There are, furthermore, neuroses in children in which the factor of displacement in time is necessarily greatly minimized or is entirely lacking, since the illness follows as an immediate consequence of the traumatic experience.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

I said, "I demonstrate it thus: Is not God one and individual?
— from The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love To Which is Added The Pleasures of Insanity Pertaining To Scortatory Love by Emanuel Swedenborg

As a decorative institution there is no great eagerness to pull it down, but whenever the House forgets [Pg 155] that its functions are ornamental, and commits itself to a serious issue with the Commons, its last hour will be at hand.
— from The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 by Various

Therefore, if the offerer asks for an act in return for his promise, that is, asks for an immediate payment, or work, or the giving of property for his promise, no contract can be made by the person addressed saying, "All right, I will do it;" that is not giving the price the offerer asked.
— from Commercial Law by Richard William Hill

Hauing considered the former report of the Indians, and the euill meanes which I had to prosecute my voyage as I desired, I thought it not good wilfully to lose my life as Stephan did; and so I told them, that God would punish those of Ceuola, and that the Viceroy when he should vnderstand what had happened, would send many Christians to chastise them: but they would not beleeue me, for they sayde that no man was able to withstand the power of Ceuola.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 14 America, Part III by Richard Hakluyt

In the alleged state of nature, as the philosophers describe it, there is no germ of civilization, and the transition to civil society would not be a development, but a complete rupture with the past, and an entire new creation.
— from The American Republic: Its Constitution, Tendencies, and Destiny by Orestes Augustus Brownson

"Another reason," continued Dick, "is that I never gamble, whether it's over a game of billiards or something else.
— from Dick Hamilton's Fortune; Or, The Stirring Doings of a Millionaire's Son by Howard Roger Garis

They asked concerning their location, and were told all that Cummings and Poyor knew, and when the very satisfactory meal was brought to a close the former said as if inviting a discussion: "We have sufficient food to last us three days if there is no game picked up on the way; but our supply of water threatens to run short very soon unless we can manage to refill the canteens.
— from The Search for the Silver City: A Tale of Adventure in Yucatan by James Otis

"Here I sit beside you, day after day, deceiving myself with the thought that I am making your time pass pleasantly till—" "There is not any deception in that," interrupted Nehushta gently.
— from Marzio's Crucifix, and Zoroaster by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

We might not like each other so well; friendship is apt to dull if there is no ground for speculation left.
— from The Morgesons: A Novel by Elizabeth Stoddard