Where the picture bears him no resemblance, at least was not intended for him, it never so much as conveys our thought to him:
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

If so, the non-sensational part of our perception will be illusory, i.e. it will supply qualities which the object in question does not in fact have.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

H2 anchor Facing West from California's Shores Facing west from California's shores, Inquiring, tireless, seeking what is yet unfound, I, a child, very old, over waves, towards the house of maternity, the land of migrations, look afar, Look off the shores of my Western sea, the circle almost circled; For starting westward from Hindustan, from the vales of Kashmere, From Asia, from the north, from the God, the sage, and the hero, From the south, from the flowery peninsulas and the spice islands, Long having wander'd since, round the earth having wander'd, Now I face home again, very pleas'd and joyous, (But where is what I started for so long ago?
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Socrates is necessarily ironical; for he has to withdraw from the received opinions and beliefs of mankind.
— from Phaedrus by Plato

Hammer is not, I find, here copying from Wassáf, and I have not been able to procure a thorough search of the work of Rashiduddin, which probably was his authority.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

And the young man—that's the Mr. Lammeter as now is, for he'd niver a sister—soon begun to court Miss Osgood, that's the sister o' the Mr. Osgood as now is, and a fine handsome lass she was—eh, you can't think—they pretend this young lass is like her, but that's the way wi' people as don't know what come before 'em.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

'I. If you can convince me that the hated parson has had no encouragement from you in his addresses; and that you have no inclination for him in preference to me; then I will offer the following proposals to you, which I will punctually make good.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

And then, “Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her!'”
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

44 November 5th, as if to reassure General MacArthur that he and the General understand each other and that the Taft cotemporaneous nonsense is not going to be allowed to interfere with more serious business, Secretary Root, through the Adjutant-General, sends this cable message: Secretary of War directs no instructions from here be allowed interfere or impede progress your military operations which he expects you force to successful conclusion.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

"Well, we can say no more now; I feel how necessary it was, I should be roused from my false security, and that you have acted as a true friend in undertaking, what I know, must have been so painful a task.
— from Kate Vernon: A Tale. Vol. 2 (of 3) by Mrs. Alexander

"Nothing is further," he has said in his preface, from his "wish than to pander to any petty national vanity," his sole desire being to assist in creating a modest and reasonable self-respect.
— from Americanisms and Briticisms; with other essays on other isms by Brander Matthews

Late at night I found him sorting and reading papers.
— from The Morgesons: A Novel by Elizabeth Stoddard

the following narrative is from his own lips, and nearly in his own words.
— from Memoirs of the life, exile, and conversations of the Emperor Napoleon. (Vol. IV) by Las Cases, Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné, comte de

This it was that made her criticism so trenchant, her contempt of pretence so quick and stern, her speech so naked in frankness, her gaze so searching, her whole attitude so alert.
— from Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II by Margaret Fuller

Conflans had, in addition to his five hundred Europeans, six thousand native infantry, five hundred native cavalry, and thirty guns.
— from With Clive in India; Or, The Beginnings of an Empire by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Man enjoins himself to be necessarily in fault: he is not very discreet to cut out his own duty by the measure of another being than his own.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Mr. Sargent handles these elements with a special feeling for them, and they borrow a kind of noble intensity from his brush.
— from Picture and Text 1893 by Henry James