Thus when we affirm, that God is existent, we simply form the idea of such a being, as he is represented to us; nor is the existence, which we attribute to him, conceived by a particular idea, which we join to the idea of his other qualities, and can again separate and distinguish from them.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

It would be useless, nay, impossible to examine the countless combinations of tone colour, all the varieties of duplication and distribution of chords.
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

If more were detailed, there would in all cases be found a family resemblance to the legends which have been presented, and which lead us now into the enchanted country where Arthur reigns, now wandering among the monkish records of church and abbey, now to the company of the dwarfs and giants of fairyland.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

Stubbornly, as though insisting on its rights, the wind stopped Levin, and tearing the leaves and flowers off the lime trees and stripping the white birch branches into strange unseemly nakedness, it twisted everything on one side—acacias, flowers, burdocks, long grass, and tall tree-tops.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The people in the service of the King and Queen would have waited until nine in the evening without anxiety, because the family sometimes did not return until that hour.
— from Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, Complete Being the Historic Memoirs of Madam Campan, First Lady in Waiting to the Queen by Mme. (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette) Campan

Let us note, incidentally, the existence of a sort of comic spirit in these works which relieves the tragedy of the situations.
— from Contemporary Russian Novelists by Serge Persky

So far hath he wandered from the Sure Pivot of Life that the very question of dinner ariseth not in his mind; he eats but once a day, and leaveth off unsatisfied, nor is there even any fixed hour for this food.
— from A Prince of Dreamers by Flora Annie Webster Steel

It is in direct opposition to the Scripture doctrine of native depravity—a doctrine which has been often and ably treated of and defended by Calvinistic and, Arminian divines—a doctrine which is embodied in a palpable form in every man’s own experience —a doctrine which not only flashes upon the mind of the student in every page of the history of man, but also upon the mind of the unlettered nurse in the earliest emotions of the infant that struggles in her arms.
— from Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. by Wilbur Fisk

At present the railroad companies of this country are under no inducement to establish these mutual insurance societies, or to contribute to them.
— from The American Railway: Its Construction, Development, Management, and Appliances by Thomas Curtis Clarke

One evening the bachelors were more than usually noisy in their end of the dormitory, laughing and talking and shouting to one another.
— from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle

"He don't have to give us no introduction," the elder female exclaimed.
— from Potash & Perlmutter: Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures by Montague Glass

You'd think they'd be warming them up now, if they expected to go out at a moment's notice.
— from Dave Dawson at Casablanca by Robert Sidney Bowen

And the Doctor goes on to give us a vivid picture of conditions in Dawson City when he took hold: "We found practically one vast swamp, which is usually navigable in the early spring, still in almost a primitive condition, or even worse, cesspools and filth of all kinds occupying irregular positions, typhoid fever and scurvy rife in the land.
— from Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police by R. G. (Roderick George) MacBeth

If any childe or children above sixteene yeares old, and of suffitient understanding, shall curse or smite their naturall father or mother, hee or they shall bee put to death ; unless it can be sufficiently testified that the parents have been very unchristianly negligent in the education of such children, or so provoke them by extreme and cruell correction that they have been forced thereunto to preserve themselves from death, maiming.—Exo., xxi., 17.
— from Diary in America, Series One by Frederick Marryat