This is corroborated by psychoanalytic experiences, where there is much occasion to point out the importance of names in unconscious thought activity [74] .
— from Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud

The vice of the parents or the impulse of nature, which is a rough counsellor, may be the cause.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

This is the species of the sublime for which the sight of the boundless prairies of the interior of North America is celebrated.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

The honest part of the inhabitants of Neuchatel, full of indignation at the treatment I received, and the manoeuvres of which I was the victim, held the ministers in execration, clearly perceiving they were obedient to a foreign impulse, and the vile agents of people, who, in making them act, kept themselves concealed; they were moreover afraid my case would have dangerous consequences, and be made a precedent for the purpose of establishing a real inquisition.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

He doubled the point of the Isle of Notre Dame, and made for the landing-place of the Port an Foin.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

"In pure Mathematics—though their nature, as a work of intellectual combination, framed by the highest efforts of human intelligence, renders them incapable of receiving aids from observations of external 291 phenomena, or the invention of new instruments, yet they are, at this moment, abundant in the promise of new applications; and many of the departments of philosophical enquiry which appeared formerly to bear no relation to quantity, weight, figure, or number, as I shall more particularly mention hereafter, are now brought under the dominion of that sublime science, which is, as it were, the animating principle of all the other sciences."
— from The Life of Sir Humphrey Davy, Bart. LL.D., Volume 2 (of 2) by John Ayrton Paris

This disposes of the principle of the imitation of nature in art: a point on which it is impossible to come to an understanding while a distinction is left thus abstract,—in other words, so long as the natural is only taken in its externality, not as the “characteristic” meaningful nature-form which is significant of spirit.
— from Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Nevertheless, a belief, whether well grounded or not, in a common racial origin is one of the root principles of the idea of nationality.
— from The War and Democracy by John Dover Wilson

If we only would come down a peg or two in our notions, in accordance with our waning fortunes, happiness would be always within our reach.
— from Olla Podrida by Frederick Marryat

Whereas section 17 of the act of August 28, 1894, entitled "An act to reduce taxation, to provide revenue for the Government, and for other purposes," prohibits "the importation of neat cattle and the hides of neat cattle from any foreign country into the United States;" and Whereas it is provided by the act of Congress approved March 2, 1895, entitled "An act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1896"— That whenever the Secretary of Agriculture shall certify to the President of the United States what countries or parts of countries are free from contagious or infectious diseases of domestic animals, and that neat cattle and hides can be imported from such countries without danger to the domestic animals of the United States, the President of the United States may suspend the prohibition of the importation of neat cattle and hides in the manner provided by law.
— from A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 2: Grover Cleveland by Grover Cleveland

[61] "Proceedings of the Institution of Naval Architects," vol.
— from Two Centuries of Shipbuilding by the Scotts at Greenock by Scotts' Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd.

The odd aspect of Johnston, joined to his whimsical method, so in keeping, as before remarked, with the creations of Boz, peculiarly fitted him for the apt portrayal of those idiosyncrasies of nature and temperament shadowed forth by characters in many of the old farces, in which he often appeared, those pieces being quite the fashion in the days of which we are writing.
— from William E. Burton: Actor, Author, and Manager A Sketch of his Career with Recollections of his Performances by William L. (William Linn) Keese

The French have possession of the island of New Caledonia, which is not very far from here, and is a convenient place of rendezvous for them.
— from Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia From Melbourne To The Gulf Of Carpentaria by William John Wills

To illustrate my meaning: true ornament seems equally to partake of the idea of utility and superfluity, and every sentiment of taste seems equally to partake of the idea of novelty and of custom; for, were the object perfectly familiar to us, we should feel no degree of admiration, without which we could feel no sentiment of taste; and, were it totally new, unlike any thing we had ever seen, it would excite wonder instead of admiration, which is a sentiment as distant from taste as the love of fame is from the love of honour.
— from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Taste, and of the Origin of our Ideas of Beauty, etc. by Frances Reynolds

Congress directed the Governors of the States to call out 80,000 militia, if necessary, and it appropriated $2,000,000 for the purchase of the Island of New Orleans and the adjacent lands.
— from Thomas Jefferson, a Character Sketch by Edward Sylvester Ellis