Now it may, in like manner, be objected to the present system, that if virtue and vice be determined by pleasure and pain, these qualities must, in every case, arise from the sensations; and consequently any object, whether animate or inanimate, rational or irrational, might become morally good or evil, provided it can excite a satisfaction or uneasiness.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

English of the oldest period is called either Anglo-Saxon or Old English.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

Without this preparation I cannot expect an unreserved assent even from the most attentive reader.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

But if we entirely quit nature, or in pursuing its combinations, exceed all possible experience, and so enter the realm of mere ideas, we cannot then say that the object is incomprehensible, and that the nature of things proposes to us insoluble problems.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

The physicians attend; the case of the patient is carefully examined; a consultation is held; they are unanimously agreed that the symptoms are critical, but that the case, with proper and timely relief, is so far from being desperate, that it may be made to issue in an improvement of his constitution.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Divination, as practised in civilised Europe at the present day, is chiefly from cards, the tea-cup, and the lines on the palm of the hand.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

In so far as assimilation denotes this sharing of tradition, this intimate [Pg 736] participation in common experiences, assimilation is central in the historical and cultural processes.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

At the end of the text, on the last page of the book, a poem is conspicuous, entitled, ‘Antonius Mota to the Public,’ consisting of four neat distichs, followed by another composition, containing five distichs by Joannes Salandus.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

Then, too, I thought, since I had endured much in this line on Lloyd’s plantation, I could endure as much elsewhere, and especially at Baltimore; for I had something of the feeling about that city which is expressed in the saying, that being “hanged in England, is better than dying a natural death in Ireland.”
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

I had before entertained hopes of getting home, and I had determined when it should be dark to make the attempt; but I was now convinced it was fruitless, and I began to consider that, if possibly I could escape all other animals, I could not those of the human kind; and that, not knowing the way, I must perish in the woods.
— from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself by Olaudah Equiano

This tended to a [Pg 69] closing up of man into separate selfhoods, and each selfhood, in its effort to preserve its corporeal existence and separate character, was guilty of error, and gradually the inlets through which communication with the Universal Spirit was maintained became closed up, and were senses only available, in most men, for the uses of the natural world.
— from William Blake: A Study of His Life and Art Work by Irene Langridge

This is true enough; but for my part I cannot endure a comparison which by a breath of coolness depreciates either.
— from At Home And Abroad; Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe by Margaret Fuller

The Government, in order to better protect its citizens, erected at intervals outposts garrisoned by troops.
— from Cattle-Ranch to College: The True Tales of a Boy's Adventures in the Far West by Russell Doubleday

If I earned this place, I can earn a still better one.
— from The Young Wireless Operator—Afloat Or, How Roy Mercer Won His Spurs in the Merchant Marine by Lewis E. (Lewis Edwin) Theiss

You want to square me!" "Nothing of the kind, Godfrey," was the reply in a lower tone; but at this point I coughed emphatically and moved a chair, and the voices subsided once more into an indistinct murmur.
— from The Vanishing Man A Detective Romance by R. Austin (Richard Austin) Freeman

Does not the now , to which the present is confined, exclude all before and all after , and therefore all succession, without which it is impossible to conceive time?
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 22, October, 1875, to March, 1876 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

1706, Bills of Credit issued by Carolina. 1709, First printing press in Connecticut, established at New London, by Thomas Short. 1711, South Sea Company incorporated.
— from The Legislative Manual, of the State of Colorado Comprising the History of Colorado, Annals of the Legislature, Manual of Customs, Precedents and Forms, Rules of Parliamentary Parliamentary Practice, and the Constitutions of the United States and the History of Colorado, Annals of the Legislature, Manual of Customs, Precedents and Forms, Rules of Parliamentary Practice, and the Constitutions of the United States and the State of Colorado. Also, Chronological Table of American History, Lists and Tables for Reference, Biographies, Etc. by Thomas B. Corbett

And that, too, after having written a fable entitled ‘The Entail,’ in consequence of some one having asked him whether he did not intend [18] to entail Strawberry Hill, and in ridicule of such a proceeding.” Inconsistency, caprice, eccentricity, affectation, are faults which have been freely charged against the character of Horace Walpole.
— from Horace Walpole and His World: Select Passages from His Letters by Horace Walpole

Such tumours attain a large size, and occupy the exact situation of the parotid; on their removal, the space betwixt the angle of the jaw and the mastoid process is completely exposed, and the styloid and pterygoid processes can be distinctly felt.
— from Elements of Surgery by Robert Liston

The economy depends heavily on exports, particularly in consumer electronics and information technology products.
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency