The particles are supposed by him to be in a perpetual process of circulation caused by inequality.
— from Timaeus by Plato

"When last I was here, the national schoolmaster used to accompany his children by a primitive performance of common chords.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

The Progressive party only can change the tariff as it must be changed.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

As natural selection acts only by the accumulation of slight modifications of structure or instinct, each profitable to the individual under its conditions of life, it may reasonably be asked, how a long and graduated succession of modified architectural instincts, all tending towards the present perfect plan of construction, could have profited the progenitors of the hive-bee?
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

It appears upon examination to be nothing more than a polished piece of cannel coal; but this is what Butler means when he says, ‘Kelly did all his feats upon
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

This makes planning more definite, and those parts of the plans that do not require psychological or political prescription of content can be written in standard military form.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

The expelling power presumes, of course, coincidently, the reinstating power.
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

prescription, custom, use, usage, immemorial usage, practice; prevalence, observance; conventionalism, conventionality; mode, fashion, vogue; etiquette &c. (gentility) 852; order of the day, cry; conformity &c. 82; consuetude,.dustoor[obs3].
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

, the royal army entered into the poorer part of Champagne, crossed the Aube near Arcis, and took up its quarters at Lettrée, twelve and a half miles from Châlons.
— from The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 by Anatole France

Professor Pitkin of Columbia criticizes Wells's time-machine from the metaphysical standpoint in "Time and Pure Activity" ( Journal Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods , Vol.
— from Six Major Prophets by Edwin E. (Edwin Emery) Slosson

These Indians, on being distributed over the colonies, did not coalesce with the rest of the inhabitants, but returned to the depths of barbarism or, as in the present province of Corrientes, constituted the mass of the population, an element indifferent to national interests just as the old missionaries had been to those of the crown and sensible only to the recollection of their ancient and traditional life, that is to say, to their own local affairs.
— from The Social Evolution of the Argentine Republic by Ernesto Quesada

It is a perfect picture of Christ coming down to this world to seek and save the lost.
— from To The Work! To The Work! Exhortations to Christians by Dwight Lyman Moody

But since, thus seated in the early wilderness, we permit ourselves the indulgence of childlike guess, may it not be possible, apart from the doubtful question whether a man can communicate to an inanimate material substance a power to act upon the mind or imagination of another man—may it not, I say, be possible that such a substance may contain in itself such a virtue or property potent over certain constitutions, though not over all.
— from A Strange Story — Volume 07 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Particular points or characters can be more brilliantly lighted than others by placing at the side of the stage a strong light within a large box, open at one side, and lined with bright reflectors.
— from Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants by James H. Head

If Balak would give me his House full of Silver and Gold, I cannot go beyond the Word of the Lord my God : Where tho’ he is call’d a false Prophet by some, he evidently owns God, and assumes a Property in him, as other Prophets did; my God , and I cannot go beyond his Orders; but that which gives me a better Opinion of Balaam than all this is, his plain Prophesy of Christ, Chap.
— from The History of the Devil, As Well Ancient as Modern: In Two Parts by Daniel Defoe

For instance, when we take a piece of paraffin paper off candy, chocolate, chewing-gum or other articles, we scarcely realize that it owes its introduction to Mr. Edison.
— from The boys' life of Edison by Wm. H. (William Henry) Meadowcroft

Conflagrations may, and do, occasionally diminish the number of cotton-mills, and lighten the warehoused accumulation of cottons, or other inert matter; but no lucky plague, pestilence, or cholera, comes to thin the crowded phalanx, and rid this empire of some portion of the interminable brood of mongers of all shapes and sizes.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 by Various

This arrangement having been carried with speedy effect, I returned to my own chamber after a close scrutiny of Mrs. Clayton's condition, and employed myself at, once in running my penknife around the door concealed by my bed-head, and thus loosening the paper, pasted on cotton cloth, that covered it, from that of the wall, with which it was connected so intimately as to make the whole surface within the chamber seem to form one partition.
— from Sea and Shore A Sequel to "Miriam's Memoirs" by Catherine A. (Catherine Ann) Warfield