Plato's doctrine on this subject is contained in the following words:—'The earth, which is our nurse, compacted (OR revolving) around the pole which is extended through the universe, he made to be the guardian and artificer of night and day, first and eldest of gods that are in the interior of heaven'.
— from Timaeus by Plato

I shall venture to affirm as a general proposition which admits of no exception, that the knowledge of this relation is not, in any instance, attained by reasonings a priori; but arises entirely from experience, when we find that any particular objects are constantly conjoined with each other; ... nor can our reason, unassisted by experience, ever draw any inference concerning real existence and matter of fact.”
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Crossing Stephen’s, that is, my Green, remembered that his countrymen and not mine had invented what Cranly the other night called our religion.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

For it is a necessary rule of the speculative use of reason that we must not overlook natural causes, or refuse to listen to the teaching of experience, for the sake of deducing what we know and perceive from something that transcends all our knowledge.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Therefore the feeling of the Sublime in nature is respect for our own destination, which by a certain subreption we attribute to an Object of nature (conversion of respect for the Idea of humanity in our own subject into respect for the Object).
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

The universe is composed of nine circles, or rather spheres, one of which is the heavenly one, and is exterior to all the rest, which it embraces; being itself the Supreme God, and bounding and containing the whole.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Such is the caprice of the world in general, that whatever bears the face of novelty captivates, or rather bewitches, the imagination, and confounds the ideas of reason and common sense.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

They stood and spoke in reverent guise To Ráma with exulting cries: “O noblest child of Raghu, see, Thy ministers and thralls are we.”
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

cutting body, 144 , 145 , 278 ; in worship, 153 , 177 Syphilis, 76 , 243 Tāli, 46 , 47 , 48 , 51 , 143 , 153 , 158 , 166 , 195 , 297 [ 320 ] Tamarind, 119 , 154 Teeth, extraction, 257 –60 Telli, 81 Temple car, 53 , 114 , 144 , 222 –3, 297 ; festival, 142 Terminalia tomentosa , 36 , 304 Tēyyambādi, 128 Thanda Pulayan, 246 Thelyphonus (whip-scorpion), 105 Thorns fixed to door, 296 ; lying and sitting on, 145 ; stuck into effigies, 120 , 251 , 252 , 254 ; to catch earth spirit, 243 Thread, sacred, 194 —— (string), charm, 193 ; for tying yantram, 220 ; movement as omen, 15 , 41 ; wound round ant-hill, 135 –6 Thulabhāram ceremony, 171 –2 Thunder, 19 Tiger, 14 , 57 , 74 –6, 189 , 260 , 261 , 262 , 280 Tīpu Sultan, 44 –5, 101 , 188 Tirupati (Tirumala), 55 , 137 , 141 , 143 , 148 , 156 –9, 161 , 168 –9 Tiyan, 46 , 82 , 128 , 162 –3, 246 Toad, 100 Tobacco, 20 , 27 , 178 , 208 , 250 , 259 Toda, 141 , 210 , 233 , 234 , 279 Toddy, 186 , 187 , 200 , 251 , 252 , 253 , 262 , 263 , 287 , 295 , 299 , 302 Torch, against evil eye, 115 ; beating body, 146 ; in death ceremony, 244 ; rain ceremony, 309 ; snake ceremony, 131 ; rag torch tied to tree, 156 Tortoise, 71 , 192 Tottiyan, 14 , 28 , 94 , 260 Treading on charm, 185 , 243 , 247 , 252 , 307 ; on name cut on road, 159 ; water poured on footsteps, 51 .
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

They would often appear jejune, and might involve contradictions; but we should see the wants of the people; and if ever our connexion (which God forbid!) should be drawn closer, we could then legislate without offending national customs or religious prejudices.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Tail outlets often need constructing or reducing in size to raise the water level in the reach upstream of them.
— from Irrigation Works The Principles on Which Their Design and Working Should Be Based, with Special Details Relating to Indian Canals and Some Proposed Improvements by E. S. (Edward Skelton) Bellasis

"It was the most telling line in winning our new crop of recruits."
— from The Instant of Now by Irving E. Cox

70 To these commissioners the following joint complaint or libel bears to have been submitted on behalf of England and certain mariners of other nations, charging one Reyner Grimbald or Grimaldi, a Genoese who is known to have been at the time in command of ships in the service of France operating against the Flemings, with seizing their merchants and merchandise contrary to the treaty at Paris: 71 — Concerning the Supremacy of the Sea of England and the Right of the Office of Admiralty in the same.
— from The Sovereignty of the Sea An Historical Account of the Claims of England to the Dominion of the British Seas, and of the Evolution of the Territorial Waters by Thomas Wemyss Fulton

There is no nimbus around her head, no sign of the cross upon her breast; her hands are clasped on no crucifix or rosary.
— from Household Papers and Stories by Harriet Beecher Stowe

(d) More complete delineation of sources of nutrients to the free-flowing streams of the Basin and evaluation of methods of nutrient control or reduction.
— from The Nation's River: A report on the Potomac From the U.S. Department of the Interior by United States. Department of the Interior

M ost noble Cameron of renown, A fame of thee shall ne'er go down; S ince truth with zeal thou didst pursue, T o Zion's king loyal and true.
— from Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies by John Howie

Sir Dudley Digges, to whom Tradescant seems to have attached himself in order to obtain knowledge of the plants and other natural curiosities of Russia, was sent by King James I. to the Czar Michael Fedorowitsch, who had in the previous year despatched an embassy to the king, principally to negotiate for a loan.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 81, May 17, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

These instructions were to hold good after landing, and in one notable case of religious dissension after the arrival in Maryland, justice was meted out against the Catholic offender in a way that showed (p. 251) a disposition to observe this policy of conciliation toward Protestants at the expense of some unfairness toward Catholics.
— from The Beginners of a Nation A History of the Source and Rise of the Earliest English Settlements in America, with Special Reference to the Life and Character of the People by Edward Eggleston