I listened to the doctor, and, after my invariable habit, tried to take his measure by my usual classification—materialist, idealist, filthy lucre, gregarious instincts, and so on; but no classification fitted him even approximately; and strange to say, while I simply listened and looked at him, he seemed perfectly clear to me as a person, but as soon as I began trying to classify him he became an exceptionally complex, intricate, and incomprehensible character in spite of all his candour and simplicity.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Of all the immediate effects of pain and pleasure, there is none more remarkable than the WILL; and though properly speaking, it be not comprehended among the passions, yet as the full understanding of its nature and properties, is necessary to the explanation of them, we shall here make it the subject of our enquiry.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

[127] Whatever modifications of this division may afterwards appear to be necessary (cf.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Homo autem iustus isque, quem sentimus virum bonum, nihil cuiquam, quod in se transferat, detrahet.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

And now a few words will be necessary concerning the religious beliefs of the Romans.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

Being now convinced that they earnestly desired peace, we returned hearty thanks to God, who had thus ordered things: indeed it was high time, for we were all in a terrible state of exhaustion, and were sick of a war to which there seemed no end, as the good reader may well imagine.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

And if there be any shadow of argument to support this belief, nothing contributes more to his full conviction than a blaze of poetical figures and images, which have their effect upon the poet himself, as well as upon his readers.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

But Nora Colwyn was anything but insignificant.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

Thirty years ago it was, when I was a young man and had but newly come to the ford.
— from Indian Tales by Rudyard Kipling

The subject of totemism is full of interest both on its religious and social side:— On its religious side it has given rise, or, if this be not conceded, impetus, to that worship of animals which assuredly had its source in the attribution of mysterious power through some spirit within them, making them deity incarnate.
— from Myths and Dreams by Edward Clodd

Palæornis (18 sp.), the Oriental region, Mauritius, Rodriguez, and Seychelle Islands, and a species in Tropical Africa, apparently identical with the Indian P. torquatus , and therefore—considering the very ancient intercourse between the two countries, and the improbability of the species remaining unchanged if originating by natural causes—most likely the progeny of domestic birds introduced from India.
— from The Geographical Distribution of Animals, Volume 2 With a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earth's surface by Alfred Russel Wallace

by N. C. Wyeth and C. F. Underwood.
— from Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe by Sewell Ford

The Récollets were promised protection, but no conditions were accorded to the Jesuits, as it was the admiral's intention to visit their convent, which he believed to contain a quantity of beaver skins.
— from The Makers of Canada: Champlain by N.-E. (Narcisse-Eutrope) Dionne

Finally, however, my better nature conquered, and the dusk before the dawn found me in the woods in front of a dead hickory tree some forty feet high and a couple of rods through—at least that was how its flinty girth impressed me after I had chopped a while.
— from Everyday Adventures by Samuel Scoville

But nobody could have heard him, there was such a noise of the wind and of the waves washing against the wharf.
— from The Sandman: His Sea Stories by William John Hopkins

But not courageous enough to offer to kiss mamma when I went to bed on the night that that (indicating the article ) had appeared in print under my own name.
— from The Title: A Comedy in Three Acts by Arnold Bennett