I shall venture to affirm as a general proposition which admits of no exception, that the knowledge of this relation is not, in any instance, attained by reasonings a priori; but arises entirely from experience, when we find that any particular objects are constantly conjoined with each other; ... nor can our reason, unassisted by experience, ever draw any inference concerning real existence and matter of fact.”
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

They were to hasten to their fields of work; seek gradually to close relief establishments, and make the destitute self-supporting; act as courts of law where there were no courts, or where Negroes were not recognized in them as free; establish the institution of marriage among ex-slaves, and keep records; see that freedmen were free to choose their employers, and help in making fair contracts for them; and finally, the circular said: "Simple good faith, for which we hope on all hands for those concerned in the passing away of slavery, will especially relieve the assistant commissioners in the discharge of their duties toward the freedmen, as well as promote the general welfare.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

And he was the son of Mars: for we may grant this much to the common report existing among men, especially as it is not merely ancient, but one also which has been wisely maintained by our ancestors, in order that those who have done great service to communities may enjoy the reputation of having received from the Gods, not only their genius, but their very birth.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

No object ever discovers, by the qualities which appear to the senses, either the causes which produced it, or the effects which will arise from it; nor can our reason, unassisted by experience, ever draw any inference concerning real existence and matter of fact.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

There have been severe combats, raids, expeditions, and movements to defeat the designs and purposes of the enemy, most of them reflecting great credit on our arms, and which contributed greatly to our final triumph, that I have not mentioned.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

With the regiment comes Roger Ellis, a man of middle age, and an ultra-radical.
— from Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, Volume 02 (of 14), 1899 by Mississippi Historical Society

The Conservatorium, royally endowed and municipally controlled, held to its time-honoured customs with tenacity.
— from Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson

It is desirable to disconnect a large motor in case of voltage failure, and with conditions requiring either a motor operated, [Pg 1671] or a solenoid operated circuit breaker, a low voltage relay is used to close the tripping circuit whenever the voltage decreases to, approximately, 50 per cent.
— from Hawkins Electrical Guide v. 07 (of 10) Questions, Answers, & Illustrations, A progressive course of study for engineers, electricians, students and those desiring to acquire a working knowledge of electricity and its applications by N. (Nehemiah) Hawkins

The clergy remonstrated energetically, as may be imagined (Ib., i. 29-39).
— from History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Henry Martyn Baird

In it, as in a second draft, which in its turn was superseded by the Advancement , the line of thought of the Latin Cogitationes reappears, expanded and more carefully ordered; it contains also the first sketch of his certain and infallible method for what he calls the "freeing of the direction" in the search after Truth, and the first indications of the four classes of "Idols" which were to be so memorable a portion of Bacon's teaching.
— from Bacon by R. W. (Richard William) Church

I could readily enough acquit myself, with good sound legal proofs, of any such singularity as stands charged in this soft impeachment—and that without appeal to The Cleveland Plain Dealer of eleven years ago ("slushy and disgusting"), or to The New York Post ("sterile and malodorous … worse than immoral—dull"), or to Ainslee's Magazine ("inconsequent and rambling … rather nauseating at times").
— from The Cords of Vanity: A Comedy of Shirking by James Branch Cabell

Their duties are to take charge of civil, reconstruction, educational and military affairs.
— from The China of Chiang K'ai-Shek: A Political Study by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

In reality only individual, definite, concrete rights exist, and man simply comes along and abstracts from them the idea of justice, just as he abstracted from different kinds of wood the conception of wood in general, or from material things the conception of matter.
— from The Positive Outcome of Philosophy The Nature of Human Brain Work. Letters on Logic. by Joseph Dietzgen

But having reached the table, she directed Tom to take his rightful seat, at some distance from her own, and Carleton’s chair remained empty at Madeleine’s side.
— from The Clue by Carolyn Wells