What further or better belief can be said to exist in these Twelve Hundred?
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

[Pg xi] II.—The eternal element in religion—Concerning the conflict between science and religion; it has to do solely with the speculative side of religion—What this side seems destined to become 427 III.—How has society been able to be the source of logical, that is to say conceptual, thought?
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

The daily subsistence of near a million of extraordinary subjects could be supplied only by constant and skilful diligence, and might continually be interrupted by mistake or accident.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

“When the authenticity of all these documents is accepted, we must now pass to the evidence of their authors’ mission; we must know the laws of chance, and probability, to decide which prophecy cannot be fulfilled without a miracle; we must know the spirit of the original languages, to distinguish between prophecy and figures of speech; we must know what facts are in accordance with nature and what facts are not, so that we may say how far a clever man may deceive the eyes of the simple and may even astonish the learned; we must discover what are the characteristics of a prodigy and how its authenticity may be established, not only so far as to gain credence, but so that doubt may be deserving of punishment; we must compare the evidence for true and false miracles, and find sure tests to distinguish between them; lastly we must say why God chose as a witness to his words means which themselves require so much evidence on their behalf, as if he were playing with human credulity, and avoiding of set purpose the true means of persuasion.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

COMFORTABLE BREAD, spiced gingerbread.
— from The Alchemist by Ben Jonson

Thirdly, if the colors be strong and vivid, they are always diversified, and the object is never of one strong color; there are almost always such a number of them (as in variegated flowers) that the strength and glare of each is considerably abated.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Seated here in solitude I have been musing over my life—connecting events, dates, as links of a chain, neither sadly nor cheerily, but somehow, to-day here under the oak, in the rain, in an unusually matter-of-fact spirit.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

The hypotheses of the latter (in other words, Theology) really lie at the root of his system, and as these alone in point of fact lend it any meaning or sense, so they cannot be separated from, indeed are implicitly contained in, it.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

Result clauses are often preceded in the main clause by such words as tam , ita , sic ( so ), and these serve to point them out.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

The meaning covers both “soul“and “life” ( i.e. not the state of being alive, but the cause thereof or “vital principle”).
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

So, in the three years that had passed since she had yielded body and soul into the keeping of Jack Traill, had Sally's character become set in the moulding of his influence.
— from Sally Bishop: A Romance by E. Temple (Ernest Temple) Thurston

It may be that she had been easily convinced--it may be that love for one and disliking for another had smoothed the way for such conviction; but still she was convinced ; and no consciousness of doing wrong added weight to other emotions.
— from The Woodman: A Romance of the Times of Richard III by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Of its shortcomings no one can be so convinced as I am myself.
— from George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals. Vol. 1 (of 3) by George Eliot

Malánya Pávlovna was in utter consternation, but she put the old man to bed, and sent for the priest.
— from A Reckless Character, and Other Stories by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

The baron and baroness, who had made a pretext of coming to see how the salt harvest throve, were on the jetty, admiring the silent landscape, where the sea alone sounded the moan of her waves at regular intervals, where boats and vessels tracked a vast expanse, and the girdle of green earth richly cultivated, produced an effect that was all the more charming because so rare on the desolate shores of ocean.
— from Beatrix by Honoré de Balzac

The Staubach is shimmering its long, filmy length in the sunlight to my right: the Jungfrau lifting just opposite its sun-struck dazzle of snow, and beautiful as she is reported, which cannot be said of all Jungfraus.
— from By-gone Tourist Days: Letters of Travel by Laura G. Case Collins

God can no more be said to be the cause of sin, by suffering a creature to act as it will, than he can be said to be the cause of the not being of any creature, by denying it being, and letting it remain nothing; it is not from God that it is nothing, it is nothing in itself.
— from The Existence and Attributes of God, Volumes 1 and 2 by Stephen Charnock

109 The warm and strengthening mutton broth had already affected Sam wonderfully, as could be seen in the way he began to look around, and take notice of things.
— from The Boy Scouts on the Roll of Honor by Robert Shaler

So also a growing child is substantially egoistic, and it must be taught by precept and example that the rights of others can be safeguarded only by the altruistic correction of personal action, long before the child can grasp the higher conceptions of ethics.
— from The Doctrine of Evolution: Its Basis and Its Scope by Henry Edward Crampton