Notwithstanding his application of the compensation curb to the watch, it was still a subject of inquiry, and by many persons it was thought that the expansion and contraction of the metal, of which the spring is composed, was the source of variation in the equality of its motion under changes of temperature; but the consideration that the change of rate in the clock, with a seconds pendulum, in passing from the winter to the summer temperature, amounted only to about twenty seconds, while that of the watch exceeded six minutes and a half under similar circumstances, led careful observers to infer that some other cause must be assigned for the anomaly, and the loss of elasticity of the balance-spring by heat began to be suspected, as appears by the following passage in the Prize Essay of Daniel Bernoulli, read before the French Academy:—“I must not omit (said this celebrated 369 geometrician) a circumstance which may be prejudicial to balance watches; it is, that experimental philosophers pretend to have remarked that certain changes of elastic force uniformly follow changes of temperature.
— from A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 1 (of 2) by Johann Beckmann

More than this, no pleasure or satisfaction would be such, none would be of any worth, or substance, or value in their eyes, were it not for the thought of higher things, and for the firm belief they have in them.
— from Pepita Ximenez by Juan Valera

6.—The most noble and famous Travels of Marco Polo one of the Nobility of the State of Venice, into the east Parts of the World, as Armenia, Persia, Arabia, Tartary, with many other Kingdoms and Provinces.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Rustichello of Pisa

The mutual action of Jupiter and Saturn occasions variations in the excentricity of both orbits, the greatest excentricity of Jupiter’s orbit corresponding to the least of Saturn’s.
— from On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences by Mary Somerville

Later the general standard of value in the Eastern world became silver, measured by weight.
— from The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The Later Hebrew Histories After the Book of the Law had been revised by Ezra, and the Book of the Prophets had been compiled by Nehemiah, there still remained a body of sacred writings, not Mosaic in their origin and not from the hands of any recognized prophet, but still of value in the eyes of the Jews.
— from Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People by Washington Gladden

It was as if he were boxed up with hundreds of thousands of his countrymen, boxed up with that something in the national character which had always been to him revolting, something which he knew to be extremely natural and yet which seemed to him inexplicable—their intense belief in contracts and vested rights, their complacent sense of virtue in the exaction of those rights.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume II. Indian Summer of a Forsyte In Chancery by John Galsworthy

Do not be like that Lord Russell in Spence's Anecdotes, who only went hunting for the sake of an appetite, and who, the moment he felt any sensation of vitality in the epigastrium, used to turn short round, exclaiming, "I have found it!" and ride home from the finest chase.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

Things which he had been doing or forbearing to do, he could not have told you why, here received their sanction or veto in the experience of a genius.
— from Immortal Youth: A Study in the Will to Create by Lucien Price