But if this is the only actual example of such a belief which I can adduce, analogy seems to render it probable that a similar succession to the soul of the slain god has been supposed to take place in other instances, though direct evidence of it is wanting.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

It seemed to refer in part to the boy’s case, but chiefly to other and irrelevant matters—such as paving-stones, electricity, oysters, and something which I took to be ‘absolution’ or ‘agrarianism,’ I could not be certain which; still, these appeared to be simply casual mentions, nothing more; friendly in spirit, without doubt, but lacking the connection or coherence necessary to make them useful.—I judged that my understanding was affected by my feelings, and so laid the letter away till morning.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

Such is not the case with despotic institutions: despotism often promises to make amends for a thousand previous ills; it supports the right, it protects the oppressed, and it maintains public order.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

It does not, however, seem to rise in proportion to it, or so as to compensate it completely.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

In point of agreeableness or disagreeableness, there is little or no difference in the far greater part of the different employments of stock, but a great deal in those of labour; and the ordinary profit of stock, though it rises with the risk, does not always seem to rise in proportion to it.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Consequently, things, as phenomena, determine space; that is to say, they render it possible that, of all the possible predicates of space (size and relation), certain may belong to reality.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

On the 2d of August, I ordered General Sheridan to report in person to Major-General Halleck, chief of staff, at Washington, with a view to his assignment to the command of all the forces against Early.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

"I hear it still; to rest, I pray, to rest."
— from The Death-Wake or Lunacy; a Necromaunt in Three Chimeras by Thomas Tod Stoddart

But probably even if he had read the poem at that time, he would have been too happy, too self-contented, too successful to realise its poignant truth.
— from The Loom of Youth by Alec (Alexander Raban) Waugh

As the hours run on, the visitors grow more and more numerous, and after supper the room is packed to suffocation, and a long line is waiting in the corridor, marshalled and kept in good humour by able lieutenants; while Mr. Crewe is dimly to be perceived through clouds of incense burning in his honour—and incidentally at his expense—with a welcoming smile and an appropriate word for each caller, whose waistcoat pockets, when they emerge, resemble cartridge-belts of cigars.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

To show their relevancy, I propose to state my understanding of the true rule for ascertaining the boundary between Texas and Mexico.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

Was it not better to let the broken heart sink to rest in peace, the weakened mind go back to the land of shadows unconscious of further sorrow?
— from The Heart of a Woman by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

And one is not surprised to read in Plowden that Higgins, originally a pauper, died worth 40,000 l.
— from Secret Service Under Pitt by William J. (William John) Fitz-Patrick

Yet notwithstanding the extent of his engagements, he hastily prepares a long letter replete with advice, and of a nature to excite the student to reach, if possible, the very pinnacle of his profession.
— from The Southern Literary Messenger, Vol. I., No. 2, October, 1834 by Various

Nor can the infant who stares with such concentration at the lighted lamp and who, when the mother moves out of the direct range of the light, strives with all its feeble strength to readjust its position to that entrancing brightness.
— from Froebel as a pioneer in modern psychology by E. R. (Elsie Riach) Murray

1795 In the early part of January, 1795, a sudden thaw rendering it probable the army would be enabled to maintain a more forward position and defend the passage of the Waal, the Inniskilling dragoons were ordered to advance; they repassed the Rhine on the ice on the 8th of January, and joined the forces under Major-General Sir David
— from Historical Record of the Sixth, or Inniskilling Regiment of Dragoons Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1689, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1846 by Richard Cannon

At the very beginning of their evolution, however, the kind of painting which satisfied only æsthetic needs separated itself from that of writing, which serves to render ideas perceptible to the senses.
— from Degeneration by Max Simon Nordau