2, form the coherence of our perceptions.] of reasoning from experience, discover a connexion or repugnance betwixt objects, which extends not to impressions; though the inverse proposition may not be equally true, that all the discoverable relations of impressions are common to objects.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

The property of justice is to [Pg 137] humble pride, however holy may be our works, et non intres in judicium ,
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

They are all human figures that wanton in the rocks—a crowd of foam-women—a band of white, evanescent Nereids.
— from Shirley by Charlotte Brontë

Thus we may establish it as a certain maxim, that we can never, by any principle, but by an irregular kind of reasoning from experience, [12] discover a connexion or repugnance betwixt objects, which extends not to impressions; though the inverse proposition may not be equally true, that all the discoverable relations of impressions are common to objects.
— from Philosophical Works, v. 1 (of 4) Including All the Essays, and Exhibiting the More Important Alterations and Corrections in the Successive Editions Published by the Author by David Hume

"The Beginnings of Westward Expansion," North Carolina Review , September and October, 1910.
— from The Conquest of the Old Southwest; the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790 by Archibald Henderson

The Persians, from hatred of the religion of the Phœnicians and the Egyptians, destroyed their books, of which Eusebius notices a great number.
— from Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli

But no one said a word of better or worse, except now and again a wistful voice from the beds that stood so close together.
— from Voices in the Night by Flora Annie Webster Steel

The dragoons, who came riding up below our window, every now and then, to order an unlucky hackney-coach or cart away, as soon as it had comfortably established itself, and was covered with exulting people (but never before), became imperious, and quick-tempered.
— from Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens

Our councils are not barren of wisdom, Ensign, nor hath it often arrived that abstrusities have been propounded, that some one intellect, to say no more in our own favor, hath not been known to grapple with, successfully."
— from The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish by James Fenimore Cooper

"Yes, my coat and boots gone, bottle of wine emptied, no fee for professional aid—a fine day's work for me."
— from Elsie's Womanhood by Martha Finley