The constancy or inconstancy of employment cannot affect the ordinary profits of stock in any particular trade.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

In religion and science the overt purpose of symbols is to represent external truths.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

The compotiers are glass urns and the only pieces of silver used are two tall Sheffield candelabra at night, without shades, the salts and peppers and the necessary spoons and forks.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

The reason of this is that in the world of phenomena, in which alone objects are presented to our minds, there are two main elements—the form of intuition (space and time), which can be cognized and determined completely a priori, and the matter or content—that which is presented in space and time, and which, consequently, contains a something—an existence corresponding to our powers of sensation.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

If a Pagan friend (on the occasion perhaps of sneezing) used the familiar expression of "Jupiter bless you," the Christian was obliged to protest against the divinity of Jupiter.]
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

I reflected, and in truth it appeared to me the only possible one: satisfied I was not, but to please him I endeavoured to appear so—relieved, I certainly did feel; so I answered him with a contented smile.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

It seemed to him that the weaver was very selfish (a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice) to oppose what was undoubtedly for Eppie's welfare; and he felt himself called upon, for her sake, to assert his authority.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

Accordingly, therefore, as the usual market rate of interest varies in any country, we may be assured that the ordinary profits of stock must vary with it, must sink as it sinks, and rise as it rises.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

This is valuable evidence, for no matter how lax the official practice of Scottish armory may have been at one period, the theory of Scottish armory far more nearly approaches the ancient practices and rules of heraldry Page 520 {520} than does the armory of any other country.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

The opening paragraph of Section V [1610] is the natural completion of the above analysis.
— from A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' by Norman Kemp Smith

[Pg 31] Champlain was now thirty-six years of age, having been born about the year 1567 at Brouage, a small seaport town in the old province of Saintonge, southeast of Rochefort and opposite the island of Oléron.
— from Montreal, 1535-1914. Vol. 1. Under the French Régime, 1535-1760 by William H. (William Henry) Atherton

But the organizing power of Satan has its limitations.
— from Systematic Theology (Volume 2 of 3) by Augustus Hopkins Strong

The other part of St. Martin's prophecy also came to pass.
— from The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together with Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales by James (Archaeologist) Grant

[he had on more than one previous occasion seen subjectively a bright blaze of light], though it appeared different; and as soon as I saw it, the design was opened to me, according to his promise, and I was obliged to cry out: Enough, enough, O blessed God!
— from The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James

It has, I think, been shown that the occasional preservation of shells, unrolled and unbroken, is not improbable even during a quite gradual rising of the land; and their preservation, if the movement has been aided by small starts, is quite conformable with what actually takes place during recent earthquakes.
— from Geological Observations on South America by Charles Darwin

In the primitive way, a triangle, or pair of shears, supports the rods, and has an ordinary windlass, by which they may be raised or lowered.
— from The Underground World: A mirror of life below the surface by Thomas Wallace Knox

[Title of poem of seventeen stanzas]: "The Sundowner."
— from Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Edward Ellis Morris