The Empirical Method in the Study of Cases 136 § 27 ( e ) Analogy 144 § 28 ( f )
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

(d) The Empirical Method in the Study of Cases.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

"—Imperial oath of the Emperor Mutsuhito in the sanctuary in the Imperial Palace, T[=o]ki[=o], February 11, 1889.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

But the noise of the muskets and cannon, with the echoing of the hills, made the Highlanders fancy that their shouts were much louder and brisker than those of the enemy, and Lochiel cried out, 'Gentlemen, take courage, the day is ours: I am the oldest commander in the army, and have always observed something ominous and fatal in such a dull, hollow and feeble noise as the enemy made in their shout, which prognosticates that they are all doomed to die by our hands this night; whereas ours was brisk, lively and strong, and shows we have vigor and courage.'
— from The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus

That, he who has suffered the damage has a right to demand in his own name, and he alone can remit: the damnified person has this power of appropriating to himself the goods or service of the offender, by right of self-preservation, as every man has a power to punish the crime, to prevent its being committed again, by the right he has of preserving all mankind, and doing all reasonable things he can in order to that end: and thus it is, that every man, in the state of nature, has a power to kill a murderer, both to deter others from doing the like injury, which no reparation can compensate, by the example of the punishment that attends it from every body, and also to secure men from the attempts of a criminal, who having renounced reason, the common rule and measure God hath given to mankind, hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or a tyger, one of those wild savage beasts, with whom men can have no society nor security: and upon this is grounded that great law of nature, Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

All the effects mentioned in this section have causes very nearly alike.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Guibelin de Troisville, a loyal social friend of the Esgrignons, met in their salon the Roche-Guyons and the Casterans, distant cousins of his, but the intimate relations almost came to an end, when Mademoiselle Virginie de Troisville became Madame de Montcornet.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

But if insanity of a pronounced type exists, manifestly incapacitating the sufferer from complying with the rule which he has broken, good sense would require it to be admitted as an excuse.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Our first intimation of a near approach to Granada was a long stretch of blanched folds showing through evening mistiness in the southern sky, like the drapings of some celestial tabernacle, so high up that they might have been clouds but for a certain persistent, awful immobility that controlled them.
— from Spanish Vistas by George Parsons Lathrop

Though each monarch identified the State with himself, yet it may be doubted if either, on his deathbed, knew that his monarchy was dying also.
— from The Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan by H. G. (Henry George) Keene

Then turning round with fury in his eyes, he shrieked out, “I will treat every man in the same way who interferes with me!”
— from The South Sea Whaler by William Henry Giles Kingston

This made it possible to form the pattern by the embroidery machine in the same way as in the case of ordinary embroidery.
— from Lace, Its Origin and History by Samuel L. Goldenberg

It runs due north up the Hudson river, is continued by Lakes George and Champlain between the Adirondack mountains on the west, and on the east the Green mountains of Vermont; and from the northern end of Lake Champlain it follows the outlet of that lake, the Richelieu river, for seventy to eighty miles into the St. Lawrence.
— from A Historical Geography of the British Colonies, Vol. V Canada—Part I, Historical by Lucas, Charles Prestwood, Sir

Since, then, freedom cannot be touched, a critick of the practical reason can only relate to these empirical motives, in the sense of divesting these from the claim of being exclusively the motives by which the will is determined.
— from A History of Philosophy in Epitome by Albert Schwegler

2.—That there be — meetings in each year, the gentleman at whose house the meeting takes place to be president; and that every member intending to shoot should be on the ground by — o'clock.
— from How to Fence Containing Full Instruction for Fencing and the Use of the Broadsword; Also Instruction in Archery by Aaron A. Warford

At any rate, the emperor Mauricius, in the sixth century, had along with his armies deputati , whose duty he describes, as did also the emperor Leo VI.
— from A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 2 (of 2) by Johann Beckmann