And, finally, although such be the ground of our opinions, I remarked that a plurality of suffrages is no guarantee of truth where it is at all of difficult discovery, as in such cases it is much more likely that it will be found by one than by many.
— from Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences by René Descartes

But, inasmuch as one part of space is not given, but only limited, by and through another, we must also consider every limited space as conditioned, in so far as it presupposes some other space as the condition of its limitation, and so on.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

115 The grid plans, in town and country, as Bradford has pointed out, show, if not genius, then strong determination and great powers of organization.
— from The Mute Stones Speak: The Story of Archaeology in Italy by Paul Lachlan MacKendrick

The proportion of silver in native gold varies between these limits in other localities.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume II by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

Compound powder of scammony is now generally sold for it.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

The people originally settled in neighborhood groups of a single nationality rather than around the particular mills in which they were employed.
— from The Cost of Living Among Wage-Earners Fall River, Massachusetts, October, 1919, Research Report Number 22, November, 1919 by National Industrial Conference Board

"Poor old soul, I never gave her any reason to think that I believed her preachings although she has come faithfully every week to visit me.
— from In Kali's Country: Tales from Sunny India by Emily Churchill Thompson Sheets

They would exist just the same if they had not a single soldier, and the military power of Spain is not greater than that of one of these small countries; the poverty of the country and the scanty population oblige us to be humble.
— from The Shadow of the Cathedral by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

He to stand among those women as a person of secondary importance, not greeted, not flattered, not smiled upon!
— from A Charming Fellow, Volume III by Frances Eleanor Trollope

At the same time the portrait of Saul is not given at full length, like those of the wicked kings, partly perhaps because the chronicler had little interest for anything before the time of David and the Temple, but partly, we may hope, because the record of David's affection for Saul kept alive a kindly feeling towards the founder of the monarchy.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Books of Chronicles by W. H. (William Henry) Bennett

The proportion of silver is not, generally speaking, of the value of one farthing in half a crown; although there are certainly some exceptions, as counterfeit sixpences have been lately discovered, some with a mixture, and some wholly silver; but even these did not yield the makers less than from 50 to 80 per cent.
— from A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their Prevention by Patrick Colquhoun