But nothing can be universally communicated except cognition and representation, so far as it belongs to cognition.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

What we have to do is to bring under consideration every common tendency of the powers of the mind and soul towards the business of War, the whole of which common tendencies we may look upon as the ESSENCE OF MILITARY GENIUS.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

Had the Anglo-French and American bourgeoisie accepted the Soviet invitation to participate in peace negotiations at Brest-Litovsk, instead of leaving Russia to the mercy of brutal Germany a just peace without annexations and indemnities, a peace based upon complete equality could have been forced upon Germany, and millions of lives might have been saved.
— from A Letter to American Workingmen, from the Socialist Soviet Republic of Russia by Vladimir Il'ich Lenin

Breech-loading, which had been used centuries earlier, came in again with these first rifles, but after 1865 the British navy went back to muzzle-loading and stuck to it persistently for the next 15 years.
— from A History of Sea Power by William Oliver Stevens

What was evidently a conversation between the officers followed; but it was conducted in so low a tone that Isaac could not hear the words, and he remained near at hand expecting to receive the order to launch the boats, until Colonel Easton called him by name.
— from Corporal 'Lige's Recruit: A Story of Crown Point and Ticonderoga by James Otis

If we regard the fulfilment of our purpose as contingent upon any circumstances , past, present, or future, we are not making use of first cause; we have descended to the level of secondary causation, which is the region of doubts, fears, and limitations, all of which we are impressing upon the universal subjective mind with the inevitable result that it will build up corresponding external conditions.
— from The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science by T. (Thomas) Troward

In his opinion, based upon circumstantial evidence, "crowner's quests" were a form of legal absurdity.
— from The Submarine Hunters: A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

If the requirement of community in the church hymnody permits dealing with special situations and experiences in the realm of spiritual life, then it ought to follow that this character of community will not be violated if the content of the church hymn bears upon certain external conditions and circumstances in which the entire congregation never can find itself at any one time.
— from Hymnological Studies by Matthew Nathanael Lundquist

Sidney screamed shrilly as if in terror, and the stranger gave every evidence of fear while he seemed to shrink back, until Captain Eph cried sharply: "What's the matter with you, Sonny?
— from The Light Keepers: A Story of the United States Light-house Service by James Otis