Moral unities are created by a point of view, as right and left are, and for that reason are not efficacious; though of course the existences they enclose, like the things lying to the left and to the right, move in unison with the rest of nature.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

The expectation in 1799 was, as the Gazetteer further shows, that this river, and not either the Humber or the Don, would one day be connected with the Holland river by a canal."
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

For which reason it were to be wished, that things rare and not easy to be met withal at home, xix might be kept ready in every great school, that they may be shewed also, as often as any words are to be made of them, to the scholars.
— from The Orbis Pictus by Johann Amos Comenius

1.] be refracted at C by the Plane RS into the Line CN, and if it be required to find the Line CE, into which any other Ray AC shall be refracted; let MC, AD, be the Sines of Incidence of the two Rays, and NG, EF, their Sines of Refraction, and let the equal Motions of the incident Rays be represented by the equal Lines MC and AC, and the Motion MC being considered as parallel to the refracting Plane, let the other Motion AC be distinguished into two Motions AD and DC, one of which AD is parallel, and the other DC perpendicular to the refracting Surface.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

Now, in the same figure, if one draws EAF, which cuts the plane AB at right angles at the point A, since AD is perpendicular to the wave AC, it will be DA which will [Pg 38] mark the ray of incident light, and AN which was perpendicular to BN, the refracted ray: since the rays are nothing else than the straight lines along which the portions of the waves advance.
— from Treatise on Light In which are explained the causes of that which occurs in reflexion, & in refraction and particularly in the strange refraction of Iceland crystal by Christiaan Huygens

All were very merry over this remark, and now each told what she did with herself during a thunder storm.
— from Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Berthold Auerbach

While Alexander's cavalry were fighting with the utmost fury, the Macedonian phalanx and the infantry crossed the river, and now engaged the enemy.
— from Famous Men of Ancient Times by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich

Even the ocean and the rivers are no exception to these changes.
— from History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume II (of 2) Revised Edition by John William Draper

She was some time away from the room, and naturally expected that Mr. Traverse had left the house, as Mrs. Jarvis said nothing about his still being in the room when she came out to speak to her.
— from Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces by Stanford Eveleth

A rail extends across the back a few inches above the seat, and the splat or spindles end in this rail, and never extend to the seat. Illus.
— from Furniture of the Olden Time by Frances Clary Morse

Abject alike in thy regard appear: Nay, even thine own unrivall'd beauties beam No charm to thee—save as their circling blaze Clasps fitly that chaste soul, which still thou hold'st most dear.
— from The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Francesco Petrarca

The riches of this region are not easily to be fancied—the pretty paths—the gardens among plots of vineyard and corn—cottages peeping from the shade—villages and [Pg 181] spires—in never-ending variety.
— from Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Dorothy Wordsworth

They have to report all nuisances, examine tenement-houses and unsafe buildings, look after the public schools, but more especially examine steam-boilers, and license persons qualified to run steam-engines.
— from The Great Riots of New York, 1712 to 1873 by Joel Tyler Headley