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me and that after revolving over

I suppose, there is some question proposed to me, and that after revolving over the impressions of my memory and senses, and carrying my thoughts from them to such objects, as are commonly conjoined with them, I feel a stronger and more forcible conception on the one side, than on the other.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

measure amounts to a reduction of

The tremendous sagacity of this fatalism, which does not always imply merely the courage for death, but which in the most dangerous cases may actually constitute a self-preservative measure, amounts to a reduction of activity in the vital
— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

maintained and the abnormal reserve of

Thus the aloofness which had been found effective in Washington was maintained, and the abnormal reserve of his nature did not allow near him any one who aspired to moral equality or the continuous exercise of influence.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

more alive than a rock or

a machine is a thousand times more alive than a rock or a tree.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

meet again there and recognize one

Souls meet again there and recognize one another."
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

my attention to a range of

We were about leaving this fissure, into which very little light was admitted, when Peters called my attention to a range of singular-looking indentures in the surface of the marl forming the termination of the cul-de-sac .
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

men and the actual race of

Hence the gods are beings which once were men, and the actual race of men will in time become gods.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

much about the actual regulations of

So much about the actual regulations of the Kula transactions.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

moment and then a ray of

Taking a pinch of the substance between my thumb and finger, I rubbed it thoughtfully for a moment, and then a ray of hope broke through the awful gloom that enshrouded me so pitilessly.
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

masks and there are rounded outlines

Sly glances flash through the masks, and there are rounded outlines in the dominoes.
— from Letters of Peregrine Pickle by George P. (George Putnam) Upton

motion amounting to a ratio of

He did not shrink from accepting a difference between the central and lateral motion amounting to a ratio of ten to one—a ratio so large that Professor Forbes at one time regarded the acceptance of it as a simple absurdity.
— from The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, an account of the origin and phenomena of glaciers and an exposition of the physical principles to which they are related by John Tyndall

Mexico and the adjoining region of

DISPERSAL OF THE SEVERAL SPECIES If we assume the region of origin and center of dispersal of a group of animals to be the one in which the greatest numbers of the most specialized species of a given genus are found, then the northern Tableland of Mexico and the adjoining region of the United States in southeastern California and southwestern Nevada is the region of origin and the center of dispersal for the genus Dipodomys .
— from Subspeciation in the Kangaroo Rat, Dipodomys ordii KU. Vol 1 No 23 by Henry W. Setzer

man addressed took a roll of

The man addressed took a roll of manuscript out of his pocket.
— from Dave Dashaway the Young Aviator; Or, In the Clouds for Fame and Fortune by Roy Rockwood

march and the average rate of

This is generally the extent of a day's march, and the average rate of jungle-travelling, allowing for stoppages, is never over 2½ miles an hour, and a six hours' march is as much as the Siamese can do; in these hills the elephants certainly do not do more than 2 miles an hour.
— from Notes of a Journey on the Upper Mekong, Siam by H. Warington (Herbert Warington) Smyth

morning and that a reward of

While in charge of the sick, word was brought by a workman in a shop that there was an exciting report in town that a market wagon brought over a load of nine slaves early that morning, and that a reward of five hundred dollars was offered for information of their whereabouts.
— from A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences of Laura S. Haviland by Laura S. (Laura Smith) Haviland

moonlight and the ancient riches of

What with the moonlight and the ancient riches of his apparel, and a certain lost and straying air, he had the seeming of a phantom from some faint, bewigged, perfumed, and painted past.
— from Lewis Rand by Mary Johnston

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