Now, however, unfortunately, men were not of one mind as to the exact idea signified.
— from Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope

Finding that, throughout the scope of our enquiries, event follows event in never-failing uniformity, and finding moreover (some might add) that this experience is supported or even demanded by a tendency or law of our nature (it does not matter here how we describe it), we may come to regard this as the one fundamental principle on which all our enquiries should rest.
— from The Logic of Chance, 3rd edition An Essay on the Foundations and Province of the Theory of Probability, With Especial Reference to Its Logical Bearings and Its Application to Moral and Social Science and to Statistics by John Venn

There were a few cheers for the King's speech, but most of the multitude accepted the tremendous event in solemn silence.
— from The Rock of the Lion by Molly Elliot Seawell

It is an error the novice frequently makes and that the expert is sometimes guilty of.
— from The Boy Scouts of Woodcraft Camp by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess

The only difference is that this lady is better dressed, more ably taught than either; is she to be censured because she has the talent and industry to do well, that which they have neither the courage, energy, nor ability to perform? Original Original CHAPTER III.
— from The Dance of Death by William (Author of The dance of death) Herman

(73) So also the sign of the shadow going back was revealed to Isaiah according to his understanding; that is, as proceeding from a going backwards of the sun; for he, too, thought that the sun moves and that the earth is still; of parhelia he perhaps never even dreamed.
— from Theologico-Political Treatise — Part 1 by Benedictus de Spinoza

While on the subject of American orchestras, I may add that their excellence is scarcely suspected by English amateurs.
— from The Mapleson Memoirs, 1848-1888, vol II by James Henry Mapleson

It offers not any meretricious attraction to the eye; it submits itself, wholly, to the understanding, and to the heart.
— from The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 by James Harrison

Is it probable, then, that while the process displayed in the evolution of humanity at large is repeated alike by the infant and the man, a reverse process must be followed during the period between infancy and manhood? and that too, even in so simple a thing as learning the properties of objects?
— from Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Herbert Spencer