If we ask, for example, why any portion of space empirically known to us contains more matter than any similar adjacent portion, physical science can only answer by stating (along with certain laws of change) some antecedent position of the parts of matter which needs explanation no less than the present; and however far back we carry our ascertainment of such antecedent positions, the one with which we leave off seems as arbitrary as that with which we started.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Full-length portraits of several English kings, Charles II.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

The last day of our captivity was the most tedious portion of the whole, for the prospect of speedy emancipation kept us in a constant state of irritation.
— from The City of the Sultan; and Domestic Manners of the Turks, in 1836, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Miss (Julia) Pardoe

The truth of the whole matter is that Spencer is wholly at sea the moment he touches political economy, and in place of some elementary knowledge on that subject, we have the obsolete theories of the Manchester School proclaimed in the name of physiology.
— from Evolution Social and Organic by Arthur M. (Arthur Morrow) Lewis

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— from Historical Epochs of the French Revolution With The Judgment And Execution Of Louis XVI., King Of France And A List Of The Members Of The National Convention, Who Voted For And Against His Death by Henry Goudemetz

[Kampelo KALUA, president]; People Democratic Party or PDP [Rolf PATEL]; Social Democratic Party or SDP [Eston KAKHOME, president]
— from The 1997 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Ceridwen, seeing that he should not be received amongst gentlemen because of his ugliness, unless he should be page 235 p. 235 possessed of some excellent knowledge or strength . . . .
— from Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales by Elias Owen

Could we reach the moon, we should think of reducing it to a province of some European kingdom.
— from Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II by Horace Walpole