But, without dwelling upon supposititious cases, there are, in our own day, gross usurpations upon [Pg 167] the liberty of private life actually practised, and still greater ones threatened with some expectation of success, and opinions proposed which assert an unlimited right in the public not only to prohibit by law everything which it thinks wrong, but in order to get at what it thinks wrong, to prohibit any number of things which it admits to be innocent.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

It is a belief which is in no sense irrational, and which may be logically entertained without in the least affecting our scientific habit of mind or influencing our scientific conclusions.
— from The Unseen World, and Other Essays by John Fiske

Having then proposed to myself, in these Propositions, to affirm those Things which relate to the true and effectual Knowledge, which brings Life Eternal with it; therefore I have truly affirmed, that this Knowledge is no otherways attained, and that none have any true Ground to believe they have attained it, who have it not by this Revelation of God’s Spirit.
— from An Apology for the True Christian Divinity Being an explanation and vindication of the principles and doctrines of the people called Quakers by Robert Barclay

The simplest but least effective way is to bind the beam firmly in the middle to the rod with thread or elastic.
— from Toy-Making in School and Home by M. I. R. (Mabel Irene Rutherford) Polkinghorne

It is not possible to determine by laryngoscopic examination what is the natural register of an individual's voice.
— from The Brain and the Voice in Speech and Song by F. W. (Frederick Walker) Mott

Up in the blue even Taubes—those birds of prey—look beautiful, like eagles wheeling in their flight.
— from My War Experiences in Two Continents by S. (Sarah) Macnaughtan

Macready does not even mention poor Forster; the entry in his diary runs thus: "Went to the amateur play at the St. James's Theatre; the play "Hernani," translated by Lord Ellesmere, was in truth an amateur performance.
— from Records of Later Life by Fanny Kemble

He was never entirely dormant, a sleeper on the skins and beech leaves, even when in the shelter of the cave, after the day's adventures.
— from The Story of Ab: A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man by Stanley Waterloo

The junior general had ventured to remonstrate by letter, even when issuing the order indicated, but the senior stood to his prerogative with a tenacity that set the junior's teeth on edge, and started territorial and unbecoming comparisons between the division commander's firmness on the fighting line a decade earlier, and far behind it now.
— from Tonio, Son of the Sierras: A Story of the Apache War by Charles King