Five days after this a second assembly was held, to consider the speediest means of equipping the ships, and to vote whatever else might be required by the generals for the expedition; and Nicias, who had been chosen to the command against his will, and who thought that the state was not well advised, but upon a slight aid specious pretext was aspiring to the conquest of the whole of Sicily, a great matter to achieve, came forward in the hope of diverting the Athenians from the enterprise, and gave them the following counsel: "Although this assembly was convened to consider the preparations to be made for sailing to Sicily, I think, notwithstanding, that we have still this question to examine, whether it be better to send out the ships at all, and that we ought not to give so little consideration to a matter of such moment, or let ourselves be persuaded by foreigners into undertaking a war with which we have nothing to do.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Whoever believes in knowledge a priori will have an easy job: “The man has perceived it with his mind and reproduced it therewith; no objection may be raised to the soundness of his understanding; ergo, everything may be relied upon just as he has testified to it.”
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

If it be so, as it is plain it is, the name by which things are marked as having that essence must be referred primarily to that essence; and consequently the idea to which that name is given must be referred also to that essence, and be intended to represent it.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

The steeping method so much favored in England may be responsible for some of the unkind things said about English coffee; because it undoubtedly leads to the abuse of over-infusion, so that the net result is as bad as boiling.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

The preservation of the princess Elizabeth may be reckoned a remarkable instance of the watchful eye which Christ had over his church.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Wiederausfuhr re-exportation wiederausführen; Wiederausfuhr re-export Wiederbeschaffungskosten replacement costs Wiederbeschaffungszyklus replacement cycle Wiedereinfuhr re-importation wiedereinführen; Wiedereinfuhr re-import Wiedereinräumung des Besitzes equity of redemption Wiedereinstellung re-employment Wiedererkennung einer Marke brand recognition Wiedererkennungstest recognition test wiedererwerben reacquire Wiedergutmachung amends Wiedergutmachung reparation Wiedergutmachungsangebot offer of amends wiederholen recur wiederholen repeat wiederholt repeated Wiederholung recurrence Wiederholung eines Auftrags repeat order Wiederholungsanzeige repeat advertisement
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

Nyctalopia, so frequently encountered, must be regarded as a circulatory symptom rather than as one of nervous origin.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

We should also join in this opinion and give up any attempt at a theory, were it not that a great number of propositions make themselves evident without any difficulty, as, for instance, that the defensive form, with a negative object, is the stronger form, the attack, with the positive object, the weaker—that great results carry the little ones with them—that, therefore, strategic effects may be referred to certain centres of gravity—that a demonstration is a weaker application of force than a real attack, that, therefore, there must be some special reason for resorting to the former—that victory consists not merely in the conquest on the field of battle, but in the destruction of armed forces, physically and morally, which can in general only be effected by a pursuit after the battle is gained—that successes are always greatest at the point where the victory has been gained, that, therefore, the change from one line and object to another can only be regarded as a necessary evil—that a turning movement is only justified by a superiority of numbers generally or by the advantage of our lines of communication and retreat over those of the enemy—that flank positions are only justifiable on similar grounds—that every attack becomes weaker as it progresses.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

In a single dream a particularly troublesome element may be represented by "duplicates," that is, by numerous symbols.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

You, Emperor made By Rome, a son of Hercules 'tis said; And you of Spartibor.
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

His wife works also, of whom he said, "She's the best hand I got"; and if Celia is only as smart with her hoe as I know her to be with her tongue, Harry's estimate must be right.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

Perhaps the months that the biddable patient who has overcome his “resistances” devotes to coöperating with the scientific explorer, may be reduced to weeks in the treatment of the next like-minded individual who submits himself for treatment by the more practised practitioner.
— from The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 by Various

As the portion of the electrolyte which is evaporated is mainly water, the electrolyte may be readily restored to its normal level by adding distilled water or carefully collected rain water.
— from Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. by American School of Correspondence

Other errors might be retrieved—that one, once committed, never.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 15, No. 86, February, 1875 by Various

[ 14 ] Dr. Wiedemann takes the view that three main elements may be recognized in the Egyptian religion: (1) A solar monotheism, that is to say one god, the creator of the universe, who manifests his power especially in the sun and its operations; (2) A cult of the regenerating power of nature, which expresses itself in the adoration of ithyphallic gods, of fertile goddesses, and of a series of animals and of various deities of vegetation; (3) A perception of an anthropomorphic divinity, the life of whom in this world and in the world beyond this was typical of the ideal life of man [ 15 ] --this last divinity being, of course, Osiris.
— from Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life by Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir

That while the permanently positioned weight, such as the engines, frame, holding screws, etc., may be rigidly connected to or around the screw plane of support, the variable positioned weight, such as the passenger and the car, should be connected by a flexible joint to the said plane of support.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 443, June 28, 1884 by Various

War on the earth may be reasonable and natural, but in the air it seems the most senseless folly.
— from High Adventure: A Narrative of Air Fighting in France by James Norman Hall

This tale, current in Italy as well as in Northern England, might be regarded as a mere piece of folklore, if the incident had not reproduced itself in West Brompton.
— from Cock Lane and Common-Sense by Andrew Lang

Reserved suggests more of method and intention than taciturn , applying often to some special time or topic; one who is communicative regarding all else may be reserved about his business.
— from English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald

But the rôle played by Zamná was the same as that of Votan, and the same events at the same epoch may be reasonably supposed [619] to have originated the Yucatec as well as the Tzendal, Quiché, and Toltec traditions of this primitive historic period.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 5, Primitive History The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 5 by Hubert Howe Bancroft