A little water made to rotate in a cup explains the formation of the simpler shells; the addition of matter from year to year, arrives at last at the most complex forms; and yet so poor is nature with all her craft, that, from the beginning to the end of the universe, she has but one stuff,—but one stuff with its two ends, to serve up all her dream-like variety.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The psychology of Plato extends no further than the division of the soul into the rational, irascible, and concupiscent elements, which, as far as we know, was first made by him, and has been retained by Aristotle and succeeding ethical writers.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

But the rebellion continues, and, now that the election is over, may not all have a common interest to reunite in a common effort to save our common country?
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

Mitcham station, beside the road, is a curious example of what a railway company can do in its rare moments of economy; for it is an early nineteenth-century villa converted to railway purposes by the process of cutting a hole through the centre.
— from The Brighton Road: The Classic Highway to the South by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper

On it, it was forbidden to eat cooked meat, to put on fresh clothes, to offer sacrifices, to ride in a chariot, etc.
— from New Witnesses for God (Volume 2 of 3) by B. H. (Brigham Henry) Roberts

To begin with, the cavalry of the Guard, both the light and the heavy, had been shattered, and virtually ruined for the time being, by their repeated, ineffectual and costly efforts to carry the plateau during the previous few hours.
— from The Campaign of Waterloo: A Military History Third Edition by John Codman Ropes

It is possible that all legitimate market values, under normal trade conditions, may be liquidized through credit agencies, and the goods in which they are [Pg 203] incorporated be thus rendered immediately and conveniently exchangeable.
— from Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips

The articles on Religions and Sects were not in the original scheme of the work, but have been subsequently added as being necessary to render it a complete ethnological account of the population.
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 1 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

An' worn't that the reason why I left my 'um close to Radcliffe 'Ighway an' comed 'ere?
— from Aylwin by Theodore Watts-Dunton