We can never demonstrate the necessity of a cause to every new existence, or new modification of existence, without shewing at the same time the impossibility there is, that any thing can ever begin to exist without some productive principle; and where the latter proposition cannot be proved, we must despair of ever being able to prove the former.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

The first person to enter the field and the lists was the master of the ceremonies, who surveyed and paced the whole ground to see that there was nothing unfair and nothing concealed to make the combatants stumble or fall; then the duennas entered and seated themselves, enveloped in mantles covering their eyes, nay even their bosoms, and displaying no slight emotion as Don Quixote appeared in the lists.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The Prince had disagreed with the king and queen early after his coming to England, "not entirely," says Walpole, "by his own fault."
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 by Various

Contrary to expectation, nothing exciting occurred on Tuesday.
— from The Siege of Kimberley Its Humorous and Social Side; Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902); Eighteen Weeks in Eighteen Chapters by T. Phelan

In the conflict that ensued nearly every man of that guard was butchered, and the National Assembly decreed the suspension of the king's authority.
— from Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. by Benson John Lossing

To the Executive Committee shall belong the collecting and disbursing of funds; the appointing, counselling, sustaining and dismissing (for just and sufficient reasons) missionaries and agents; the selection of missionary fields; and, in general, the transaction of all such business as usually appertains to the executive committees of missionary and other benevolent societies; the Committee to exercise no ecclesiastical jurisdiction over the missionaries; and its doings to be subject always to the revision of the annual meeting, which shall, by a reference mutually chosen, always entertain the complaints of any aggrieved agent or missionary; and the decision of such reference shall be final.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 34, No. 09, September, 1880 by Various

Page 511, "MacLaurin" changed to "Maclaurin" (Maclaurin, on mathematical principles) Page 511, "Macropodos" changed to "Macropodus" ( Macropodus , 244) Page 511, "M'Cook" changed to "MacCook" (MacCook, the Rev. Dr.) Page 512, "M'Cready" changed to "M'Crady" (M'Crady, on larva of Medusæ ) Page 513, "Myrionphyllum" changed to "Myriophyllum" ( Myriophyllum spicatum , 243) Page 513, "Ervingii" changed to "Ewingii" ( Noctua Ewingii , 238) Page 514, "capillata" changed to "capillatus"; "332" changed to "232" ( Podocerus capillatus , 232) Page 515, entry under "Recognition," "by snakes and tortoises," "269" changed to "259."
— from Animal Intelligence The International Scientific Series, Vol. XLIV. by George John Romanes

But Pop, he told Mom this morning that if it’s as hot to-night as it was this dinner he won’t wear no coat to eat, not even if the Queen of Sheba comes to our place for a meal!
— from Amanda: A Daughter of the Mennonites by Anna Balmer Myers