I confess, therefore, that to posit a soul influenced in some mysterious way by the brain-states and responding to them by conscious affections of its own, seems to me the line of least logical resistance, so far as we yet have attained.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

I am not yet so highly educated as to find no inward response to the sentiment, “Right or wrong, my country.”
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

It appeared to pass through the wood and the southern spurs of the mountain, and consequently it ran towards the west.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

Rome has a more venerable aspect than Athens; and she conducted her affairs, so far as related to the ruin and oppression of the greatest part of the world, with greater wisdom and more uniformity.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

They came in the progress of time to be especially dedicated by the Greeks to the god Hermes, whence the name, and by the Romans to the god Terminus, who presided over landmarks.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

ἐβοήθησα, pr. to run to the aid of those who cry for help; to advance to the assistance of any one, help, aid, succour, Mat. 15.25.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

I believe few of the subjects will think themselves bound to comply with this alteration, unless it have an evident tendency to the public good: But men think themselves still at liberty to return to the antient government.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

The king ordered a fence to be put round the tree, and placed a guard lest people should eat of the fruit and die.
— from Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day

318 It is important to remember that the theory of the Templar connexion with Freemasonry was held by the Continental Freemasons of the eighteenth century, who, living at the time the Order was reconstituted on its present basis, were clearly in a better position to know its origins than we who are separated from that date by a distance of two hundred years.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Brynhild related this in confidence to her foster-father Heimir, and said: "A king named Gunnar has ridden through the flickering flame, and is come to speak with me; but I told him that Sigurd alone might so do, to whom I gave my vow at Hindarfiall, and that he only was the man."
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

To vnfold you the mistery heereof, so it is that the poore pigeon was before in the hands of the Iugler, into whom he had thrust a dramme of Nux vomica , or some other such poyson, which to the nature of the Bird was so extreame a poyson, as after the receit thereof, it could not liue aboue the space of halfe an houre, and being let loose after the medicine ministred, she alwaies resorteth to the top of the next house, which she will the rather doe, if there be any pigeons already sitting there, and after a short space falleth downe, either starke dead, or greatly astonished: but in the meane time, the Iugler vseth words of art, partly to protract time, and partly to gaine credit, and admiration of the beholders.
— from The Art of Iugling or Legerdemaine Wherein is Deciphered All the Conueyances of Legerdemaine and Iugling, How They Are Effected, and Wherin They Chiefly Consist; Cautions to Beware of Cheating at Cardes and Dice, the Detection of the Beggerly Art of Alcumistry, and the Foppery of Foolish Cousoning Charmes, All Tending to Mirth and Recreation, Especially for Those That Desire to Haue the Insight and Priuate Practise Thereof by Samuel Rid

They had no idea of returning to the jacalé of Maurice Gerald.
— from The Headless Horseman: A Strange Tale of Texas by Mayne Reid

As to the second drawback, while the coast-lands in the tropics will always remain comparatively unhealthy, improved sanitation and the destruction of the malarial mosquito have rendered tolerable to Europeans regions formerly notorious for their deadly climate.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

But the Wessagusset men repaid the terribly taxed hospitality and courtesy of the Pilgrims by attempted thefts of corn and insolent demeanor while at Plymouth; then they provoked their heathen neighbors, with whom they competed in bad behavior; and finally their remnant accepted the guidance of Myles Standish to the fishing fleet off the Maine
— from William Bradford of Plymouth by Albert Hale Plumb

One of Dr. Tischendorf s most audacious flourishes is that (p. 49) with reference to the Canon of Muratori, which we are told “enumerates the books of the New Testament which, from the first, were considered canonical and sacred,” and which “was written a little after the age of Pius I, about A.D. 170.”
— from Theological Essays by Charles Bradlaugh

But the chief things that matter to all, does thee not know that a ‘silly Quaker village’ may realise them to the full—more fully because we see them apart from the thousand little things that do not matter?
— from The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Complete by Gilbert Parker

Who else would be spying up and down the steps?" cried Red Ratcliffe, running to the stairhead.
— from Shameless Wayne: A Romance of the last Feud of Wayne and Ratcliffe by Halliwell Sutcliffe

Tying the Albatross to the bank on June 4th, they entered at once with great energy on the task of felling trees, rearing a large log house, clearing a garden spot, in which they at once began the planting of seeds, and getting ready to trade with the natives.
— from The Columbia River: Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce by William Denison Lyman

Jacques Ferrand no sooner recovered his reason than he cursed his imprudence; but he became reassured on reflecting that the duchess could not allude to this adventure without compromising herself.
— from The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 3 of 6 by Eugène Sue