That propensity, which unites us to the object, or separates us from it, still continues to operate, but in conjunction with the indirect passions, which arise from a double relation of impressions and ideas.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Shall we then say that there is a measurable quality of feeling expressed by the word “pleasure,” which is independent of its relation to volition, and strictly undefinable from its simplicity?—like the quality of feeling expressed by “sweet,” of which also we are conscious in varying degrees of intensity.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

After every action requiring exertion, it is conscience that saves us, for it supplies us with a thousand good excuses, of which we alone are judges; and these reasons, howsoever excellent in producing sleep, would avail us but very little before a tribunal, when we were tried for our lives.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

as she leaned her head against the window-frame, with her hands clasped tighter and tighter, and her foot beating the ground, she was as lonely in her trouble as if she had been the only gril in the civilized world of that day who had come out of her school-life with a soul untrained for inevitable struggles, with no other part of her inherited share in the hard-won treasures of thought which generations of painful toil have laid up for the race of men, than shreds and patches of feeble literature and false history, with much futile information about Saxon and other kings of doubtful example, but unhappily quite without that knowledge of the irreversible laws within and without her, which, governing the habits, becomes morality, and developing the feelings of submission and dependence, becomes religion,–as lonely in her trouble as if every other girl besides herself had been cherished and watched over by elder minds, not forgetful of their own early time, when need was keen and impulse strong.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

The greatest distinctness of the picture did not suffice us: for it seemed to reveal as well as veil something; and while it seemed, with its symbolic
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

It is cognitive only in use, when it is the vehicle of an assurance which may be right or wrong, because it takes something ulterior for its standard.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

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— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

In this we shall undoubtedly find innumerable springs.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

[ scrūd ] unscyld f. innocency , SPs 40 13 .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

They came to me to get a description of the United States uniform for infantry; subscribed and bought the material; procured tailors to cut out the garments, and the ladies made them up.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

I am shaken up, frightened, I suppose, but I'm all right.
— from Six Girls and the Tea Room by Marion Ames Taggart

Says Mr. Jefferson, “What, eastward of New York, might have been the dispositions toward England before the commencement of hostilities, I know not, but before that I never heard a whisper of a disposition to separate from Great Britain, and after that , its possibility was contemplated with affliction by all.” Washington, in 1774, sustained these declarations, and, in the “Fairfax County Resolves” it was complained, that “ malevolent falsehoods ” were propagated by the ministry to prejudice the mind of the king; particularly that there is an intention in the American colonies to set up for independent States ; and Washington expressed a wish that the “dispute might be left to posterity to determine.”
— from History of the settlement of Upper Canada (Ontario,) with special reference to the Bay Quinté by William Canniff

Dick had still unbounded faith in Susy, and although he could not but see that she avoided him, he accounted for it owing to the respect she still felt for the husband she had lost, and to the seriousness of making a second matrimonial venture.
— from Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect by John Hartley

In this letter it is asserted that the author of ‘Harry Lorrequer’ was born in Mulberry Lodge, Philipsburgh Lane, but the communication, while chronicling some undoubted facts, is so full of obvious and absurd blunders that it cannot be considered seriously.
— from Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I by Charles James Lever

But he had some unexpected feeling in saying good-bye to Jock.
— from The Lilac Sunbonnet: A Love Story by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

"My friend, it seems to me we are already in the abyss, and our first and most earnest endeavors should be directed toward saving us from it," said Schill, shrugging his shoulders.
— from Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

I know not how I traversed the celestial spaces, but by some unknown force I soon found that I was [15] approaching a magnificent golden sun, the splendour of which did not, however, dazzle me.
— from Lumen by Camille Flammarion