A capital of a thousand pounds, for example, employed in a foreign trade of consumption, of which the returns are made regularly once in the year, can keep in constant employment, in the country to which it belongs, a quantity of productive labour, equal to what a thousand pounds can maintain there for a year.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

In the trade, therefore, to which those regulations confine the merchant of Hamburg, his capital can keep in constant employment a much greater quantity of German industry than he possibly could have done in the trade from which he is excluded.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

V. Kalyanarama Iyer & Co. , Esplanade, Madras.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

Knowledge is called empirical when it rests wholly or partly upon experience.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

But a British capital of a thousand pounds, for example, which is returned to Great Britain only once in five years, can keep in constant employment only one-fifth part of the British industry which it could maintain, if the whole was returned once in the year; and, instead of the quantity of industry which a thousand pounds could maintain for a year, can keep in constant employment the quantity only which two hundred pounds can maintain for a year.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

The cook’s name is Andhrimner, and the kettle is called Eldhrimner as is here said: Andhrimner cooks In Eldhrimner Sahrimner. ’Tis the best of flesh.
— from The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

If the returns are made twice or thrice in the year, it can keep in constant employment a quantity of productive labour, equal to what two or three thousand pounds can maintain there for a year.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

So far as all this kind of priestly medicine-mongering, the "guilty" kind, is concerned, every word of criticism is superfluous.
— from The Genealogy of Morals The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I know I could easily keep up with those horses if it were only [129] proper to run behind the carriage,
— from The Girl from Arizona by Nina Rhoades

The introduction of Protestantism, then, was one of the chief causes of the change by which a much greater personal power was transferred to the hands of the sovereign than he had ever before held, and it is no surprise to see the absolutism of emperors and kings, in Christian Europe, date from its coming.
— from The Irish Race in the Past and the Present by Augustus J. Thébaud

This kick is clearly equivalent to the application of an upward force at the end C of the axle or a downward force at the end B, and therefore, as we know, will cause the axle not to turn about E F, but to precess the north end B towards the west about the axis H J.
— from The Gyroscopic Compass: A Non-Mathematical Treatment by T. W. (Thomas Wightman) Chalmers

Thus the one contemporary authority tells the tale of the great alliance which was made on the Wednesday in Easter week: "On the fourth day of the week the aforesaid pontiff with all his nobles both clerkly and knightly went forth to S. Peter's Church and there {151} meeting the king in colloquy earnestly prayed him and with paternal affection admonished him to fulfil entirely that promise which his father of holy memory the dead king Pippin had made, and which he himself with his brother Carloman and all the nobles of the Franks had confirmed to S. Peter and his vicar
— from The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003 by William Holden Hutton

With the exception of being kept in confinement, every mark of attention was shewn to me on board the Alien Ship.
— from Memoirs of the life, exile, and conversations of the Emperor Napoleon. (Vol. IV) by Las Cases, Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné, comte de

Delaying action of this kind is commonly employed in rearguard fighting, when the object to be gained is time rather than position, and the offensive action of the defender is limited to local counter-attacks at favourable or desperate moments.
— from Lectures on Land Warfare; A tactical Manual for the Use of Infantry Officers An Examination of the Principles Which Underlie the Art of Warfare, with Illustrations of the Principles by Examples Taken from Military History, from the Battle of Thermopylae, B.C. 480, to the Battle of the Sambre, November 1-11, 1918 by Anonymous

Onward they pressed, some shooting rapidly, while the swords of others were kept in constant exercise.
— from The Golden Grasshopper: A story of the days of Sir Thomas Gresham by William Henry Giles Kingston

"I know I can empty the gallon canteen by myself."
— from The Forbidden Trail by Honoré Morrow

But she never permitted him to pay her one visit; though it is now fifteen years she has been in his house, where she passes her time in uninterrupted mourning, with a constancy very little known in Christendom, especially in a widow of one and twenty, for she is now but thirty-six.
— from Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M—y W—y M—e Written during Her Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa to Persons of Distinction, Men of Letters, &c. in Different Parts of Europe by Montagu, Mary Wortley, Lady