It is usual with mathematicians, to pretend, that those ideas, which are their objects, are of so refined and spiritual a nature, that they fall not under the conception of the fancy, but must be comprehended by a pure and intellectual view, of which the superior faculties of the soul are alone capable.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

I do not mean to say that they should not be resorted to, for we must use every means of gaining information; but I do say that their results are small and not to be depended upon.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

And since that nature is in itself divine, all that springs from it is praiseworthy, and those acts usually regarded as sins are not to be condemned.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Enter two VERGERS, with short silver wands; next them, two SCRIBES, in the habit of doctors; after them, the ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY alone; after him, the BISHOPS OF LINCOLN, ELY, ROCHESTER, and SAINT ASAPH; next them, with some small distance, follows a GENTLEMAN bearing the purse, with the great seal, and a Cardinal's hat; then two PRIESTS, bearing each silver cross; then a GENTLEMAN USHER bareheaded, accompanied with a SERGEANT-AT-ARMS bearing a silver mace; then two GENTLEMEN bearing two great silver pillars; after them, side by side, the two CARDINALS, WOLSEY and CAMPEIUS; two NOBLEMEN with the sword and mace.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Having filled a sheet of paper, he got up, rang, and sent a note to the chief secretary of his department to look up certain necessary facts for him.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

I feel it by myself, but I know that my resources are sufficient; and now that those first giddy raptures have subsided, I have a quiet home-feeling of the blessedness of my condition.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

"No more of that; but tell me, what said this stranger?" "Thou thinkest it was really a stranger, and not thy wraith?" said John anxiously.
— from The Prince and the Page: A Story of the Last Crusade by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

They told her that the town (so they always denominate a farm–steading in that district,) had been so grievously haunted in her absence, both by Brownie and a ghost, that they were all obliged to leave [233] it; that their mother was gone all the way to Gilmanscleuch to her brother, to remain there until she saw what became of her husband; Mass John was taken away by the fairies; and old Nanny was at Riskinhope, where they were also residing and sleeping at night; that the keys of the house were to be had there, but nothing would induce Nanny to come back again to Chapelhope, or at least to remain another night under its roof.
— from The Brownie of Bodsbeck, and Other Tales (Vol. 1 of 2) by James Hogg

But if the obligations between monarchy and subjects are reciprocal, and states are not to be transmitted, like a lifeless heirloom, from hand to hand, a nation acting with unanimity must have the power of renouncing their allegiance to a sovereign who has violated his obligations to them, and of filling his place by a worthier object.
— from The Thirty Years War — Complete by Friedrich Schiller

He wrote once that he would be accounted "True brother of that company That sang to lighten Ireland's wrong, Ballad and story, rann and song,"— and Nationalist though he still is he has grown more and more preoccupied with art.
— from Irish Plays and Playwrights by Cornelius Weygandt

Then boot in the stirrup again, onward, over the mountain's ridge, desolate rook defying the sun, downward, plunging through hanging forests, clearing the chasm, bridging ravines, and still at noon the eagles, circling and screaming above them, shook over them the dew from their plumes.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

[443] His very name was regarded as sacred, and not to be taken in vain.
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 3 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle

The Keramic Art Works of J. Robertson and Sons are noted throughout the land for the beauty of their products.
— from The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1884 by Various

But since we are one with nature in every one of our acts, each one of them demands a special reminiscence and so a new thought.
— from Logic as the Science of the Pure Concept by Benedetto Croce

Again another row on Burford Down, a continuation of the same moor, starts from a circle containing a kistvaen near Tristis Rock, and stretches away north to a wall and across an inclosed field, but here it has been sadly pillaged for the construction of the wall.
— from A Book of Dartmoor Second Edition by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould