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Let us, therefore, try a compromise, which ignores neither that which we bring to experience (like empiricism), nor that which we gain from experience (like apriorism).
— from Pragmatism by D. L. (David Leslie) Murray
Arrows have had nothing to do with eggs (at least since Leda’s time), neither are the so-called arrows like arrows, nor the eggs like eggs, nor the honeysuckles like honeysuckles; they are all conventionalised into a monotonous successiveness 315 of nothing,—pleasant to the eye, useless to the thought.
— from The Stones of Venice, Volume 1 (of 3) by John Ruskin
to his left past the gate of Charisius (Edirnè Kapoussi), the European levies extended northwards to the Golden Horn.
— from Constantinople: The Story of the Old Capital of the Empire by William Holden Hutton
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