Consequently, Ampère concludes that the internal electro-currents must compensate one another, and that the magnetism of a body must therefore arise from a superficial current of electricity constantly circulating in a direction perpendicular to the axis of the magnet; so that the reciprocal action of magnets and all the phenomena of electro-magnetism are reduced to the action and reaction of superficial currents of electricity, acting at right angles to their direction.
— from On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences by Mary Somerville

If I may believe you, I possess the power of readily expressing my thoughts, and I could take a forward place in the great field of knowledge; and is not this the result of scientific curiosity, of excessive application, and a love of reading which possessed me from the age of seven till my entry on life?
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

We may read of such cases often enough, and yet when the blow falls in the immediate neighbourhood, one must feel the reflex of the shock.
— from People of the Whirlpool From The Experience Book of a Commuter's Wife by Mabel Osgood Wright

The subsequent editions of 1624, 1628, 1632, and 1638 were all issued during the life of the author, who died in 1639, a succession of years precisely covering the period of Galileo's controversies and trials; and yet its author, vicar of St. Thomas and rector of Segrave, (Church of England as by law established,) who never misses an opportunity ever so slight of giving Catholicity a thrust or a stab, makes 'mere mention' of Galileo's condemnation thus: "These paradoxes of the earth's motion which the Church of Rome hath lately condemned as heretical.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 08, October, 1868, to March, 1869. by Various