For even supposing these impressions should be entirely effaced from the memory, the conviction they produced may still remain; and it is equally true, that all reasonings concerning causes and effects are originally derived from some impression; in the same manner, as the assurance of a demonstration proceeds always from a comparison of ideas, though it may continue after the comparison is forgot.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Yet it is supposed before everything else that the duty of the court is to establish the material truth—that the formal truth is insufficient.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Some obstacles undeniably increase pleasure by drawing out force and skill to overcome them, as is clearly shown in the case of games and sports: and even if we understand pain-causing impediments to be only such hindrances as repress and diminish action, I do not find that the theory is supported by experience, except [182] so far as the repression causes the specific discomfort of unsatisfied desire.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

I should be expecting every day to hear that you were brought back in irons and put in jail.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

It may be supposed I asked the question; but I have since passed twenty years at Paris, and certainly know that city, yet was the same question repeated at this day, I should be equally embarrassed to answer it, and from this embarrassment it might be concluded I had never been there: thus, even when we meet with truths, we are subject to build our opinions on circumstances, which may easily deceive us.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

If, on the other hand, 1 has a direct influence on 3 as well as on 2, that influence should be exerted even when 2 is dropped out; and a person familiar with the first list ought to learn the second one more rapidly than otherwise he could.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

It was persisted in not only until, but long after, [Pg 16] the oppressed had obtained a power enabling them often to take conspicuous vengeance; and on the Continent much of it continued to the time of the French Revolution, though in England the earlier and better organization of the democratic classes put an end to it sooner, by establishing equal laws and free national institutions.
— from The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

antic in itself, is indifferently supported by external evidence; and the history of Spain will suggest some motives of interest and policy more congenial to the breast of a veteran statesman.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The passions of princes have often been licentious and destructive; but this well-known tale, romantic in itself, is indifferently supported by external evidence; and the history of Spain will suggest some motive of interest and policy more congenial to the breast of a veteran statesman.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The earl of Godolphin affirmed, that the trade to Spain was such a trifle as deserved no consideration; and that it would continually diminish until it should be entirely engrossed by the French merchants.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II. by T. (Tobias) Smollett

"To put a value on an article," says Say, "is to DECLARE that it should be ESTIMATED equally with some other designated article. . . . . .
— from System of Economical Contradictions; Or, The Philosophy of Misery by P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon

He is succeeded by," etc., etc.
— from The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen

Very different in style, but equally effective in their way, were some simple ditties sung with great taste and feeling by Dorothy Forster.
— from Preston Fight; or, The Insurrection of 1715 by William Harrison Ainsworth

And as dear Mrs. Pennington says, "no matter how soon, it should be either ended or mended."
— from The Intimate Letters of Hester Piozzi and Penelope Pennington, 1788-1821 by Penelope Pennington

The groining of the choir and transepts is sexpartite, but everywhere else it is quadripartite; and the ribs, which are very bold in their dimensions, are generally moulded, but over the crossing are enriched with the dog-tooth ornament.
— from Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain by George Edmund Street

The manor of Spotland was granted by Henry VIII., to Thomas Holt, who was knighted in Scotland, by Edward, Earl of Hertford, in the thirty-sixth year of the reign of that monarch.
— from Lancashire Sketches Third Edition by Edwin Waugh

The Ignoble Savages The Ignoble Savages By EVELYN E. SMITH Illustrated by DILLON [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Galaxy Science Fiction March 1957.
— from The Ignoble Savages by Evelyn E. Smith