The author of the most detailed report 648 is one François Charles de Berckheim, special commissioner of police at Mayence towards the end of the Empire, who as a Freemason is naturally not disposed to prejudice against secret societies.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

By cause we ordinarily mean something capable of producing a certain change.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

(Now this Ardiaeus lived a thousand years before the time of Er: he had been the tyrant of some city of Pamphylia, and had murdered his aged father and his elder brother, and was said to have committed many other abominable crimes.)
— from The Republic by Plato

The Leges Iuliae 360 361 58-50 Caesar in Gaul (in Britain 55 and 54 B.C. ) Gaul divided into three Provinces (14, 15, 16) Caesar (102-44) 58-57 Cicero’s banishment and return A. Hirtius (ob. 43) 56 Conference of the Triumvirs at Luca 55 Second Consulship of Pompeius and Crassus 53 Disaster at Carrhae .
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Besides,' said Mr Podsnap, flushing high up among his hair-brushes, with a strong consciousness of personal affront, 'the subject is a very disagreeable one.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

In it there was one battery of artillery, which poured an incessant fire upon our advancing column, and the ground was very irregular with small clusters of pines, affording shelter, of which the enemy took good advantage.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Moreover, of the superior class of perturbations, as Hecaton says, in the second book of his treatise on the Passions, and as Zeno also says in his work on the Passions, there are four kinds, grief, fear, desire, and pleasure.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

Accordingly, the application of knightly honor, which still recognizes this principle, is confined to those small cases of personal assault which meet with but slight punishment at the hands of the law, or even none at all, for de minimis non ,—mere trivial wrongs, committed sometimes only in jest.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer

Beyond the smoke and below we could hear the clash of steel, cries of pain, and savage oaths, where men were fighting and dying hard.
— from The Chevalier d'Auriac by S. (Sidney) Levett Yeats

Where, then, a State obtains a judgment against an individual, and the court rendering 121 such judgment overrules a defence set up under the Constitution or laws of the United States, the transfer of this record into the Supreme Court for the sole purpose of inquiring whether the judgment violates the Constitution or laws of the United States can, with no propriety, we think, be denominated a suit commenced or prosecuted against the State, whose judgment is so far re-examined.
— from Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States. v. 1 (of 2) by George Ticknor Curtis

To withstand the severe competition of pigweed and ragweed, the garden patch requires your energy, plus its own; and the more war is waged upon these, the more does it seem to encourage the purslane, which thrives like a freebooter in this sort of warfare.
— from In the Open: Intimate Studies and Appreciations of Nature by Stanton Davis Kirkham

Many such changes of pressures and winds actually occur in different parts of the world, and are of great importance in controlling the climate.
— from Practical Exercises in Elementary Meteorology by Robert DeCourcy Ward

It is a task eminently calculated to test the social capabilities of Positivism, and for which no other system is qualified.
— from A General View of Positivism Or, Summary exposition of the System of Thought and Life by Auguste Comte

"In the first place, Mr. West, the newspaper press is by no means the only or, as we look at it, the best vehicle for serious criticism of public affairs.
— from Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887 by Edward Bellamy

Philosophy, or “reasoned truth,” if it be attainable at all, cannot most certainly be attained without such many-sided handling: still less can that which Plato calls knowledge be attained — or such command of philosophy as will enable a man to stand a Sokratic cross-examination in it.
— from Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 2 by George Grote