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“To be sure, I remember it all now.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas
It shows at the same time that this fact is inseparably connected with the consciousness of freedom of the will, nay, is identical with it; and by this the will of a rational being, although as belonging to the world of sense it recognizes itself as necessarily subject to the laws of causality like other efficient causes; yet, at the same time, on another side, namely, as a being in itself, is conscious of existing in and being determined by an intelligible order of things; conscious not by virtue of a special intuition of itself, but by virtue of certain dynamical laws which determine its causality in the sensible world; for it has been elsewhere proved that if freedom is predicated of us, it transports us into an intelligible order of things.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant
The spotted leopard, the jaguar, Maya, balam , whose name is attached to the Chacs, and which appears in the calendar and in many of the myths of the Mayan stock, is represented in a number of passages of the Codices, as Cod.
— from A Primer of Mayan Hieroglyphics by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton
"Your majesty was pleased to say——" "I recall it all now.
— from The Eagle of the Empire: A Story of Waterloo by Cyrus Townsend Brady
The shock of sense, breaking in upon us with a fresh irresistible image, checks wayward imagination and sends it rebounding in a new direction, perhaps more relevant to what is happening in the world outside.
— from Soliloquies in England, and Later Soliloquies by George Santayana
In the course of the fighting which took place during the siege, I ran into a number of dangers but I shall limit myself to mentioning two of the more serious.
— from The Memoirs of General Baron de Marbot by Marbot, Jean-Baptiste-Antoine-Marcelin, baron de
Indeed, the consensus of opinion is one which cannot fail to gratify our lady readers, since, in reality, it affirms not only that they are themselves, as ever, the delight of painters, but that—tomfooleries of tight-lacing and high heels apart—their everyday attire may be so also.
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 01, Issue 02, February 1891 An Illustrated Monthly by Various
So also anything which is not seen in reality, is accounted nothing in existence.
— from The Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana of Valmiki, vol. 3 (of 4) part 2 (of 2) by Valmiki
Fiji I 17 2 413 51 381 47 2 0 813 Interior 1 1 130 85 22 14 0 0 153 East 4 3 66 55 50 42 0 0 120 Coast 6 3 82 39 120 57 1 0 209 N.W. 1 1 40 51 38 48 0 0 79 A median sagittal crest though not striking is recorded in a number of cases.
— from A Racial Study of the Fijians by Norman E. Gabel
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