The commentators give a name to this sinner, but it is only guesswork.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

That other objects, considered merely as ideas , are like his body, that is, like it, fill space (which itself can only be present as idea), and also, like it, are causally active in space, is indeed demonstrably certain from the law of causality which is a priori valid for ideas, and which admits of no effect without a cause; but apart from the fact that we can only reason from an effect to a cause generally, and not to a similar cause, we are still in the sphere of mere ideas, in which alone the law of causality is valid, and beyond which it can never take us.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Have all the lies and thefts and hates— Is this Thy Crucifixion, God, And not that funny, little cross, With vinegar and thorns?
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

to rally back the retreating spirits, and aiding nature at the same time with his left arm a kimbo on one side, and with his right a little extended, supporting her on the other—the corporal got as near the note as he could; and in that attitude, continued his story.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Zeno first, and after him Cleanthes and Chrysippus, are put to the unnecessary trouble of explaining mere fables, and giving reasons for the several appellations of every Deity; which is really owning that those whom we call Gods are not the representations of deities, but natural things, and that to judge otherwise is an error.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The result seems to be, that the grasping Copula constantly gets a “not” that had better have been merged in the Predicate, and that Propositions are differentiated which had better have been recognised as precisely similar.
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

" "You need not be ashamed to expose your ignorance, for I don't suppose the whole South Kensington staff could give a name to it."
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

It is a sister and sister and a flower and a flower and a dog and a colored sky a sky colored grey and nearly that nearly that let.
— from Tender Buttons Objects—Food—Rooms by Gertrude Stein

This letter was written from Broadstairs, whither he had gone in August, after such help as he only could give, and never took such delight as in giving, to a work of practical humanity.
— from The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by John Forster

"That gentleman," continued Altamont, pointing to the captain, "can give a name to all the lands he discovers, if he discovers any; but this continent belongs to me!
— from The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras by Jules Verne

It was more like a funeral, coming home the other day, than anything else that I could give a name to.
— from Vestigia. Vol. II. by George Fleming

The royal bride chosen was Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, a girl of seventeen, who for more than half a century gave a new tone to English society.
— from Kew Gardens With 24 full-page Illustrations in Colour by A. R. Hope (Ascott Robert Hope) Moncrieff

These different confederacies subsisted independently side by side; the leading states of central Gaul appear never to have extended their clientship to the north-east nor, seriously, perhaps even to the north-west of Gaul.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

He may give a hundred thousand pounds damages; but he may not in the most trivial case grant a new trial.
— from Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

The three persons of the Christian Godhead are not tres Dii , three Gods;—at least they are not meant to be such;—but unus Deus , one God.
— from The Essence of Christianity Translated from the second German edition by Ludwig Feuerbach

His reward for this almost superhuman confidence in his own powers was correspondingly great; and now, though he knew nothing of the handling of cavalry and infantry save from books, he determined to lead the Army of Italy to a series of conquests that would rival those of Cæsar.
— from The Life of Napoleon I (Complete) by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose