These suppositions are all consistent and natural; and the reason, Why we imagine the communication of motion to be more consistent and natural not only than those suppositions, but also than any other natural effect, is founded on the relation of resemblance betwixt the cause and effect, which is here united to experience, and binds the objects in the closest and most intimate manner to each other, so as to make us imagine them to be absolutely inseparable.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

The prisoners must, however, be from nations of acknowledged prowess, such as those of Atlixco, the Huexotzincas, or Tlascaltecs; double or triple the number of Cuextecas or Tenimes must be captured, and no number of these could entitle a youth to the highest honors.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 2, Civilized Nations The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 2 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

The rider had attempted to cross a narrow neck of the slough.
— from The Covered Wagon by Emerson Hough

The majority of the birds mentioned in this chapter are not natives of the British Islands, but, strange as it may appear, there is evidence to show that the pelican, or, to 319.png speak more correctly, a species of pelican, once inhabited the English fens.
— from The Ornithology of Shakespeare Critically examined, explained and illustrated by James Edmund Harting

It was included in the Grudge Report but contained a note: "None of the recorded incidents appear to have been lightning."
— from The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Edward J. Ruppelt

If he made any unpleasant discovery, was he bound to a disclosure that might cast a new net of trouble around her?
— from Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

Whiteness, therefore, is the name of the color exclusively: white is a name of all things whatever having the color; a name, not of the quality whiteness, but of every white object.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive by John Stuart Mill

Morveau contrived a new nomenclature of the salts, and published it in 1783; and it appears to have been seen and approved of by Bergman.
— from The History of Chemistry, Volume 2 (of 2) by Thomas Thomson

INDEX Addison Aesthetics Aigremont Albert Hall, the Albertus Magnus Andersen, Hendrik Angels and poets Animals and Man Anti-Militarism Apple, symbolism of the Architecture, Norman and Burgundian; Spanish; English Aristotle Arnold, Matthew Art Artists as writers Augustine, St. Australia Bacon Bailey, P. H. Barcelona Barker, Granville Bathing Baudelaire Bayeux tapestry Beauty, in women; and love; the strangeness of proportion in; in Nature and Man; and Nothingness; and imperfection; in style Beauvais Beethoven Bergerac, Cyrano de Bernard, St. Bianca Stella Bible, the Birnbaum Birth-rate, decline in Blake Boccaccio Body, significance of the Böhme Bovarism Brantôme Bretons Browning, R. Bryan, W.J. Buddha Burgundy Burton, Sir R. Busoni Byng, Admiral Caen Canterbury, Archbishops of Carducci Carus, P. Castle Hedingham Catalans Catullus Chidley Chivalry Chopin Christianity Churches, English City, the World Civilisation Clarity in style Clergyman, the Anglican Cliché , the Cloister, the Coleridge Conductors, English musical, Cornwall, Counters, Coutance, Cowley, Crowd, psychology of the, Curzon, Lord, Dancing, Dante, Darling, Justice, Daumier, Death, Delarue-Mardrus, Lucie, Denyn, J., Deslys, Gaby, Devil, fate of the, Dickinson, Dijon, Dives, Drake, Drama, Dukas, Eccles, Solomon, Elgar, Elizabeth, Queen, Ellis, Henry, England, English, women, temperament, sailor, literature, excessiveness, type, churches, love of flowers, Eskimo, Eternity, Eucalyptus, Eugenics, Euripides, Evolution, Exfodiation, Fécamp, Fechner, Feminism, Flagellation, Flaubert, Flowers, Fountains, Franck, César, Freedom, French spirit, Freud, Furniture, Gardens, Gaultier, Jules de, Genius, Gibbon, God, Goethe, Goncourt, Gourmont, Remy de, Greek language, Hahn, Hair, Hall, Stanley, Harnack, Heaven, Hell, Herrick, Robert, Hinton, James, Hobbes, Hostility, the vanity of, Humboldt, Wilhelm von, Hydrangea, Imbecility, Immorality, Individuality, Irony, Isaiah, Italy, Jacobean furniture, Janson, G., Jesus, Johnson, Kapo, Kraepelin, Lamb, C., Landor, Latin, Lenormand, Lévy-Bruhl, Life, Lind-Af-Hageby, Miss, Linnaeus, Logic in morals, London Lucretius Luther Macaulay Maeterlinck Malaterra, Geoffrey Maldon Malines Man Marinetti Mass, the Mazzini Mediaevalism Mendelssohn Meredith, George Metaphor Michelangelo Midsummer Eve Milton Mimosa Mirrors Mob, the Molière Monks, as epicures Montserrat Mont St. Michel Morality Morocco Music Nakedness Nantes Nature Newbolt, H. Nietzsche Nigeria, religious rites of Nikisch Norman, genius women character architecture Normandy Novels Obscene, the Obscurity in style October Ogive, the Olives Ovid Pachmann Pain Palencia Pantheon, the Paris Pascal Pater Paulhan Peace Propaganda Pear, symbolism of the Perfection Perpignan Perugino Peter, St. Pliny, the Elder Poets, as critics as angels Poincaré, II.
— from Impressions and Comments by Havelock Ellis

Yet, suddenly, there came a new note on the night air.
— from The Submarine Boys for the Flag Deeding Their Lives to Uncle Sam by Victor G. Durham