My memory, indeed, informs me of the existence of many objects; but then this information extends not beyond their past existence, nor do either my senses or memory give any testimony to the continuance of their being.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

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— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

The sun does not shine for my [130] physical eyes, nor does the lightning flash, nor do the trees turn green in the spring; but they have not therefore ceased to exist, any more than the landscape is annihilated when you turn your back on it.
— from The World I Live In by Helen Keller

mi cliente, digo, pretende que usted restablezca el antiguo cauce de las aguas, para evitar nuevos desperfectos y que le indemnice de los 15 perjuicios que por indolencia del propietario superior ha sufrido.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

That rare and elegant luxury was censured, in the reign of Tiberius, by the gravest of the Romans; and Pliny, in affected though forcible language, has condemned the thirst of gain, which explores the last confines of the earth, for the pernicious purpose of exposing to the public eye naked draperies and transparent matrons.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Nubergensis relates it, to fortify himself, and maintain his greatness, propinquarum suarum connubiis, plurimos sibi potentes et nobiles devincire curavit , married his poor kinswomen (which came forth of Normandy by droves) to the chiefest nobles of the land, and they were glad to accept of such matches, fair or foul, for themselves, their sons, nephews, &
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

= Vous préférez signer de votre prénom, plutôt que de l'habituel prénom et nom de famille.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

And straightway would they join battle and essay the conflict, but that ruddy Phoebus even now dips his weary coursers in the Iberian flood, and night draws on over the fading day.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

I cannot have prayed well enough, I am not pious enough, no doubt."
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 2 by Émile Zola

Never, by any chance, did she allude to past events, nor did the name of M. de Fosseux ever escape her lips.
— from The International Magazine, Volume 4, No. 5, December 1851 by Various

The fact was, that Halbert was rather smitten with Hester, and had made up his mind to escort her home on this particular evening, never doubting that his escort would be thankfully accepted.
— from Brave and Bold; Or, The Fortunes of Robert Rushton by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

The peaceable Epicurus never disturbed Greece; his philosophy was publicly taught in Athens during many centuries; he was in incredible favour with his countrymen, who caused statues to be erected to him; he had a prodigious number of friends, and his school subsisted for a very long period.
— from The System of Nature, or, the Laws of the Moral and Physical World. Volume 2 by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'

Gregory on the contrary declares that even “a lie told for a pious object and for the sake of peace” was a sin (“ illud peccatum esse non dubitaveris, in sacerdotibus quasi sacrilegium coniicias .”
— from Luther, vol. 4 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

[233] I presume that 'portum Lucini' is an error for the Lucrine harbour; but there is an allusion which I do not understand in the following passage: 'Simul etiam portubus junctis, qui ad illa loca antiquitus pertinebant, et nunc diversorum usurpatione suggeruntur invasi?'
— from The Letters of Cassiodorus Being a Condensed Translation of the Variae Epistolae of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator by Senator Cassiodorus

The English minister, a man of the highest personal worth and probity, entertained no doubt that peace was to have its usual effect, of restoring all the ordinary amicable intercourse betwixt France and England; and that, in matters concerning their mutual allies, and the state of the European republic in general, the latter country, on sheathing the sword, had retained the right of friendly counsel and remonstrance.
— from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume II. by Walter Scott

The last chapter of the Cyropædia of Xenophon (viii, 20, 21-26) expresses strenuously the like conviction, of the military feebleness and disorganization of the Persian empire, not defensible without Grecian aid.
— from History of Greece, Volume 09 (of 12) by George Grote

MATÉRIAUX pour l’Histoire primitive et naturelle de l’Homme.
— from Picture-Writing of the American Indians Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1888-89, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1893, pages 3-822 by Garrick Mallery