To feel or not to feel a passion is beyond our control, but we can control ourselves.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Physics is but one chapter in the great jugglery which our conceiving faculty is forever playing with { 130} the order of being as it presents itself to our reception.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

It is then put into bags of closely woven aloe fiber, lined with matting made of palm leaves.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Served in Hanover with the 14th in 1805–6 and in the Pa., including battle of Corunna.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

Look at the plainness and the boldness, yet the calm assurance, with which this plan is broached: "Our calculations reach out, especially into the country districts.
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

There is quite as much truth on the side of Protagoras as of Socrates; but the truth of Protagoras is based on common sense and common maxims of morality, while that of Socrates is paradoxical or transcendental, and though full of meaning and insight, hardly intelligible to the rest of mankind.
— from Protagoras by Plato

— N. periodicity, intermittence; beat; oscillation &c. 314; pulse, pulsation; rhythm; alternation, alternateness, alternativeness, alternity[obs3].
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

The higher the human intellect rises in the discovery of these purposes, the more obvious it becomes, that the ultimate purpose is beyond our comprehension.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The big-ticket legal cases here are not over personal injuries but over corporation law, and we have a special court for litigating corporation cases, the Chancery Court.
— from Diamond Dust by K. Kay Shearin

And withall, I most humbly pray all such as are no nigards of their purses in buying of costly and rich apparel, and liberall Contributors in setting forth of games, pastimes, feastings and banquets, (whereof the charge being past, there is no hope of publique profile, or commoditie) that henceforth they will bestowe and employ their liberality (heretofore that way expended) to the furtherance of these so commendable purposed proceedings.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation — Volume 12 America, Part I by Richard Hakluyt

Of these, waltzes are the most, and quadrilles the least, popular, it being of course understood that "round" dances occupy considerably more than half of every programme.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 by Various

But the average cost of the pound of potatoes is but one cent; that of the pound of wheat, four.
— from The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking Adapted to Domestic Use or Study in Classes by Helen Campbell

Pour in bottom one cup hot water, one teaspoon oregano; add can mushrooms, stems and trimmings; one dozen sliced olives, two tablespoons green Spanish sauce, and one chopped {88} pimiento, two cups of tomatoes, one tablespoon butter and tablespoon flour to thicken; salt to taste; cover and cook till done; add cup of cream and cook ten to fifteen minutes longer.
— from California Mexican-Spanish Cook Book: Selected Mexican and Spanish Recipes by Bertha Haffner-Ginger

Salisbury Plain is barren of criticism, but Stonehenge will bear a discussion antiquarian, picturesque, and philosophical.
— from Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners by William Hazlitt

Stem, leaf, and often extraneous matter, are ground to powder, steamed and pressed into bricks of convenient size for transportation, and these are used for money in Mongolia and Siberia.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 34, No. 09, September, 1880 by Various

And many a weary night went by, As in the lonely cave he lay, And many a sun rolled through the sky, And poured its beams on Colonsay; And oft, beneath the silver moon, He heard afar the mermaid sing, And oft, to many a melting tune, The shell-formed lyres of ocean ring; And when the moon went down the sky, Still rose, in dreams, his native plain,
— from Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Volume 3 (of 3) Consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads, Collected in the Southern Counties of Scotland; with a Few of Modern Date, Founded Upon Local Tradition by Walter Scott