The collective representations are exterior to the individual consciousness because they are not derived from the individuals taken in isolation but from their convergence and union (concours)....
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Take of Liquorice two ounces, Maiden-hair five ounces, steep them a natural day in four pounds of warm water, then after gentle boiling, and strong straining, with a pound and a half of fine sugar make it into a Syrup.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

We have brains, you and I; and for such as have brains there are no defeats, but only victories.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

LA-F: Why, she says they are no decorum among ladies.
— from Epicoene; Or, The Silent Woman by Ben Jonson

An old peasant was to have been subjected to a not dangerous but rare operation.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

And the Sceptics persevered in overthrowing all the dogmas of every sect, while they themselves asserted nothing dogmatically; and contented themselves with expressing the opinions of others, without affirming anything themselves, not even that they did affirm nothing; so that even discarded all positive denial; for to say, “We affirm nothing,” was to affirm something.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

When you tell me of the thousandth and ten thousandth part of a grain of sand, I have a distinct idea of these numbers and of their different proportions; but the images, which I form in my mind to represent the things themselves, are nothing different from each other, nor inferior to that image, by which I represent the grain of sand itself, which is supposed so vastly to exceed them.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Seek him where there are no doctors, where the results of disease are unknown, and where death is little thought of.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Then Meges struck the topmost crest of Dolops's bronze helmet with his spear and tore away its plume of horse-hair, so that all newly dyed with scarlet as it was it tumbled down into the dust.
— from The Iliad by Homer

But in time of peace many hundred thousand workmen, if they are not digging ponds, are doing work which is equally foolish and wasteful; though, in peace, as in war, there is important work, which is waiting to be done, and which is neglected.
— from The Acquisitive Society by R. H. (Richard Henry) Tawney

“Come,” said Robinson, “here is a spot that looks likely to a novice; dig and cut it up all you can.”
— from It Is Never Too Late to Mend by Charles Reade

But of this class, if by chance you have discovered any one to be fonder of you—for it may so happen—than of your office, such a man indeed gladly admit upon [Pg 76] your list of friends: but if you fail to perceive that, there is no class of people you must be more on your guard against admitting to intimacy, just because they are acquainted with all the ways of making money, do everything for the sake of it, and have no consideration for the reputation of a man with whom they are not destined to pass their lives.
— from The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order by Marcus Tullius Cicero

They camped out that night seventeen miles from Trafalgar, and next day pushed on as far as where the Stirling Road runs across.
— from The Gully of Bluemansdyke, and Other stories by Arthur Conan Doyle

So far, all has been plain sailing—we have been dealing with purely geometrical ideas in a purely geometrical manner—but we have not, as yet, found any sense of the measure of curvature, in which it can be extended to space, still less to an n -dimensional manifold.
— from An essay on the foundations of geometry by Bertrand Russell

It'd be a fine thing if some one in this place could pray the like of him, for I'm thinking the water from our own blessed well would do rightly if a man knew the way to be saying prayers, and then there'd be no call to be bringing water from that wild place, where, I'm told, there are no decent houses, or fine-looking people at all.
— from The Well of the Saints: A Comedy in Three Acts by J. M. (John Millington) Synge

The logs that are not drawn the first year," adds Michaux, "are attacked by large worms, which form holes about two lines in diameter, in every direction;
— from The Maine Woods The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 03 (of 20) by Henry David Thoreau

“Little maid, some dying is slower than men may tell the hour, and there be graves that are not dug in earth.
— from The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time by Emily Sarah Holt

Captain Stanbury shrugged his shoul [313] ders as he took them, and Nathan did not try to hide his disappointment.
— from In the Days of Washington: A Story of the American Revolution by William Murray Graydon