Her intense interest in Fauntleroy must have buried all remembrance of "Frost Fairies," and when, more than three years later, she had acquired a fuller knowledge and use of language, and was told of Jack Frost and his work, the seed so long buried sprang up into new thoughts and fancies.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

He further asserted, that every act of mental volition is united in nature to a certain given motion of the gland.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

Utilitarianism is not, therefore, a fundamental doctrine; it is only a story of sequels, and cannot be made obligatory for all.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

But the will itself by confining and intensifying [25] the attention may arbitrarily give vividness or distinctness to any object whatsoever; and from hence we may deduce the uselessness, if not the absurdity, of certain recent schemes which promise an artificial memory, but which in reality can only produce a confusion and debasement of the fancy.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

But even if we concede to it that the beings of the world exist in this way, such ontological unity is not therefore a unity of purpose , and does not make this in any way comprehensible.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

"I neither put down king, nor set up king," said Sancho; "I only stand up for myself who am my own lord; if your worship promises me to be quiet, and not to offer to whip me now, I'll let you go free and unhindered; if not— Traitor and Dona Sancha's foe,
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

"If they had a seen us, we should have had a hot time, for I could hear by their calls, right along the other side, that they were looking out for us in earnest, and, if a rifle had been fired, we should have had half a dozen canoes down upon us in no time; and, like enough, should have had to leave the boat, and take to the woods."
— from With Wolfe in Canada: The Winning of a Continent by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Such a scene was exhibited by the Hebrew patriarchs, from whom some imagined these Druids descended; but whether or not the Celtic be of this origin we must not decide by any analogous manners or customs, because these are nearly similar, wherever we trace a primitive race—so uniform is nature, till art, infinitely various, conceals nature herself.
— from Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli

He obeyed tractably enough, only turned toward her now and gazed at her with undissimulated intensity; not, though, as if speculating who she might be, rather as if wondering whether she were really there.
— from Mary Wollaston by Henry Kitchell Webster

27—The scale to which a drawing is made should be large enough to show the mechanism without crowding, and more than one sheet may be used, if necessary, to accomplish this end.
— from Patent Laws of the Republic of Hawaii and Rules of Practice in the Patent Office by Hawaii

Christmas would be with us in no time, and Christmas was to be spent in Hedgerow House.
— from Dumps - A Plain Girl by L. T. Meade

This will give us an opportunity of gliding over one of the greatest rivers in the world, which nearly encircles a vast territory hardly known to civilized man, that is just now attracting a great deal of notice on account of the recent gold discoveries made there; a country unsurpassed in natural treasures and resources; a sort of hidden paradise which greedy gold-hunters of former times sought in vain under the {392} gilded name of El Dorado , and which, strange to say, has remained, like the wealth of California, undiscovered until recently.
— from Travels and adventures in South and Central America. First series Life in the Llanos of Venezuela by Ramón Páez

But the word "fear" as here used is not the abject, groveling, contemptible feeling that so many people imagine it to be.
— from Living the Radiant Life: A Personal Narrative by George Wharton James