That we need, in such cases, correct individualization of the witness is self-evident.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

If I were to be put on the rack now, I should certainly cry out.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[352] Now its sacred character can come from only one cause: that is that it represents the totem materially.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

No icy stare could come out of eyes like that; it got caught and lost in the soft eyelashes, and the persons stared at merely thought they were being regarded with a flattering and exquisite attentiveness.
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

Now, I have already said in my treatise on Morals (if I may here make any use of what I have there shown), that happiness consists in the energy and perfect practice of virtue; and this not relatively, but simply; I mean by relatively, what is necessary in some certain circumstances; by simply, what is good and fair in itself: of the first sort are just punishments, and restraints in a just cause; for they arise from virtue and are necessary, and on that account are virtuous; though it is more desirable that neither any state nor any individual should stand in need of them; but those actions which are intended either to procure honour or wealth are simply good; the others eligible only to remove an evil; these, on the contrary, are the foundation and means of relative good.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

I thought it all extremely beautiful, and made up my mind to sleep among the hops that night: imagining some cheerful companionship in the long perspectives of poles, with the graceful leaves twining round them.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

— N. identity, sameness; coincidence, coalescence; convertibility; equality &c. 27; selfness[obs3], self, oneself; identification.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

The name is so closely connected with the person that even the speaking of it may exercise a magical influence upon him.
— from Elements of Folk Psychology Outline of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind by Wilhelm Max Wundt

This applies pre-eminently to the philosophical-religious patrimony of the past; no error could be more fatal than to presume that each generation must start from the beginning, that the foundations, which have safely supported human life for centuries, must be obsolete because human nature is suddenly considered changed.
— from The Freedom of Science by Josef Donat

On the outside of the stalls of the choir towards the north is some curious carving; but I should scarcely have been induced to have spoken of the building, were it not for one of the paintings, which, however uninteresting as a piece of art, appears to possess some historical value.
— from Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 2 by Dawson Turner

No; I cannot believe that his sensible and independent nature is so changed; circumstances never had any power over the nobility of his soul.
— from Thaddeus of Warsaw by Jane Porter

I will not positively say, that there is any form of polity which may not, in some conceivable circumstances, be the best possible.
— from Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

With the time which they devote to these charitable offices, together with their numerous devotional exercises, and the care which their houses and families require, it cannot be said that the life of a Mexican Señora is an idle one; nor, in such cases, can it be considered a useless one.
— from Life in Mexico by Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis) Calderón de la Barca

I had just found my fourth yellow palm warbler’s nest, all lined with feathers, and with its four eggs like flecked pink pearls, the nest itself so cunningly concealed in a mass of moss and marsh-grass that the discovery of each one seemed a miracle that would never happen again.
— from Everyday Adventures by Samuel Scoville

NA domestic: NA international: submarine cable connectivity to Guernsey and UK Radio broadcast stations: AM NA, FM 1, shortwave 0 (1998) Radios: NA Television broadcast stations: 2 (1997) Televisions: NA Internet country code: .je
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency