It is worthy of remark on this occasion, that though the species of probability here explained be the first in order, and naturally takes place before any entire proof can exist, yet no one, who is arrived at the age of maturity, can any longer be acquainted with it.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Willing, however, to defer venturing forth, as long as possible, and considering, whether she should apply to Montoni, or to the compassion of some other person, her excessive anxiety concerning her aunt, at length, overcame her abhorrence of his presence, and she determined to go to him, and to entreat, that he would suffer her to see Madame Montoni.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

From this unconscious activity of the understanding to the technically highest-developed treatment of a burn, a whole series of progressively higher expressions of intelligence may be interpolated, a series so great as to defy counting.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

she cried, breaking into a sort of pale, hysterical ecstasy.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

As it was, she was actually beginning to think that she should like to make Lucy cry by slapping or pinching her, especially as it might vex Tom, whom it was of no use to slap, even if she dared, because he didn't mind it.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

There was a sort of patient, humorous endurance in his expression which indicated that he would go to the stake if need be, but would keep on looking pleasant until he really had to begin squirming.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

A name casually written on a slip of paper has enabled me to find her out.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

At sight of Pierre her expression showed an irrepressible hatred.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

These flattering promises and marks of attention were, however, at those times when he thought himself in personal danger from a mutinous spirit, which the scarcity of provisions had excited among the natives, who, like true savages, imputed all their public calamities, of whatever kind, to the misconduct of their chief, or when he was apprehensive of an attack from some of the other tribes, who were irritated with him for cutting off the Boston , as it had prevented ships from coming to trade with them, and were constantly alarming him with idle stories of vessels that were preparing to come against him and exterminate both him and his people.
— from The Adventures of John Jewitt Only Survivor of the Crew of the Ship Boston During a Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Indians of Nootka Sound in Vancouver Island by John Rodgers Jewitt

Gold as measure of value and as standard of price has entirely different forms of manifestation and the confusing of the two has resulted in the wildest of theories.
— from A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx

Insects have six legs and six legs only, while spiders and mites and those sort of people have eight, and there are a great many other differences between spiders and true insects which would make it quite a dreadful blunder to put them in the same case in the Museum, or to speak of them in the same breath when you know you are talking to clever people.
— from A Book of Nimble Beasts: Bunny Rabbit, Squirrel, Toad, and "Those Sort of People" by Douglas English

It is to the beginner and would-be collector that Unwin’s “Chats” Series of practical handbooks especially appeal.
— from Among the Head-Hunters of Formosa by Janet B. Montgomery McGovern

That is a well at which are the hazels of wisdom and inspiration that is, the hazels of the science of poetry; and in the same hour their fruit and their blossom & their foliage break forth, and then fall upon the well in the same shower, which raises upon the water a royal surge of purple.' HERE ENDS THE NUTS OF KNOWLEDGE, WRITTEN
— from The Nuts of Knowledge: Lyrical Poems Old and New by George William Russell

Tonight I ask you to pass legislation to prohibit the most egregious abuses of medical research: human cloning in all its forms, creating or implanting embryos for experiments, creating human-animal hybrids, and buying, selling, or patenting human embryos.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

The Session of Parliament has ended, leaving Peel quite as powerful, or more so, than he was at the beginning of it.
— from The Greville Memoirs, Part 2 (of 3), Volume 2 (of 3) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 by Charles Greville

The Homeric picture of life, the critics tell us, displays no actual scene of past human existence, and is not even the creation of one man's fantasy.
— from The World of Homer by Andrew Lang