For he says that the divine power is placed in reason, and in the spirit and mind of universal nature; that the world, with a universal effusion of its spirit, is God; that the superior part of that spirit, which is the mind and reason, is the great principle of nature, containing and preserving the chain of all things; that the divinity is the power of fate, and the necessity of future events.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Hence, undisturbed occupation with himself, his own thoughts and works, is a matter of urgent necessity to such a man; solitude is welcome, leisure is the highest good, and everything else is unnecessary, nay, even burdensome.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer

Some books consulted—"Murray" useless to motorists: proceeds by rail and observes county boundaries—Arthur Young's Six Weeks' Tour dull—Leland's Itinerary a mass of undigested notes— The Paston Letters full of excellence—Start from Abingdon—The six-cylinder Rolls-Royce—Freedom from trouble—Hopes and Nemesis—Abingdon to Thame, a bad cross-country route—Thame to Royston direct—The gate of East Anglia—The "Cave"—Royston's broad hint to James I—To Newmarket—Straight road and abundant game—The mystery of the Hoodie Crow—Wild creatures and motor-cars—Weather Heath—Appropriate name—Value of tree "belts"—Scotch fir hedges—- Elvedon Hall and its game—Best use for such land—Enter Norfolk—Warrens and heaths—Thetford—Its story—Its Mound—Mr. Rye's theory dissipated by the learned—Windmills in East Anglia—Thomas Paine a Thetford man—Euston unvisited—Attleborough—Wymondham's twin towers—Their origin—Religious houses and popular risings—Kett's Rebellion—Curious legend on a house—Stanfield Hall—Its grim tragedy—A monograph quoted—Wholesale murders and a famous trial—Extraordinary cunning of the criminal—To Norwich and the "Maid's Head." IPSWICH PORT
— from Through East Anglia in a Motor Car by James Edmund Vincent

As a matter of urgent necessity, to avert worse things, new negotiations were set on foot between the three powers, with the result that England withdrew her claims in Samoa altogether, America was satisfied with the small island of Tutuila with its fine harbour of Pago-pago, while the two larger islands of Upolu and Savaii were ceded to Germany.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 25 by Robert Louis Stevenson

"Well, we have lost two hours, so we will have to get a move on us now, to make up for lost time.
— from The Forged Note: A Romance of the Darker Races by Oscar Micheaux

That eminent citizen, Judge Gaston, of North Carolina, in giving judgment at a later day, said: “It is a matter of universal notoriety, that free persons, without regard to color, claimed and exercised the [Pg 192] franchise .”
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 13 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

It was felt to be a matter of urgent necessity to place in the hands of the medical profession a record of the new work and new discoveries which the war has produced, and to provide for everyday use a series of brief and handy monographs of a practical nature.
— from Artificial Limbs by Auguste Broca

For a time at least, all must operate upon nearly the same persons.
— from History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II. by Rufus Anderson

Sixthly , in North Carolina, where Mr. Justice Gaston, in delivering the opinion of the Supreme Court of the State in the case of The State v. Manuel , declared that “the Constitution extended the elective franchise to every freeman who had arrived at the age of twenty-one and paid a public tax; and it is a matter of universal notoriety, that, under it, free persons , without regard to color, claimed and exercised the franchise, until it was taken from free men of color a few years since by our amended Constitution.”
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 06 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

The latter was about to touch on a question of great interest, so, notwithstanding his self-command, his voice trembled slightly; but encouraged, or rather pushed on by a look from Rodin, who had become extremely attentive, he said to Gabriel: "Another motive obliges us not to hesitate in releasing you from your vow, my dear son.
— from The Wandering Jew — Volume 05 by Eugène Sue

Often when the apparatus has not been exactly kept in place, there remains between the two fragments a fibro-cartilaginous texture as a means of union; now this texture is the development not only of the cartilaginous portion of the bone, but also of the portion of the tendon of the extensors, which makes part of the organization of this bone.
— from General Anatomy, Applied to Physiology and Medicine, Vol. 2 (of 3) by Xavier Bichat