This determination not only settles that particular case, but it helps fix a rule or method for deciding similar matters in the future; as the sentence of the judge on the bench both terminates that dispute and also forms a precedent for future decisions.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

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— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

But the actual undertaking of works which are brought to perfection by the hand and its manipulation is the function of those who have been specially trained to deal with a single art.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

For his own conduct, man is the final cause.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

—Language and the prejudices upon which language is based very often act as obstacles in our paths when we proceed to explore internal phenomena and impulses: as one example, we may instance the fact that there are only words to express the superlative degrees of these phenomena and impulses.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Thrand of Gata came with a great retinue, and Leif and Gille came there also, with many in their following.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Six thousand of the Goths were slaughtered without mercy in the field of Tagina.
— 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

My meaning is this: for instance, when heat and thirst are present, by drawing it the contrary way, so as to hinder it from drinking; and when hunger is present, by hindering it from eating; and in ten thousand other instances we see the soul opposing the desires of the body.
— from Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato

Mr Huskisson, as it is well known, introduced, full twenty years ago, the system of free trade, and repealed the navigation laws, in the hope of making the Northern Powers of Europe more favourable to the admission of British manufactures, and materially reduced the duties on French silks, watches, wines, and jewellery, in the hope that the Government of that country would see the expedience of making a corresponding reduction in the duties levied on our staple manufactures in the French harbours.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 by Various

The Scotch grit and zeal and powers of endurance were manifest in that first journey.
— from Sketches of Successful New Hampshire Men by Various

The prophets hold him up to us, as reigning , or exercising an oppressive and supereminent dominion, over the kings of the earth , that is, of the Western empire 206 ; as making war with the lamb, and the saints who receive not his mark in their foreheads 207 , that is, persecuting good and conscientious Christians, who refuse to wear the badge of Antichrist, and to 305 serve under him; and, as another Babylon, the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth 208 , that is, as polluted himself with the grossest idolatry, and as corrupting the nations with the same prophane worship.
— from The Works of Richard Hurd, Volume 5 (of 8) by Richard Hurd

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— from Tom Moore: An Unhistorical Romance Founded on Certain Happenings in the Life of Ireland's Greatest Poet by Theodore Burt Sayre

The publisher claims "extraordinary delicacy" for its treatment of a "difficult, perilous, and exciting situation," which is "modern in the fullest sense."
— from Moral Poison in Modern Fiction by R. Brimley (Reginald Brimley) Johnson

Heaven only knows how I arrived at the conviction that she understood me, and was fully conscious of the psychical influence which she had exerted on me in that flower-vision, and recognized in me him over whom the hostile carnation had cast a dark pall as he was striving to clasp her, who had thus risen as a planet of love in the depths of his being.
— from The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann

Since the burial of Sir Henry Irving in the Abbey, he has never been seen : though I saw him myself in the funeral cortége .
— from Masques & Phases by Robert Baldwin Ross

The Lord Jesus Christ—God manifest in the flesh—the pure and spotless Lamb—the Holy One, who knew no sin, was "made of a woman," and that woman (wondrous mystery!), having borne in her womb, and brought forth, that pure and perfect, that holy and spotless, human body, had to undergo the usual ceremonial, and accomplish the days of her purification, according to the law of Moses.
— from Notes on the Book of Leviticus by Charles Henry Mackintosh

This is effected as follows:— A very fine shallow groove is made in the flat ends of the bare wires c , c , and the platinum-silver wire is laid across in the incisions, and fixed there by means of solder.
— from Torpedoes and Torpedo Warfare Containing a Complete and Concise Account of the Rise and Progress of Submarine Warfare by Charles William Sleeman

While they were reading the advertisement, mother looked me in the face, and burst into tears.
— from Illustrated Edition of the Life and Escape of Wm. Wells Brown from American Slavery Written by Himself by William Wells Brown