Inference and reasoning concerning the operations of nature would, from that moment, be at an end; and the memory and senses remain the only canals, by which the knowledge of any real existence could possibly have access to the mind.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

Raoul.) GRIMBERT, held, in 1819, at Ruffec, Charente, the office of the Royal Couriers.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

When our grief subsided a little, and reflection came to our aid, we found ourselves deserted by the whole world, and in danger of perishing by want; whereupon we made application for the pension, and were put upon the list.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

“What!” says he, “would it, then, be a reputed cowardice to overcome them by giving ground?” urging, at the same time, the authority of Homer, who commends in AEneas the science of flight.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

An absurd consequence, if necessary, proves the original doctrine to be absurd; in the same manner as criminal actions render criminal the original cause, if the connexion between them be necessary and evitable.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

—M.] Note 100 ( return ) [ The two antagonists who express the most intimate knowledge and the strongest conviction of the miracle, and of the fraud, are Raymond des Agiles, and Radulphus Cadomensis, the one attached to the count of Tholouse, the other to the Norman prince.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Everywhere are brick kennels,—tall, black and red chimneys, tongues of flame.
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

The children had fallen asleep, and Rosalie carried them off to bed.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

In this way, various substitutions of equivalents are possible, and reasoning can trace out, without having recourse to specific observations, very remote consequences of any suggested principle.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

In the very early periods, the princes of the Solar line, like the Egyptians and Romans, combined the offices of the priesthood with kingly power, and this whether Brahmanical or Buddhist.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

"An old priest" (he wrote from France in 1862), "the express image of Frederic Lemaitre got up for the part, and very cross with the toothache, told me in a railway carriage the other day, that we had no antiquities in heretical England.
— from The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by John Forster

Around them, their courtiers danced attendance, their court-musicians composed lovely minuets, their court barbers devised more and more elaborate and costly headgear, until from sheer boredom and lack of real jobs, this whole artificial world of Versailles (the great show place which Louis XIV had built far away from his noisy and restless city) talked of nothing but those subjects which were furthest removed from their own lives, just as a man who is starving will talk of nothing except food.
— from The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon

A rumour came to Our Harbour, by the tongue of a fur-trader, who stopped over night at Doctor Luke's hospital, on his way to the South, that there was sickness in the North—some need or other; the fur-trader was not sure what.
— from Billy Topsail, M.D.: A Tale of Adventure With Doctor Luke of the Labrador by Norman Duncan

Poor mother, she used to play Blind-man's-buff in the hall with me, I remember, for we were far away from other people and I had no little playmates ... when she died I thought I should have died too, but God was good to me again—He sent me my own child, my boy, my——" It was just as if all roads converged to one centre, and to escape from it the old lady began to talk of little things, asking simple questions and giving motherly advice, while Helena held down her head and drew the hem of her handkerchief through her fingers.
— from The White Prophet, Volume 1 (of 2) by Caine, Hall, Sir

"About twenty leagues lower than the Pekitanoni, we met another river, called the Ouabouskigon; but before we arrived there, we passed through a most formidable place to the savages, who believe that a manito or devil resides in that place, to deliver such as are so bold as to come near it.
— from James's Account of S. H. Long's Expedition, 1819-1820, part 1 by Thomas Say

I carried out my last experiments in a remote coast town on the north shore of Long Island.
— from The Motor Rangers' Wireless Station by John Henry Goldfrap

A remarkable contribution to our knowledge of China, is M. Biot 's recent translation of the book called Tscheu-li .
— from The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II by Various

In a recent complete transformation of a great people into a state the word organisation for the regulation of magistracies, etc., and even of the whole body politic, has often been fitly used.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

A half-hour later the roisterers, who had meant to carry Constantine Jopp on a rail, carried Terry O'Ryan on their shoulders through the town, against his will.
— from Northern Lights, Volume 4. by Gilbert Parker

One Arsaces is considered to be the founder of the dynasty of the Parthian kings, which dynasty the Greeks and Romans call that of the Arsacidæ.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 (of 4) by Plutarch