It is evident here are four affections, placed, as it were, in a square or regular connexion with, and distance from each other. — from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume
And indeed, if that be so, the people under his government are not a society of rational creatures, entered into a community for their mutual good; they are not such as have set rulers over themselves, to guard, and promote that good; but are to be looked on as an herd of inferior creatures under the dominion of a master, who keeps them and works them for his own pleasure or profit. — from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke
Having indulged in this wild hope he went upstairs, and looked out of the window, and pictured her through the evening journey to London, whither she and Phillotson had gone for their holiday; their rattling along through the damp night to their hotel, under the same sky of ribbed cloud as that he beheld, through which the moon showed its position rather than its shape, and one or two of the larger stars made themselves visible as faint nebulæ only. — from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
state of rest could
To prove this, we should require to know that the state of rest could have existed in the very same time in which the motion took place. — from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
There was a very large thorn-tree, growing near a spring 118 at the side of a hill, close to which a species of rude cottage had been built into the hill, so that it had the appearance of being—and perhaps was—the way by which those who had the right, and the will to do so, could enter into the bowels of the earth. — from River Legends; Or, Father Thames and Father Rhine by Brabourne, Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen, Baron
sermon or rather combination
He preached his theology; some of his sermons—for instance, the sermon, or rather combination of sermons, on Justification by Faith—seem to be less sermons than highly elaborate theological disquisitions, adapted to the use of professional students. — from Selected Sermons of Jonathan Edwards by Jonathan Edwards
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