For this, indeed, is the cause why knowledge is free from falsehood, because of necessity each thing must correspond exactly with the knowledge which grasps its nature.
— from The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

[1778], we can yet expect success; but the only way to attain it is to attack vigorously the squadron, which in consequence of our superiority cannot hold out, despite their land works, which will become of no effect if we lay them on board, or anchor upon their buoys .
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

The barons, or nobles, equally the enemies of the sovereign and the oppressors of the common people, were dreaded and detested by both; till mutual danger and mutual interest effected a union between them fatal to the power of the aristocracy.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

This hour thus spent, and digestion finished, he did purge his body of natural excrements, then betook himself to his principal study for three hours together, or more, as well to repeat his matutinal lectures as to proceed in the book wherein he was, as also to write handsomely, to draw and form the antique and Roman letters.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

That will be of no effect; that Magistrate is a very good man.
— from Nil Darpan; or, The Indigo Planting Mirror, A Drama. Translated from the Bengali by a Native. by Dinabandhu Mitra

THE REBOUND OF THE 24TH JUNE, 1848, ON THE 2D DECEMBER, 1851 On Sunday, 26th June, 1848, that four days' combat, that gigantic combat so formidable and so heroic on both sides, still continued, but the insurrection had been overcome nearly everywhere, and was restricted to the Faubourg St. Antoine.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

"That body is a matrix of the thirty-five ideas required by God as the basic or causal thought forces from which He later formed the subtle astral body of nineteen elements and the gross physical body of sixteen elements.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

The body of your discourse is sometime guarded with fragments, and the guards are but slightly basted on neither: ere you flout old ends any further, examine your conscience: and so I leave you.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Now when the goddess Juno saw the Argives thus falling, she said to Minerva, "Alas, daughter of aegis-bearing Jove, unweariable, the promise we made Menelaus that he should not return till he had sacked the city of Ilius will be of no effect if we let Mars rage thus furiously.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Exactly the same forces operate to affect the volume and value of the money except that the production of silver, its use by other nations, etc., are the factors, instead of gold supply and use.
— from Honest Money by Arthur Isaac Fonda

Why do they bring on night, except for folks to go to sleep?"
— from The Rangeland Avenger by Max Brand

Mrs. Eunice Billings, of nearly equal age, was a good specimen of the wide-awake New-England woman.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 52, February, 1862 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

Being of New England fiber, and classing as morbid all forms of introspection, she always so dreaded to have the conversation drift into a reflective channel that whenever she found Willie indulging in reveries she was wont to rout him out of them, tartly reproaching herself for having even indirectly been the cause of stirrin' him up.
— from Flood Tide by Sara Ware Bassett

Don Pasqual's notes, moreover, present a mass of valuable material which can be obtained nowhere else.
— from The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole

[62] "The Irish Version of the Historia Britonum of Nennius," edited, with a translation and notes, by James H. Todd, D.D., F.T.C. (Dublin, 1848).
— from Ulster Folklore by Andrews, Elizabeth, F.R.A.I.

There is no doubt that, if this can be established, the line of oscillation would diverge in both directions—the point of return, or of restored coincidence, which before was in one of the extremes, would then be in the central point; consequently it would be of no effect in correcting the deviation, which would then go on increasing with every oscillation.
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 95, August 23, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

For, however great and elevated we may then be, our now existing natural powers will neither be changed nor destroyed.
— from The Happiness of Heaven By a Father of the Society of Jesus by F. J. Boudreaux