But where an object is so far removed as to have lost the advantage of this relation, why, as it is farther removed, its idea becomes still fainter and more obscure, would, perhaps, require a more particular examination.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

To do this he appeals both to the animal world and to human society, with its subdivisions, religion, art, morality, politics, etc. etc., and in each of these he seeks to demonstrate the activity of the principle which he held to be the essential factor of all existence.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

This scroll is the king's charter, containing gifts of revenew, and many privileges, exemptions, and points of honour, granted to the Father of the Family; and is ever styled and directed, To such do one our well beloved friend and creditor: which is a title proper only to this case.
— from New Atlantis by Francis Bacon

A more recent and more pleasing example is perhaps still remembered in Paris.
— from On Love by Stendhal

Perhaps you will wonder I did not make this discovery long before; but women will suggest a thousand excuses to themselves for the folly of those they like: besides, give me leave to tell you, it requires a most penetrating eye to discern a fool through the disguises of gaiety and good breeding.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

I came over at once to London, called in my own person at Baker Street, threw Mrs. Hudson into violent hysterics, and found that Mycroft had preserved my rooms and my papers exactly as they had always been.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Search each ravine and mountain pass, Each tangled thicket deep in grass.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

However, I ought rather to be thankful that I have so many years remained unmolested, than repine at my present embarrassment; since it proves, at least, that this wretched woman is at length awakened to remorse.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

First, by sending back to the country a part of those materials wrought up and manufactured; in which case, their price is augmented by the wages of the workmen, and the profits of their masters or immediate employers; secondly, by sending to it a part both of the rude and manufactured produce, either of other countries, or of distant parts of the same country, imported into the town; in which case, too, the original price of those goods is augmented by the wages of the carriers or sailors, and by the profits of the merchants who employ them.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Through the greater part of England, notwithstanding the superiority of price, the dairy is not reckoned a more profitable employment of land than the raising of corn, or the fattening of cattle, the two great objects of agriculture.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

["Je voudrais bien qu'il voulut me faire ramener aupres mes pere et mere, et garder leurs brebis et betail, et faire ce que je voudrois faire.
— from The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: from Marathon to Waterloo by Creasy, Edward Shepherd, Sir

Often there is a kind of cumulative force revealing a more powerful emotion of heart and imagination as his thoughts and images press on one another in close and ordered sequence.
— from The Roman Poets of the Republic, 2nd edition by W. Y. (William Young) Sellar

John Sarrasin, the all-accomplished Prior, as the reward of his exertions, received from Philip the abbey of Saint Vaast, the richest and most powerful ecclesiastical establishment in the Netherlands.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84) by John Lothrop Motley

The cause of my father’s departure was not that he loved us less, but the wish to induce his father and brother to come and see that he had succeeded in finding a people who were content to live without money, in freedom from want and envy, with the security of a common affection to make them realize a more perfect existence after the separation of vitality from the body.
— from The Manatitlans or, A record of recent scientific explorations in the Andean La Plata, S. A. by R. Elton Smile

On 29th May, the anniversary of the Restoration, a mounted party entered the village of Rutherglen, about two miles from Glasgow.
— from Bygone Scotland: Historical and Social by David Maxwell

I am not one of the drawing-room young ladies, who receive a modified proposal every Sunday afternoon, and think much more about the sermon afterwards.
— from Clara Vaughan, Volume 2 (of 3) by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

Some of these I am ready to own seem separated by an interval sufficiently wide from the Hexapods , which may be regarded as more peculiarly entitled to the denomination of Insects .
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 3 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby