Now we cannot help believing what we see to be true, but we can help doing what we see to be right or wise, and in fact often do what we know to be wrong or unwise: thus we are forced to notice the existence in us of irrational springs of action, conflicting with our knowledge and preventing its practical realisation: and the very imperfectness of the connexion between our practical judgment and our will impels us to seek for more precise knowledge as to the nature of that connexion.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

I have used the narration chiefly for the purpose of giving a continuity to the work, in part for the sake of the miscellaneous reflections suggested to me by particular events, but still more as introductory to a statement of my principles in Politics, Religion, and Philosophy, and an application of the rules, deduced from philosophical principles, to poetry and criticism.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Let them therefore assert as many things as ever they please in physical reasonings and disputations.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

To come down to the bed-rock, it's just this: Tennessee, thar, has played it pretty rough and expensive-like on a stranger, and on this yer camp.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

The logical connection of the present with his immediate departure and the absolute necessity of visiting them for that purpose in pouring rain at midnight was not made clear.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Proclaim it, Provost, round about the city, If any woman wrong'd by this lewd fellow- As I have heard him swear himself there's one Whom he begot with child, let her appear,
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The voting papers, and all the elements of the calculation, would be placed in public repositories, accessible to all whom they concerned; and if any one who had obtained the quota was not duly returned, it would be in his power easily to prove it.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

NEUT. altus (alto-) alt ior alt ius alt issimus -a -um lîber (lîbero-) lîber ior lîber ius lîber rimus -a -um pulcher (pulchro-) pulchr ior pulchr ius pulcher rimus -a -um audâx (audâci-) audâc ior audâc ius audâc issimus -a -um brevis (brevi-) brev ior brev ius brev issimus -a -um âcer (âcri-) âcrior
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

The Romans borrowed from all, besides their own gods, which were majorum and minorum gentium , as Varro holds, certain and uncertain; some celestial, select, and great ones, others indigenous and Semi-dei, Lares, Lemures, Dioscuri, Soteres, and Parastatae, dii tutelares amongst the Greeks: gods of all sorts, for all functions; some for the land, some for sea; some for heaven, some for hell; some for passions, diseases, some for birth, some for weddings, husbandry, woods, waters, gardens, orchards, &c. All actions and offices, Pax-Quies, Salus, Libertas, Felicitas, Strenua, Stimula, Horta, Pan, Sylvanus, Priapus, Flora, Cloacina, Stercutius, Febris, Pallor, Invidia, Protervia, Risus, Angerona, Volupia, Vacuna, Viriplaca, Veneranda, Pales, Neptunia, Doris, kings, emperors, valiant men that had done any good offices for them, they did likewise canonise and adore for gods, and it was usually done, usitatum apud antiquos , as [6507]
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

NEUT. altus (alto-) alt ior alt ius alt issimus -a -um līber (lībero-) līber ior līber ius līber rimus -a -um pulcher (pulchro-) pulchr ior pulchr ius pulcher rimus -a -um audāx (audāci-) audāc ior audāc ius audāc issimus -a -um brevis (brevi-) brev ior brev ius brev issimus -a -um ācer (ācri-) ācrior ācrius ācer rimus -a -um 474.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

There is no certainty of any detail except the certainty that is had by performing every part of the work as experience has taught that it should be performed if perfect results are to be attained.
— from Concrete Construction: Methods and Costs by Halbert Powers Gillette

If we find truth in broken fragments through the ages, it may be set down as an incontrovertible fact that it originated at the fountain, and was given to philosophers, inventors, patriots, reformers, and prophets by the inspiration of God.
— from Gospel Doctrine: Selections from the Sermons and Writings of Joseph F. Smith by Joseph F. (Joseph Fielding) Smith

The aspect of that false repentance which merely seeks exemption from punishment, is painful; repentance, as the pain arising from the irreparable forfeiture of innocence, is susceptible of a truly tragic portraiture.
— from Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by August Wilhelm von Schlegel

It was a grove of orange and lemon trees, planted in parallel rows, and so thickly as to form an intricate green roof, under which one enjoyed the coolness, shade, and perfume of paradise.
— from Morocco, Its People and Places by Edmondo De Amicis

Among the medical properties of caffein are the following, "in doses of three to five grains, it produces a peculiar wakefulness—after a dose of twelve grains, it produces intense physical restlessness and mental anxiety.
— from Joseph Smith as Scientist: A Contribution to Mormon Philosophy by John Andreas Widtsoe