Knowledge transcends sensation by relating it to other sensation, and thereby rising to a supersensuous plane, the plane of principles and causes by which sensibles are identified in character and distributed in existence.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Ceremonies are different in every country; but true politeness is everywhere the same.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

In short, entirely forgetting he was a man, he treated him with such shocking contempt, and so cruel a disdain in everything, that the poor lad, a very good creature, whom Madam d’Epinay had recommended, quitted his service without any other complaint than that of the impossibility of enduring such treatment.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The propagandists of each country try to give the enemy the news which the enemy wants, while so arranging that news as to create a drop in enemy morale, to develop uncertainty in enemy policies, to set enemy cliques into action against each other.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

Thus, in judging the remoteness of traditional events, they cannot use the co-ordinates of a social setting constantly in change and divided into epochs.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Instead of far-fetched wit and fanciful diction, the classical school erected the standards of common sense in conception and directness in expression.
— from The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

The extant text consists of forty chapters ( adhyāya ) divided into eight books called panchikās or “pentads,” because containing five chapters each.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

The local forms are moderately constant and distinct in each separate island; but when all from the several islands are compared together, the differences are seen to be so slight and graduated that it is impossible to define or describe them, though at the same time the extreme forms are sufficiently distinct.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

It expressed the idea of the right to claim and defend in equity.
— from Public Lands and Agrarian Laws of the Roman Republic by Andrew Stephenson

It hath admitted it with complacence and delight into every chamber of the soul; I mean, it has been delightfully admitted to an entertainment by all the powers or faculties of the soul.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

Her condition is paradoxical; it creates a dilemma; it evolves a situation most remarkable and striking.
— from The Anglo-Saxon Century and the Unification of the English-Speaking People by John R. (John Randolph) Dos Passos

In the next place, it must be observed that every moral disposition brings with it an intellectual bias which exercises a great and often a controlling and decisive influence even upon the most earnest enquirer.
— from History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

But the mines of Cornwall and Devonshire, in England, are more productive than those of all other countries united.
— from Popular Technology; or, Professions and Trades. Vol. 2 (of 2) by Edward Hazen

He spoke of the wonderful manner in which the world was called out of chaos at the creation, and spoke feelingly of the Garden of Eden, and the fall of our first parents; he then went on to review the many changes the earth had experienced since it was first created, and described the method of the ancients to cook bread before stoves were invented; he then spoke of the glories of Greece and Rome, giving a full history of them from the beginning to the present time; he then went on to describe the origin of the republican and democratic parties, reading both platforms, and giving his ideas of Jackson's policy; he then gave an account of the war of the Roses in England, and the cholera in Persia, attributing the latter to a sudden change in the atmosphere; he then went on to speak of the difficulties encountered by Columbus in discovering this country, and gave a history of his subsequent career and death in Europe; he then read an extract from Washington's Farewell Address; in conclusion, he said that the ladies of Washington had empowered him to present this here sword to that ere gallant colonel, in the presence of these here brave defenders of their country.
— from The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1 by R. H. (Robert Henry) Newell

They are more ingenious than the London rogues; they have more animation and invention, and the dramatic faculty, in which your countrymen are deficient, is everywhere.
— from The Room in the Dragon Volant by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

But he was opposed by his colleagues and driven into exile.
— from The Gracchi Marius and Sulla Epochs of Ancient History by A. H. (Augustus Henry) Beesly

The occupation of Muttuck, formerly under native management, must also have proved distasteful to a savage people possessing a wild country and delighting in extensive hunting-grounds.
— from A Sketch of Assam: With some account of the Hill Tribes by Butler, John, Major

And hopeless as the claim of vulgar characters may seem to the supercilious and severe, there are few who do not at one time or other endeavour to step forward beyond their rank; who do not make some struggles for fame, and show that they think all other conveniencies and delights imperfectly enjoyed without a name.
— from The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler by Samuel Johnson