So then, that part of intercourse which could be from other nations to sail to us, you see how it hath long since ceased; except it were by some rare accident, as this of yours.
— from New Atlantis by Francis Bacon

Popular science talks of 'forces,' 'attractions' or 'affinities' as binding the molecules; but clear science, though she may use such words to abbreviate discourse, has no use for the conceptions, and is satisfied when she can express in simple 'laws' the bare space-relations of the molecules as functions of each other and of time.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

When learning is a phase of active undertakings which involve mutual exchange, social control enters into the very process of learning.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

No such conditions existed in any war between the accession of Louis XIV.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

If she cannot entreat, I can compel.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Note 61 ( return ) [ Ex virginibus autem quae speciosae sunt captae, et in Perside, ubi faeminarum pulchritudo excellit, nec contrectare aliquam votuit nec videre.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The sauces to go with it were unusually varied and delicate—” “Permit me, your Excellency, it seems to me you are not so careful either in the selection of reading matter,” interrupted the first Official, who secured the Gazette again and started to read: “One of the oldest inhabitants of Viatka has discovered a new and highly original recipe for fish soup; A live codfish ( lota vulgaris ) is taken and beaten with a rod until its liver swells up with anger...” The Officials’ heads drooped.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I long for the 15th of this month, for then I shall have the right to insist upon your resting, and I shall certainly exercise it.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

On King's river, individual and simple coöperative effort is sufficient to bring water enough upon the plains to irrigate thousands of acres, while in the case of the Tuolumne river it is absolutely necessary to have associated capital in large amount—an entirely different principle of organization from that which was originally applied on King's river and the Kern and other rivers in the southern part of the great central valley.
— from The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. I., No. 4, October, 1889 by Various

She kept on complaining at the slightest change either in herself, in others, about the arrangements of the house, or about the weather.
— from Nervous Ills, Their Cause and Cure by Boris Sidis

National holiday: Europe Day 9 May (1950); note - a Union-wide holiday, the day that Robert SCHUMAN proposed the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community to achieve an organized Europe Constitution: none note: based on a series of treaties: the Treaty of Paris, which set up the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) in 1951; the Treaties of Rome, which set up the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) in 1957; the Single European Act in 1986; the Treaty on European Union (Maastricht) in 1992; the Treaty of Amsterdam in 1997; and the Treaty of Nice in 2003; note - a new draft Constitutional Treaty, signed on 29 October 2004 in Rome, gave member states two years for ratification either by parliamentary vote or national referendum before it was scheduled to take effect on 1 November 2006; defeat in French and Dutch referenda in May-June 2005 dealt a severe setback to the ratification process; in June 2007, the European Council agreed on a clear and concise mandate for an Intergovernmental Conference to form a political agreement and put it into legal form; this agreement, known as the Reform Treaty, would have served as a constitution and was presented to the European Council in October 2007 for individual country ratification; it was rejected by Irish voters in June 2008, again stalling the ratification process; the Reform Treaty, more recently known as the Treaty of Lisbon, was again circulated for ratification, and by November 2009 was approved by all 27 countries; it is scheduled to come into effect on 1 December 2009 Legal system: comparable to the legal systems of member states; first supranational law system Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal Executive branch: chief of union: President of the European Commission Jose Manuel DURAO BARROSO (since 22 November 2004) cabinet: European Commission (composed of 27 members, one from each member country; each commissioner responsible for one or more policy areas)
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Another asylum, that of the Incurables, loses, on an income of 12,062 francs, 7457 francs.—Eure, by Masson Saint-Amand, year XIII: "14 asylums and 3 small charity establishments in the department, with about 100,000 francs income in 1789, have lost at least 60,000 francs of it.—Vosges, by Desgouttes, year X: "10 asylums in the department.
— from The Modern Regime, Volume 1 by Hippolyte Taine

Mrs. Crawford had come to Silver City earlier in the day to do some shopping.
— from The Boy Scouts of the Air in Indian Land by Gordon (Adventure story writer) Stuart

Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE _________________________________________________________________ Hexagonal Group see Central European Initiative (CEI) _________________________________________________________________ high-income countries another term for the industrialized countries with high per capita GDPs; see developed countries (DCs) _________________________________________________________________
— from The 1998 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Still, curiously enough, it was impossible for those on board the launch to read the ship's name, since the word " Andromeda ," twice embossed on the sharp cut-water, was hidden by the jutting rocks on both sides of the cleft.
— from The Stowaway Girl by Louis Tracy

We speak commonly enough in casual conversation of "a sardonic smile," but the idea conveyed is no more than that of a forced and heartless grin.
— from Talks on the study of literature. by Arlo Bates

Yet when she stood in the church by the side of the open coffin she gazed long at the gentle face of the quiet sufferer, charming even in death, who on her bright couch seemed dreaming in a light slumber.
— from In the Fire of the Forge: A Romance of Old Nuremberg — Volume 05 by Georg Ebers