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In other words, increasing the cause numerically need not equally increase numerically the effect.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James
when the nativs are engaged in navigateing their Canoes, one Sets in the Stern and Stears with a paddle the others Set by pars and paddle over their gunnals next them, they all kneel in the bottom of the Canoe and Set on their feet.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark
The truly dangerous enemy is not the cold or the hunger so much as the fear.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America
“But tell me how much you will need for what you have to purchase?” “Fifty sous—three francs.” “There won’t be much left for dinner.” “Eating is not the point to-day.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
But the unity, which can exist alone, and whose existence is necessary to that of all number, is of another kind, and must be perfectly indivisible, and incapable of being resolved into any lesser unity.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume
It is the vilest murder-trap on the whole river-side, and I fear that Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle
No special explanation is needed to show how an imperative of skill is possible.
— from Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals by Immanuel Kant
That, Newman, having been solemnly assured by one not then producible that Smike was not the son of Snawley, and this person having offered to make oath to that effect, if necessary, they had by this communication been first led to doubt the claim set up, which they would otherwise have seen no reason to dispute, supported as it was by evidence which they had no power of disproving.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
The enemy captured seven of our guns on Sunday, but on Monday we recovered seven; not the identical guns we had lost, but enough in number to balance the account.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman
The first presents corporeally concepts of things, as they might have existed in nature (though as beautiful art it has regard to aesthetical purposiveness).
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant
For indeed there is no piece of colour of the same extent in nature, that will so flatter and satisfy the lust of a man’s eyes; and to come 126 upon so many of them, after these acres of stone-coloured heavens and russet woods, and grey-brown ploughlands and white roads, was like going three whole days’ journey to the southward, or a month back into the summer.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 22 Juvenilia and Other Papers by Robert Louis Stevenson
Considered as a heat engine, the gas engine is now twice as efficient as the very best modern steam engine.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885 by Various
The reports of the two Committees which sat in India from early in November to the end of February last to fill out the framework of the Montagu-Chelmsford Report published last July were issued last night.
— from The Political Future of India by Lala Lajpat Rai
That this must be classed among the earlier if not the earliest of his works we may infer from the primitive simplicity of a stage direction which recalls another in a play printed five years before.
— from The Age of Shakespeare by Algernon Charles Swinburne
prison, death, everything is not too bad for me; but you, my dear, dear boy!”
— from The Poacher; Or, Joseph Rushbrook by Frederick Marryat
From Corbridge and Carlisle roads ran on northwards, and the eastern, if not the western, of these gave access to the Wall of Pius.
— from The Provinces of the Roman Empire, from Caesar to Diocletian. v. 2 by Theodor Mommsen
Does not the same Word of God declare that the Apostles received power to confer the Holy Ghost by the imposition of hands, to forgive sins, to consecrate the Body and Blood of Christ, etc. Is not the New Testament as worthy of belief as the Old?
— from The Faith of Our Fathers by James Gibbons
There were, however, other objections, for there were those who felt that it was somewhat indefinite to promise admission into the Confederation of certain sections of the country as soon as their population should equal in number that of the least populous of the original States.
— from The Fathers of the Constitution: A Chronicle of the Establishment of the Union by Max Farrand
A servant who has lived in a dozen different houses, staying about a month in each, is not thought the worse of on that account.
— from Life in Mexico by Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis) Calderón de la Barca
"A home on the raging deep," is not a scene of enjoyment, even to the sailor, who suffers only from hardship and exposure; no other laborer's wages are so dearly earned as his, and his season of enjoyment is not the voyage but the stay in port.
— from Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. by Horace Greeley
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