Since therefore the idea of power is a new original idea, not to be found in any one instance, and which yet arises from the repetition of several instances, it follows, that the repetition alone has not that effect, but must either discover or produce something new, which is the source of that idea.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Consequently immediate evidence is always much to be preferred to reasoned truth, and the latter is only to be accepted when the former is too remote, and not when it is as near or indeed nearer than the latter.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

The hypothesis, like the rest of my father’s, was plausible enough, and my uncle Toby had but a single word to object to it—in which Trim stood ready to second him——but my father had not drawn his conclusion—— For this reason, continued my father (stating the case over again)—notwithstanding all the world knows, that Mrs. Wadman affects my brother Toby —and my brother Toby contrariwise affects Mrs. Wadman, and no obstacle in nature to forbid the music striking up this very night, yet will I answer for it, that this self-same tune will not be play’d this twelvemonth.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

For this reason, continued my father (stating the case over again)—notwithstanding all the world knows, that Mrs. Wadman affects my brother Toby—and my brother Toby contrariwise affects Mrs. Wadman, and no obstacle in nature to forbid the music striking up this very night, yet will I answer for it, that this self-same tune will not be play'd this twelvemonth.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

The Khivan players on the Dutar (a guitar with two strings), and Koboz (lute) are in high renown throughout all Turkestan; and not only is Nevai, the greatest of the Özbeg poets, familiar to every one, but no ten years elapse without the appearance of lyrists of the second or third rank.
— 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

If a new organism is not thus produced, then in what way is one produced?
— from The Principles of Biology, Volume 1 (of 2) by Herbert Spencer

They appeared not only in Naples, Turin, and Paris, but even in London.
— from The Grand Old Man Or, the Life and Public Services of the Right Honorable William Ewart Gladstone, Four Times Prime Minister of England by Richard B. (Richard Briscoe) Cook

And, naturally, one is not to expect resolution in cases where there exist erosion and ossification of cartilage—where crepitation is discernible.
— from Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by John Victor Lacroix

And now that I have found something fine, and exquisite, and noble, ought I not to follow it?
— from The Quest The authorized translation from the Dutch of De kleine Johannes by Frederik van Eeden

Now, since there are no ornamentations in nature to guide our illuminating art-student, let him be content to copy, first, from those whose works are acceptable for their originality, their effect, and their classical beauty.
— from Elementary Instruction in the Art of Illuminating and Missal Painting on Vellum A Guide to Modern Illuminators by D. (David) Laurent de Lara

A faith which is all trust and no obedience is neither trust nor obedience.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) by Alexander Maclaren

—The death of Charles the First was pressed forward rather through personal hatred and superstition, than out of any notion of its necessity to secure a republican administration.
— from Constitutional History of England, Henry VII to George II. Volume 2 of 3 by Henry Hallam