Having spoken of this city, the original, and increase, by degrees: the walls, gates, ditch, castles, towers, bridges, the schools, and houses of learning: of the orders and customs, sports, and pastimes: of the honour of citizens, and worthiness of men: and last of all, how the same city is divided into parts and wards: and how the same be bounded: and what monuments of antiquity, or ornaments of building, in every of them, as also in the borough of Southwark: I am next to speak briefly of the suburbs, as well without the gates and walls as without the liberties, and of the monuments in them.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

Truly, the news that seditious pasquinades had been found on the doors of the University not only took away the appetite from many and disturbed the digestion of others, but it even rendered the phlegmatic Chinese uneasy, so that they no longer dared to sit in their shops with one leg drawn up as usual, from fear of losing time in extending it in order to put themselves into flight.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

Our moral ills are the result of prejudice, crime alone excepted, and that depends on ourselves; our bodily ills either put an end to themselves or to us.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The question of the tariff, or of free trade, produced a great manifestation of party feeling in America; the tariff was not only a subject of debate as a matter of opinion, but it exercised a favorable or a prejudicial influence upon several very powerful interests of the States.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

my lord,” said Isaac, “your law permits you not to know how the child of our bosom is entwined with the strings of our heart—O Rebecca!
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

That the greater part of the gold and silver which being forced abroad by those operations of banking, is employed in purchasing foreign goods for home consumption, is, and must be, employed in purchasing those of this second kind, seems not only probable, but almost unavoidable.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

It would be quite correct to say that it originates or begins its effects in the world of sense from itself, although the action productive of these effects does not begin in itself.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

We may see MORE, because our own body is easier to observe than that of other people; but we do not see anything radically unlike what we see of others.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

As regards privacy, all images, of whatever sort, belong with the sensations which only give knowledge of our own bodies, i.e. each is only observable by one observer.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

The sight of a cat, on getting out of bed, is extremely unlucky, and he who sees one will fail in all his undertakings during the day.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

She would say nothing, and boil with rage.—That sort of education might have gone on for a long time had she not on one occasion been imprudent enough to steal the script of a part from the room of an actor.
— from Jean-Christophe Journey's End by Romain Rolland

The operation of burning is effected by mixing the clay with brushwood and vegetable refuse, and allowing it to smoulder in small heaps for some time.
— from Elements of Agricultural Chemistry by Thomas Anderson

Abraham Johnson and I arranged to settle together, and, with Dr. Willis’s letter to Mr. King on our behalf, I embarked with my family on a schooner for the West.
— from The Christiana Riot and the Treason Trials of 1851: An Historical Sketch by W. U. (William Uhler) Hensel

The author of Massachusetts Reports on Trees, &c., to whom I am much indebted for many of the preceding observations, remarks of the young Hemlock, "that in the beginning of summer each twig is terminated with a tuft of yellowish-green, recent leaves, surmounting the darker green of the former year; the effect, as an object of beauty, is equaled by very few flowering shrubs, and far surpasses that produced by any other tree."
— from Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick by John S. Springer

If the gold contain a considerable amount of foreign metals, especially lead and copper, it is sometimes cupelled, like silver, so that the oxidisable metals may be absorbed by the cupel in the form of oxides, but in every case the gold is obtained together with silver, because the latter metal also is not oxidised.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume II by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

At a later time, when the "bishops" were exalted above the other presbyters, there was only one bishop in every church.
— from The Literature and History of New Testament Times by J. Gresham (John Gresham) Machen

That tradition is probably about as authentic as those connected with a number of old bridges in Europe which are said to have been built by Satan.
— from Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume III, Part 2: 1907-1910 by Albert Bigelow Paine

It is impossible to recognise the distinction formerly sought to be established between atomic and molecular compounds, and regarding, for instance, PCl 3 as an atomic compound and PCl 5 as a molecular one, only because it easily splits up into molecules PCl 3 and Cl 2 .
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume I by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev