It is usual with anatomists to join their observations and experiments on human bodies to those on beasts, and from the agreement of these experiments to derive an additional argument for any particular hypothesis.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

You persist in imagining, that, if we grant that divine existence, for which you so earnestly contend, you may safely infer consequences from it, and add something to the experienced order of nature, by arguing from the attributes which you ascribe to your gods.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

Coming to England early in the sixties of the nineteenth century he was induced by a friend to attend the lectures and classes of Dr. Ewald, and after due instruction was baptized in the Jews' Chapel, Palestine Place.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

[pg 012] Here on the monarch's speech Achilles broke, And furious, thus, and interrupting spoke: "Tyrant, I well deserved thy galling chain, To live thy slave, and still to serve in vain, Should I submit to each unjust decree:— Command thy vassals, but command not me.
— from The Iliad by Homer

For his Brother, arguing from the action of his teacher, or of him whose knowledge he esteemeth great, concludes it to bee lawfull in it selfe.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Four-Footed Beasts: and First those about the House.
— from The Orbis Pictus by Johann Amos Comenius

Then to the bower they came, Naked they came to that smooth-swarded bower, And at their feet the crocus brake like fire, 12 Violet, amaracus, and asphodel, Lotos and lilies: and a wind arose, And overhead the wandering ivy and vine, This way and that, in many a wild festoon Ran riot, garlanding the gnarled boughs With bunch and berry and flower thro' and thro'.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

But Smerdyakov rose from the bench, and from that action alone, Ivan knew instantly that he wanted particularly to talk to him.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

5. Take one of the sentiments given below and, following the advice given on pages 118-119 , construct a short speech beginning with the last word in the sentence.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

‘And you would rather be a farmer than a priest?’
— from Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest by George Borrow

I trust, in the mean time, the interests of the nation will be saved from prejudice by a rigid application of that portion of the public funds which might otherwise be applied to different objects to that highest of all our obligations, the payment of the public debt, and an opportunity be afforded for the adoption of some better rule for the operations of the Government in this matter than any which has hitherto been acted upon.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

[101] Thann, through Chancellor Brück, had informed him of what was being said of him there, and had asked what Luther would advise the Hessian Prince, and whether, in order to obviate other cases of polygamy in Hesse, it would be advisable for the authorities to issue an edict against the universal lawfulness of having several wives.
— from Luther, vol. 4 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

These letters only show his journeys backwards and forwards; there are some of them in which he is advised to take care of himself; one, among others, is from the Ministers of Mantua, informing him of the joy of the Duke at his prosperous return from France, and of his having sent 261 a boat to Placentia for him, in order that he may come to him more securely and more conveniently.
— from The True History of the State Prisoner, commonly called the Iron Mask Extracted from Documents in the French Archives by Dover, George Agar Ellis, Baron

Shaded by a few trees, and thrown into relief by a neatly kept square, this solitary church produces a really grandiose effect.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Any mistake that would be a violation of God's law would be a sin, but aside from this, a simple error in judgment is not a sin.
— from Sanctification by J. W. Byers

Only a few weeks before, doubtless with his own possible fate in front of him, he had put these words in the mouth of Fernando in his Stella : "I would be a fool to allow myself to be shackled.
— from The Youth of Goethe by Peter Hume Brown

M. Léon Say, the Minister of Finance, was supposed to be a Free Trader; and M. de Freycinet, who was destined to take part in many subsequent administrations, had been Gambetta's Under-Secretary of State for War, and was looked upon as Gambetta's representative in the Cabinet.
— from Lord Lyons: A Record of British Diplomacy, Vol. 2 of 2 by Newton, Thomas Wodehouse Legh, Baron