For similar reasons a thing is said to be impossible; namely, inasmuch as its essence or definition involves a contradiction, or because no external cause is granted, which is conditioned to produce such an effect; but a thing can in no respect be called contingent, save in relation to the imperfection of our knowledge.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

And though the prophet Jeremiah was in prison, he did not rest, but cried out, and proclaimed aloud, and exhorted the multitude to open their gates, and admit the king of Babylon, for that if they did so, they should be preserved, and their whole families; but if they did not so, they should be destroyed; and he foretold, that if any one staid in the city, he should certainly perish by one of these ways,—either be consumed by the famine, or slain by the enemy's sword; but that if he would flee to the enemy, he should escape death.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Fate in the Body: Storing; Content in Blood; Excretion; Fate in Gastro-intestinal Tract; Effect on Digestive Processes 74 Irregularities of Action; Effect on Growth CHAPTER IV Pathology 81 ( a ) Gross: General Appearance; Hemorrhages; Anasarca; Heart; Lungs; Alimentary Tract and its Glands; Urinary Tract; Lymph Nodes; Organs of Internal Secretion; Brain and Spinal Cord; Bones; ( b ) Microscopic: Skin; Muscles; Blood-vessels; Lungs; Heart; Intestinal Tract and its Glands; Kidney; Adrenals; Pancreas; Thymus; Central Nervous System; Peripheral Nerves; Retina; Bones CHAPTER V Experimental Scurvy 111 Historical Review Pathogenesis 116 Pathology: Effect on the Fœtus; Scurvy in the Monkey; Microscopic Pathology; Bones; Teeth; Nerves; Blood Vessels; Interpretation of Bacteria in the Tissues
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

I., p. 361) says, “One felt that the fallacies were not right, but could not point out the mistakes.”
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

It was in consequence of this defeat that they abandoned their town on Nottely river, below Coosa creek, near the present Blairsville, Georgia, their old fields being at once occupied by Cherokee, who moved over from their settlements on the head of Savannah river.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

The state being freed from this (which was attended) with a very general spread of illness, though very few deaths, the year of pestilence was followed by a scarcity of grain, the cultivation of the land having been neglected, as usually happens, Marcus Papirius Atratinus, Caius Nautius Rutilus being consuls.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

The first analogy is worthless because there is no relation between color and perfume; the second is of great value because such a relation does exist between rain and clouds.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

their number reduced by careful search for definite laws.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

She had, in conversation with Albert, mentioned casually that Werther would not return before Christmas Eve; and soon afterward Albert went on horseback to see a person in the neighbourhood, with whom he had to transact some business which would detain him all night.
— from The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Stockholm (Sweden) Telecommunications: numerous submarine cables with most between continental Europe and the UK, North America and the UK, and in the Mediterranean; numerous direct links across Atlantic via INTELSAT satellite network Note: Kiel Canal and Saint Lawrence Seaway are two important waterways *Australia, Geography Location: Oceania, between Indonesia and New Zealand Map references: Southeast Asia, Oceania, Antarctic Region, Standard Time Zones of the World Area: total area: 7,686,850 km2 land area: 7,617,930 km2 comparative area: slightly smaller than the US note: includes Macquarie Island Land boundaries: 0 km Coastline: 25,760 km Maritime claims: contiguous zone: 12 nm continental shelf: 200 m (depth) or to depth of exploitation exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm territorial sea: 12 nm International disputes: territorial claim in Antarctica (Australian Antarctic Territory) Climate: generally arid to semiarid; temperate in south and east; tropical in north Terrain: mostly low plateau with deserts; fertile plain in southeast Natural resources: bauxite, coal, iron ore, copper, tin, silver, uranium, nickel, tungsten, mineral sands, lead, zinc, diamonds, natural gas, petroleum Land use: arable land: 6% permanent crops: 0% meadows and pastures: 58% forest and woodland: 14% other: 22% Irrigated land: 18,800 km2 (1989 est.)
— from The 1993 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Africa, Standard Time Zones of the World Area: total area: 267,670 sq km land area: 257,670 sq km comparative area: slightly smaller than Colorado Land boundaries: total 2,551 km, Cameroon 298 km, Congo 1,903 km, Equatorial Guinea 350 km Coastline: 885 km Maritime claims: contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm territorial sea: 12 nm International disputes: maritime boundary dispute with Equatorial Guinea because of disputed sovereignty over islands in Corisco Bay Climate: tropical; always hot, humid Terrain: narrow coastal plain; hilly interior; savanna in east and south Natural resources: petroleum, manganese, uranium, gold, timber, iron ore Land use: arable land: 1% permanent crops: 1% meadows and pastures: 18% forest and woodland: 78% other: 2% Irrigated land: NA sq km Environment: current issues: deforestation; poaching natural hazards: NA international agreements: party to - Endangered Species, Marine Dumping, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber, Wetlands; signed, but not ratified - Biodiversity, Climate Change, Law of the Sea @Gabon, People Population: 1,139,006 (July 1994 est.)
— from The 1994 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

During the three or four days between his return from Brow and the end, his mind, when not roused by conversation, wandered in delirium.
— from Robert Burns by John Campbell Shairp

This genial intrusion into sacred privacy was not resented, but Charles found it inconvenient to confide.
— from Charles Lewis Cocke, Founder of Hollins College by William Robert Lee Smith

Five minutes later, Uncle Ambrose Thompson as he was now called by almost everybody in Pennyroyal, with every trace of lamentation removed clean from his face, was walking toward [160] the new red brick church, having Miner's arm through his after their custom of more than thirty years.
— from The Loves of Ambrose by Margaret Vandercook

He rowed that afternoon as he had never rowed before, carrying with him all along the stream the raucous shouts of the members of his college who tore along the tow-path almost demented with enthusiasm, firing pistols, turning rattles and screaming "St. John's!
— from The Sins of the Children: A Novel by Cosmo Hamilton

Marlowe did not reply, but continued a rapt listener while his friend went on with increasing ardor: “In act II of Titus Andronicus you write of the golden sun galloping ‘the zodiac in his glistening coach,’ as though in your ears still rattled ‘ugly darkness with her rusty coach,’ as you have described the night in act V of the first part of Tamburlaine 242 and again in Edward II.
— from It Was Marlowe: A Story of the Secret of Three Centuries by Wilbur Gleason Zeigler

You strip him and then scoff at his nakedness.” Padre Fernandez did not reply, but continued to pace about feverishly, as though very much agitated.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

To this he made no reply, but casting his eyes round the house, says, "but can you imagine that God Almighty will condescend to notice any worship which is performed in such a place as this? Solomon thought that he could not make the holy Temple, which he dedicated to the worship of the Deity, fine enough for the purpose; therefore to suppose such condescension as you seem to expect in the Deity is to affront him."
— from Memorials of the Independent Churches in Northamptonshire with biographical notices of their pastors, and some account of the puritan ministers who laboured in the county. by Thomas Coleman

Those were not really bad chickens, and in a few days they were much better.
— from Dwellers in Arcady: The Story of an Abandoned Farm by Albert Bigelow Paine