But this change of shape does not affect the essential character of the tree-spirit.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Of course, in actual fact, human learning is rendered easier, though psychologically more complex, through language; but at bottom language does not alter the essential character of learning, or of the part played by instinct in promoting learning.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

The particular advantages which each colonizing country derives from the colonies which particularly belong to it, are of two different kinds; first, those common advantages which every empire derives from the provinces subject to its dominion; and, secondly, those peculiar advantages which are supposed to result from provinces of so very peculiar a nature as the European colonies of America.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

The advantages of such colonies to their respective mother countries, consist altogether in those peculiar advantages which are supposed to result from provinces of so very peculiar a nature as the European colonies of America; and the exclusive trade, it is acknowledged, is the sole source of all those peculiar advantages.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Remarkable externally is the north-west tower, with its curious open-work buttresses like those at Bamberg and Laon: remarkable inside are the early sixteenth-century stalls, now misplaced in the south nave aisle; the extravagant complication of the vaulting system in the nave (it is different in almost every bay); the exquisite beauty of the south end of the south transept; and the four or five recumbent effigies, or monuments, of mediæval Bishops that are still allowed on sufferance in this abode of rigid presbyterianism.
— from The Lake of Geneva by Joseph E. (Joseph Ernest) Morris

In the present century, when so many facilities exist for the diffusion of knowledge, and when every new discovery and invention is eagerly welcomed and immediately noised abroad to every country of the globe, it is hard to believe that the inventor of an instrument of the highest scientific value, destined to play an important part in social and commercial life, should have been suffered to live and die in unrecognised obscurity.
— from Philipp Reis: Inventor of the Telephone A Biographical Sketch by Silvanus P. (Silvanus Phillips) Thompson

Now and then either Carpenter or Brackett made a suggestion or a criticism, but both yielded to Sherrington, if he was insistent.
— from Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color by Brander Matthews

Military expenditures - dollar figure: $2.07 billion (1996) Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 1.9% (1996) Transnational Issues Disputes - international: sovereignty over Timor Timur (East Timor province) disputed with Indonesia and not recognized by the UN Illicit drugs: important gateway country for Latin American cocaine entering the European market; transshipment point for hashish from North Africa to Europe; consumer of Southwest Asian heroin ______________________________________________________________________
— from The 1997 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

And the girl said: "On solemn occasions, our fathers make libations; but it is not according to Egyptian customs, or religion, for a female to meddle with any sacred rite, beyond her own private devotions, as thou, O priest, must assuredly know." "Dost thou know the reason, Theckla, that woman is thus excluded, not only from participation in the sacred rites, but from every place that is inconsistent with the idea that she must of necessity be either a slave or a domestic pet, having right to existence only as the appanage of a man upon whom she is dependent as slave, wife, or daughter?" "Nay," she answered; "but I have been so taught, and, therefore, it must be right and proper."
— from Arius the Libyan: A Romance of the Primitive Church by Nathan C. (Nathan Chapman) Kouns

As it will be impossible, without writing a small [Pg 228] book, to name all the English constructors of this period, we must rest content with the mention of the leading pioneers of the new locomotion.
— from The Romance of Modern Invention Containing Interesting Descriptions in Non-technical Language of Wireless Telegraphy, Liquid Air, Modern Artillery, Submarines, Dirigible Torpedoes, Solar Motors, Airships, &c. &c. by Archibald Williams

Military expenditures-percent of GDP: 1.9% (1996) @Portugal:Transnational Issues Disputes-international: sovereignty over Timor Timur (East Timor province) disputed with Indonesia and not recognized by the UN Illicit drugs: important gateway country for Latin American cocaine entering the European market; transshipment point for hashish from North Africa to Europe; consumer of Southwest Asian heroin ______________________________________________________________________
— from The 1998 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

And now, amidst the enthusiastic crowd of their fellow townsmen, let us for the present take our leave of the Motor Rangers.
— from The Motor Rangers' Wireless Station by John Henry Goldfrap