They have seen, too, that one legislative interference is but the first link of a long chain of repetitions, every subsequent interference being naturally produced by the effects of the preceding.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

If then the soul is capable of recalling earlier sensations, and having new ones, to which the former would form no obstacle, it is because she is not corporeal.
— from Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 1 In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods by Plotinus

The houses are faced with brick and surrounded with gardens, it has a mosque and kháns, but 40 no college or reading establishment, seven abecedarian schools, a bath, and a market, but no port.
— from Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in the Seventeenth Century, Vol. II by Evliya Çelebi

; The Masque of the Inner Temple , 124 - 144 ; [429] the Pastoralists, and other contemporaries at the Inns of Court, 131 - 144 ; an intersecting circle of jovial sort, 145 - 149 ; the Countess of Rutland (Elizabeth Sidney), 150ff.
— from Francis Beaumont: Dramatist A Portrait, with Some Account of His Circle, Elizabethan and Jacobean, And of His Association with John Fletcher by Charles Mills Gayley

It is found, more or less abundantly, throughout the whole of Europe, principally in the mountain districts in North and South America, dwelling in the clefts of rocks, especially such as are exposed to the mid-day sun.
— from Mrs. Loudon's Entertaining Naturalist Being popular descriptions, tales, and anecdotes of more than Five Hundred Animals. by Mrs. (Jane) Loudon

Of course, the case for Design must be rendered unanswerable if a certitude of Reason, either speculative or practical, or a very strong conclusion of moral argument, or a probability outweighing all other probabilities, shall in any way be shewn for accepting the still nobler belief in a self-existent Will and Personality.
— from The Philosophy of Natural Theology An Essay in confutation of the scepticism of the present day by William Jackson

The act of the government in substituting an Independence Arch in place of the former gate, outside the West Gate, which commemorated Chinese suzerainty, was looked upon, 310 and rightly, by the more thoughtful as being merely a superficial demonstration which was based upon no deeper desire than that of being free from all control or restraint except such as personal inclination should dictate.
— from The History of Korea (vol. 2 of 2) by Homer B. (Homer Bezaleel) Hulbert

The hand of a woman presented a collection of rings, ‘et si ces bagues étaient des antiques, elles offriraient un échantillon d’un cabinet des pierres gravées.’
— from Finger-Ring Lore: Historical, Legendary, Anecdotal by Jones, William, F.S.A.