Mrs. Rouncewell confirms all this, not without personal pride, reserving only the one point of affability.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

France might wish to regain her North American possessions; but the then living generation of colonists had too keen personal recollection of the old contests to acquiesce in any such wishes as to Canada.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

This would be a negative belief, which could not, indeed, produce morality and good sentiments, but still could produce an analogon of these, by operating as a powerful restraint on the outbreak of evil dispositions.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

When the representative creative imagination is made merely literary and mythological, symbols are rendered mere means of directing physical reactions of the organs of speech.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

Thus, among the Greeks, the most refined people that cultivated hero-worship, Hercules was the sun, and the mythologic fable of his destroying with his arrows the many-headed hydra of the Lernaean marshes was but an allegory to denote the dissipation of paludal malaria by the purifying rays of the orb of day.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

‘I do not feel warranted in soliciting my former friend Mr. Copperfield, or my former friend Mr. Thomas Traddles of the Inner Temple, if that gentleman is still existent and forthcoming, to condescend to meet me, and renew (so far as may be) our past relations of the olden time.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

As soon as the drawing began to lose its significance as a direct perceptual reproduction of the object and took on new and broader
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

If at Glenlonely the circular turrets and pointed roofs of the old French château are not to be seen,—what is of greater importance, the amenities and gentle life of the old French château are to be found.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

For, although the notion of happiness is in every case the foundation of practical relation of the objects to the desires, yet it is only a general name for the subjective determining principles, and determines nothing specifically; whereas this is what alone we are concerned with in this practical problem, which cannot be solved at all without such specific determination.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

I think that if we reflect carefully on the common judgments in which the notion of Humility is used, we shall find that the quality commonly praised under this name (which is not always used eulogistically), is not properly regulative of the opinions we form of ourselves—for here as in other opinions we ought to aim at nothing but Truth—but tends to the repression of two different seductive emotions, one entirely self-regarding, the other relating to others and partly taking effect in social behaviour.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Its wealth of genuine humour is a perpetual refutation of the old slander that Scots joke "wi' deeficulty."
— from Shirley by Charlotte Brontë

Preliminary remarks on the offspring of plants crossed by a fresh stock.
— from The Effects of Cross & Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Charles Darwin

When a weak current is passed, copper is deposited on the black-leaded surface and grows gradually in thickness, until at length it can be stripped off, giving a positive replica of the object.
— from Acids, Alkalis and Salts by George Henry Joseph Adlam

“The Deacon,” says Dean Stanley, [Pg 9] “had just reached the words of the Gospel of the day, ‘If the goodman of the house had known what time the thief would appear——,’ when the clash of arms was heard, and the pursuers, regardless of time or place, burst upon the service.
— from Old Church Lore by William Andrews

The wonderful concurrence of these words with her dream, and the self-evident interpretation of it, referring as it did to her past conduct (for one of the principal reasons of the opposition she felt to my joining the Church was, that she considered it disgraced her to have her husband belong to a Church that was so poor, and everywhere spoken against), so impressed itself upon her mind, with other confirmations, that she was baptized, and has remained firm to the Church ever since.
— from Gems for the Young Folks Fourth Book of the Faith-Promoting Series. Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-Day Saints. by Various

When one answers a divine call directing him to some specific form of Christian service, the vow made in response to such call is only the re-affirmation and application to a peculiar relation of the one obligatory vow of baptism.[11] While the divine institution and Word of God in baptism are of prime importance, the office of faith must also be made prominent.
— from Works of Martin Luther, with Introductions and Notes (Volume I) by Martin Luther

Another rule given by writers on the pious recitation of the Office, is to pause at certain places in the psalms to renew attention and elicit affections.
— from The Divine Office A Study of the Roman Breviary by Edward J. Quigley

"I have many pleasant recollections of the old house," said Lindsay.
— from Pencil Sketches; or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Eliza Leslie

It is, indeed, in every respect a central or medial colour, being the contrast, compensatory in the proportion of eleven to five, of the middle primary red , on the one hand, and of the middle tertiary russet , on the other; while, unlike the other secondaries, all its hues, whether tending to blue or yellow, are of the same denomination.
— from Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by George Field

In making the following selection, I have included all those which, on reference to a number of vocabularies, I have found current at any of these places, rejecting, on the other hand, such as individuals, partially acquainted with the native languages, have employed for their own convenience.
— from Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon, or, Trade Language of Oregon by George Gibbs