It is also certain, that this very perception or object is supposed to have a continued uninterrupted being, and neither to be annihilated by our absence, nor to be brought into existence by our presence.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

The Language also, which they use, both in the Churches, and in their Publique Acts, being Latine, which is not commonly used by any Nation now in the world, what is it but the Ghost of the Old Romane Language.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

The process we undergo in mathematical or dialectical thinking is called understanding, because a natural sequence is there adequately translated into ideal terms.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Thus the second mode employed by speculative reason of demonstrating the existence of a Supreme Being, is not only, like the first, illusory and inadequate, but possesses the additional blemish of an ignoratio elenchi—professing to conduct us by a new road to the desired goal, but bringing us back, after a short circuit, to the old path which we had deserted at its call.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

CHAPTER IV The Malay Pantheon [ Contents ] ( a ) Gods A careful investigation of the magic rites and charms used by a nation which has changed its religion will not unfrequently show, that what is generally called witchcraft is merely the débris of the older ritual, condemned by the priests of the newer faith, but yet stubbornly, though secretly, persisting, through the unconquerable religious conservatism of the mass of the people.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

It was fortunate for Islamism that, as the standard of the Prophet was falling from the feeble grasp of the Arabs, it was caught up by a nation like the Turks, whose fiery zeal urged them to bear it still onward in the march of victory.
— from History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by William Hickling Prescott

Bear me well, good horse; for if you fail me the giants will catch us both, and neither of us will return to bring the news to our master Frey."
— from In the Days of Giants: A Book of Norse Tales by Abbie Farwell Brown

CLARK PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL ECONOMY AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge 1914 COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Published April 1914 BARBARA WEINSTOCK LECTURES ON THE MORALS OF TRADE
— from Social Justice Without Socialism by John Bates Clark

Mr. Chillingworth admitted that, although he had big hopes of the country ultimately becoming a new Eldorado.
— from The Bungalow Boys in the Great Northwest by John Henry Goldfrap

He "came unto Balaam at night, and said unto him, If the men come to call thee, rise up and go with them; but yet the word which I shall say unto thee, that shalt thou do."
— from Bible Romances, First Series by G. W. (George William) Foote