It being a general maxim, that no objects have any discoverable connexion together, and that all the inferences, which we can draw from one to another, are founded merely on our experience of their constant and regular conjunction; it is evident, that we ought not to make an exception to this maxim in favour of human testimony, whose connexion with any event seems, in itself, as little necessary as any other.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

He, however, turned his strong sense and unbiased view to the general question of railway communication in India, with the result that he became a vigorous supporter of the idea of narrow gauge and cheap lines in the parts of that country outside of the main trunk lines of traffic.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

The estrangement seems to be marked by the fact that until Severus's death Dio went abroad on no important military or diplomatic mission, but remained constantly in Italy.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

And I trust that my fairest reader, who remembers that, in a real crisis, it is always some uninteresting stranger or unromantic policeman, and not Adolphus, who rescues, will forgive the omission.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

Hence follows an important law— that if a fact is once recognized correctly in its coarser form, then the possibility must be granted that it is correct in its subtler manifestations .
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

If B-vitamine does occur in roasted coffee, it is present only in traces.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

'Alack,' replied Calandrino, 'indeed I say sooth.'
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

The only question that seems to have been raised concerning it, is, whether it ought to be a distinct body or a branch of the legislature.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

An overcast September evening, just at nightfall, saw beneath its drooping eyelids Mrs. Sparsit glide out of her carriage, pass down the wooden steps of the little station into a stony road, cross it into a green lane, and become hidden in a summer-growth of leaves and branches.
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

The Treaty of London [921] of May 11, 1867, signed by Great Britain, Austria, Belgium, France, Holland, Italy, Prussia, and Russia, comprises in its [Pg 590] article 2 the important law-making stipulation concerning the perpetual neutralisation of Luxemburg.
— from International Law. A Treatise. Volume 1 (of 2) Peace. Second Edition by L. (Lassa) Oppenheim

The real Categorical Imperative is a social conscience.
— from Morals and the Evolution of Man by Max Simon Nordau

His procedure at the cabin had been easy and rather casual, it is true, but contact with the town-folk and a careful perusal of the State Code had given him a decided tone
— from They of the High Trails by Hamlin Garland

"It would be rather curious if I should become increasingly impatient, wouldn't it?
— from The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop by Hamlin Garland

The philosophy of Leibnitz, therefore, represents contradiction in its complete development.
— from The Logic of Hegel by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

This explains itself if we consider that there is only a very small amount of ammonia and hydrochloric acid diffused through a very large volume of other gases, so that the very peculiar protective action which the hydrochloric acid does exercise in retarding the dissociation of ammonia in ammonium chloride vapor, where an atom of ammonia is always in contact with an atom of hydrochloric acid, will be diminished almost to zero in such a dilute gas where the atoms of hydrochloric acid and ammonia will only rarely come into immediate contact with each other.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 717, September 28, 1889 by Various

RICKY continued, "It is this matter of Graves that makes this matter urgent.
— from The Way of Decision by M. C. Pease

The sweet-souled songster had no more than others attained real calm in it.
— from Gaston de Latour; an unfinished romance by Walter Pater

The ovipositor, or auger ( tarière ), as Réaumur calls it, is lodged in a sheath which lies in a groove of the terminating ring of the belly.
— from Insect Architecture by James Rennie