all turn out just as you expected.
— from Nature's Serial Story by Edward Payson Roe

You will learn to draw them as they look, and to express their action just as you expressed what you discovered about flowers.
— from Text books of art education, v. 4 of 7. Book IV, Fourth Year by Bonnie E. Snow

In spite of the big crop last fall?" "You could buy all you wanted last week, by the bushel or peck or barrel,—finest, juiciest apples you ever laid your eyes on."
— from Anderson Crow, Detective by George Barr McCutcheon

CHAPTER XII THE VILLAGE 'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
— from Miss Esperance and Mr Wycherly by L. Allen (Lizzie Allen) Harker

JUST AS YOU EXPECTED.
— from The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Editions by Oliver Wendell Holmes