but this principle sometimes takes place, and produces those inferences we draw from contrary phaenomena: though I am perswaded, that upon examination we shall not find it to be the principle, that most commonly influences the mind in this species of reasoning.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

But in the mercantile system, the interest of the consumer is almost constantly sacrificed to that of the producer; and it seems to consider production, and not consumption, as the ultimate end and object of all industry and commerce.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

As to the benefit to be derived by the railways, while no doubt the building up of the town would specially benefit the main line of railway which passed through the estate, it is also true that the earnings of the people would not be diminished to the usual extent by railway freights and charges.
— from Garden Cities of To-Morrow Being the Second Edition of "To-Morrow: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform" by Howard, Ebenezer, Sir

From a bird’s-eye view, these three burgs, the City, the Town, and the University, each presented to the eye an inextricable skein of eccentrically tangled streets.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

‘It is not anybody who has been here before,’ said Nicholas, ‘for he is tumbling up every stair.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

To us, economies or accommodations would not be allowable unless they were required by the human faculties or necessary for the communication of knowledge to the simple and ignorant.
— from The Republic by Plato

Such a judgment cannot be legitimately interpreted as a judgment concerning facts, nor as referring exclusively to the means to ulterior ends: in particular, the term ‘ought,’ as used in moral judgments, does not merely signify that the person judging feels a specific emotion: 23 - 28 2. nor does it merely signify that the conduct in question is prescribed under penalties: 28 - 31 3.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

At first, in its very act, it will suffuse and mollify the unwelcome experience by another, digesting it, which is welcome; and later, by the broader adjustment which it will bring into the mind, it will help us to elude or confront the evils thus laid clearly before us.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

SYN: Original, fundamental, thoroughgoing, unsparing, extreme, entire, innate, natural, essential, immanent, ingrained, underived, deep-seated.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

In the meantime, what had been the sensations of the unfortunate engineer?
— from Bert Wilson at Panama by J. W. Duffield

The Diesel engine is now used in every submarine that is built, nearly; and for this reason I want you to understand exactly how it is made and how it works.
— from The Boys' Book of Submarines by Virgil D. (Virgil Dewey) Collins

Domestic pets are apt to come to untimely ends, particularly if left to the care of servants, who regard them as a burden and a nuisance, and too often cruelly neglect them.
— from Home Amusements by M. E. W. (Mary Elizabeth Wilson) Sherwood

"Why, I'm a little afraid of startling you Dunscombe's wife must go, he told me, to-morrow morning; and we arranged that she could call in the carriage at six o'clock to take up Ellen."
— from The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner

It was not until the lesson of Hull's surrender had aroused the civil authorities that Captain Chauncey of the navy yard at New York received orders in September, 1812, "to assume command of the naval force on Lakes Erie and Ontario and to use every exertion to obtain control of them this fall."
— from The Fight for a Free Sea: A Chronicle of the War of 1812 The Chronicles of America Series, Volume 17 by Ralph Delahaye Paine

His heart flew impatiently forward into the future, to take up existence with her again.
— from These Twain by Arnold Bennett

Most cultivated and fortunate Englishwomen had a certain knowledge of art and were eager to put all of their uncoined effort at the service of that body of unhappy women, who, without money, had the culture which goes with the use and possession of money.
— from The Development of Embroidery in America by Candace Wheeler

And yet these unfortunate exiles had had the magnanimity to share their store of water with their arch-enemies, {163} the Sunnite Mollahs!
— from Travels in Central Asia Being the Account of a Journey from Teheran Across the Turkoman Desert on the Eastern Shore of the Caspian to Khiva, Bokhara, and Samarcand by Ármin Vámbéry

All or any of these articles he was supposed to supply, upon requisition, to any boy of the “upper election.”
— from The Public School Word-book A conribution to to a historical glossary of words phrases and turns of expression obsolete and in current use peculiar to our great public schools together with some that have been or are modish at the universities by John Stephen Farmer