The above must be regarded as a complete refutation of the 184 position taken by Hume , to wit, that the idea of nature eternally existing in a state of order, without a cause other than the eternally inherent laws of nature, is no more self-contradictory than the idea of an eternally-existing and infinite mind, who originated this order--a God existing without a cause.
— from Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker

The population was reduced to the last extremity, it lived on nothing but malt and bran , and it had not even enough of these to satisfy its wants.
— from Memoirs of General Count Rapp, first aide-de-camp to Napoleon by Rapp, Jean, comte

ation regarding Poland weakness of Nineteenth century, the, wars of Nitti, Francesco S., and admission of ex-enemies into League of Nations and Germany's responsibility for the war and Italian Socialists and Russia and the Italian military expedition to Georgia and the proposed trial of the Kaiser at Conferences of London and San Remo denounces economic manifesto his son a prisoner of war ideals of opposes Adriatic adventure receives deputation of German business men signs ratification of Treaty of Versailles the indemnity question and Northcliffe Press, the, and the indemnity OGIER, M., territorial reconstruction scheme of Oliganthropy, Orlando, M., and the reparations question Orlando Ministry, the, resignation of Ottoman Empire, the, a limited sovereignty to Turkish parts of PALESTINE, Treaty of Sèvres and Paper currency, Germany's pre-and post-war Paris, an unsuitable meeting place for Conference Peace Conference in Supreme Council at welcomes President Wilson Paris Conference, and the indemnity Peace, necessary conditions for Peace Conference, Lloyd George's memorandum for Peace treaties, a negation of justice and continuation of the war and their application effect on Germany of origin and aims of question of reparation and indemnity revision of, a necessity their opposition to Wilson's fourteen points Peace treaty of June, 1919, summary of terms of Peasants, Russian, and the old regime Petrograd, text of London Agreement published in Plebiscite, result of, in Upper Silesia Plebiscites, system of Poincaré, M., and Clemenceau and Germany's right of entry into League of Nations and the peace treaties Lloyd George replies to on military guarantees and occupation Poland, aims at further expansion anarchic condition of and the plebiscite and the Treaty of Versailles Poland, army of financial position of gains by Treaty her policy of greed obtains State of Danzig of to-day the Tsar's proclamation regarding treaty with France working for ruin Polish state, foundation of an independent Politics, German, pre-war Portugal, war debt of Progress, war as condition towards Public debts of warring nations ( cf .
— from Peaceless Europe by Francesco Saverio Nitti

Let me not be suspected of failing to attach sufficient importance to those public expressions of international amity which we hear so frequently, couched in such charming phraseology, at the dinners given by the Pilgrims, either in London or New York, and on similar occasions.
— from The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations by Harry Perry Robinson

The shoes were of much the same character as those of the male examples illustrated, though they hardly reached the same extravagance in length, owing, no doubt, to the feet of woman being hampered by her skirt; but I suspect they even braved high wooden clogs, as we know they did the tall chopins of the 16th century, to heighten their stature.
— from Dress Design: An Account of Costume for Artists & Dressmakers by Talbot Hughes

Most of the victims are so accustomed to blows already that the physical effect is little or nothing, but they awaken feelings of detestation against a society which so avenges its own faults.
— from The Century of the Child by Ellen Key

The best business man in the quartermaster’s employ is Lawton, of Newport, brother-in-law of the Turners (Colonel Robert R. Lawton).
— from The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Volume 1 (of 2) by Hazard Stevens

It has been described by a journalist addicted above his fellows to superlatives—the equivalent in literature of nips of brandy “neat”—as “one of the flashiest, most flaunting, sin-soaked dens in London,” which is just so much nonsense.
— from The Old Inns of Old England, Volume 2 (of 2) A Picturesque Account of the Ancient and Storied Hostelries of Our Own Country by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper

“Now,” saith he, “the universal weighs what is fit to be said or done, either in likelihood or necessity; which the poesy considereth in his imposed names; and the particular only marks, whether Alcibiades did, or suffered, this or that:” thus far Aristotle.
— from A Defence of Poesie and Poems by Philip Sidney