Satisfied with this answer, and with the known disposition of the Swedish court, Sir Hyde sailed for the Gulf of Finland; but he had not proceeded far before a despatch boat from the Russian ambassador at Copenhagen arrived, bringing intelligence of the death of the Emperor Paul, and that his successor Alexander had accepted the offer made by England to his father of terminating the dispute by a convention: the British admiral was, therefore, required to desist from all further hostilities.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

The belief in the essential identity of the process of alternate generation and of ordinary metamorphosis has been greatly strengthened by Wagner's discovery of the larva or maggot of a fly, namely the Cecidomyia, producing asexually other larvae, and these others, which finally are developed into mature males and females, propagating their kind in the ordinary manner by eggs.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

The print which merely falls in with ordinary opinion (however well founded this opinion may be) earns for itself no credit with the mob.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Thus of two objects, which are both heavy, the one may be either of greater, or less weight than the other.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

That opinion must be entirely owing to the IMAGINATION: which must now be the subject of our enquiry.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Its idea must hang in a manner, upon that of ourselves and the transition from the one to the other must be easy and natural.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

They give the impress of their own mind; but every one already possesses the original of this impression.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

The prospect did not move me to fear; yet when I thought of my beloved Elizabeth, of her tears and endless sorrow, when she should find her lover so barbarously snatched from her, tears, the first I had shed for many months, streamed from my eyes, and I resolved not to fall before my enemy without a bitter struggle.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The huge vase swayed backwards and forwards; it seemed to be uncertain whether or no to topple over on to the head of one of the old men, but eventually determined to go the other way, and came crashing over towards the German poet, who darted out of the way in terror.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I’m so happy,” said Diana, “but it does seem ridiculous to think of me being engaged.”
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

“The obstacle, whatever it may be, my dear mother,” continued Caroline, with the earnest tone and expression of countenance of a person of strong mind, at once feeling and thinking deeply, “the difficulty, whatever it is, must be either such as time will obviate or increase; the obstacle must be either conquerable or unconquerable: if he love me, as I thought he did, if he have the energy of character I think he possesses, he will conquer it, if it can be conquered; if it be unconquerable, what misery, what madness, to suffer my affections to be irrevocably engaged!
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 07 Patronage [part 1] by Maria Edgeworth

Those who are habitually subject to the attacks of Night-Mare ought never to sleep alone, but to have always some person near them and within reach, so as to be immediately awoke by their groans or struggles; and the person to whom this office may be entrusted, should be instructed to rouse the patient as early as possible, that the paroxysm may not have time to gain strength; for the frequent repetition of the paroxysms gives greater strength to the disease, and that in proportion to the length of their duration.
— from A Treatise on the Incubus, or Night-Mare, Disturbed Sleep, Terrific Dreams and Nocturnal Visions by John Augustine Waller

Suppose that an absent person thinks of me, by evoking my personality in his remembrance; he only succeeds in creating a virtual image of me by a free and conscious effort of his own.
— from Legends: Autobiographical Sketches by August Strindberg

Solon deducted something from the pay of soldiers, and employed it for the education of children whose fathers had fallen in battle, in order that others might be encouraged to bravery 1118 .
— from A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 2 (of 2) by Johann Beckmann

The persons having the highest number of votes respectively shall be declared duly elected; but if two or more be equal and highest in vote for the same office, then one of them shall be chosen by joint ballot of both Houses of the General Assembly.
— from School History of North Carolina : from 1584 to the present time by John W. (John Wheeler) Moore

[223] One of the negroes with that shrewdness engendered by slavery, in which cunning is the only protection against injury; and strength and courage count for nothing; suggested that so large a party would attract attention, and the safety of the two officers might be endangered.
— from Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier by John Algernon Owens

It would seem that the audience, the subject, and the orator, must be equally exhausted; for the assembly had listened for twelve nights to the controversy, and he who was about to address them had, according to his strange habit, taken no sustenance the whole day; it being his custom to dine after the House was up, which was very often long after midnight, and this, with the exception of a slender breakfast, rigidly restricted to dry toast, was his only meal in the four-and-twenty hours.
— from Lord George Bentinck: A Political Biography by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

It is a long day since anybody talked of my blue eyes.
— from The Rector of St. Mark's by Mary Jane Holmes

Were I to make this the main thesis of my book, examples of the effect of mental states on bodily functions could be readily multiplied, and illustrations drawn from facts quoted in other connections could be found in a great number of medical works.
— from Radiant Motherhood: A Book for Those Who are Creating the Future by Marie Carmichael Stopes