In general, then, as we have shown above, no etiological explanation can ever give us more than the necessarily determined position in time and space of a particular manifestation, its necessary appearance there, according to a fixed law; but the inner nature of everything that appears in this way remains wholly inexplicable, and is presupposed by every etiological explanation, and merely indicated by the names, force, or law of nature, or, if we are speaking of action, character or will.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

C. Gracchi frumentaria magna largitio; exhauriebat igitur aerarium; modica M. Octavi et rei publicae tolerabilis et plebi necessaria; ergo et civibus et rei publicae salutaris.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

why the belief in black magic flourishes, why no empirical evidence can ever dispel it, and why the sorcerer no less than the victim, has confidence in his own powers.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

A new election ensued; Charles Edwin and Lord Perceval were returned without opposition.
— from A History of Parliamentary Elections and Electioneering in the Old Days Showing the State of Political Parties and Party Warfare at the Hustings and in the House of Commons from the Stuarts to Queen Victoria by Joseph Grego

From this belief we get the adjectives—which we still use without any thought of their origin— sanguine ("hopeful"), phlegmatic ("indifferent and not easily excited"), choleric ("easily roused to anger"), and melancholy ("inclined to sadness").
— from Stories That Words Tell Us by Elizabeth (Elizabeth Speakman) O'Neill

; valerian odor; styptic taste.—Tonic, Nervine, Emmenagogue.— Uses: Anemia or chlorosis, with hysteria or nervous exhaustion; epilepsy, chorea, etc.— Dose: 3—15 grn. Iron and Ammonium Citrate Merck.—U.S.P.—Brown Scales.
— from Merck's 1899 Manual of the Materia Medica by Merck & Co.

Nearly every Eskimo counted "ein, zwei, drei."
— from A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell by Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir

no explanation ever came, except, indeed, that afterwards her character, put en evidence upon a score of occasions, too satisfactorily explained everything.
— from The Collected Writing of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. II by Thomas De Quincey

I do not believe that people’s natures ever entirely change, even if circumstances do affect one for a time.
— from The Camp Fire Girls on the Field of Honor by Margaret Vandercook

This was the first great deterioration in Percy's mind—a mind which ought to have made him a very different being from what he became, but which no vice, no evil example, could ever entirely pervert.
— from Godolphin, Volume 1. by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

''Oly scissors: they're in for a lively time if old Nutcrackers 'ere ever catches 'em, 'ey?' “Well, we went over the schooner and examined everything, but there wa'n't nothing of any value nowheres.
— from Cape Cod Stories by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

Upon issuing thence, all black and charred, they were plunged into the river, where they stood immersed to different depths—to the knees, navel, eyes, eyebrows, crown, etc.—in proportion to the degree of their guilt.
— from An Irish Precursor of Dante A Study on the Vision of Heaven and Hell ascribed to the Eighth-century Irish Saint Adamnán, with Translation of the Irish Text by Charles Stuart Boswell

This was the first great deterioration in Percy’s mind—a mind which ought to have made him a very different being from what he became, but which no vice, no evil example, could ever entirely pervert.
— from Godolphin, Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron