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When two elements are necessarily united in one concept, they must be connected as reason and consequence, and this either so that their unity is considered as analytical (logical connection), or as synthetical (real connection) the former following the law of identity, the latter that of causality.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant
The Lord of these mountains hath given us a charge not to be forgetful to entertain strangers, therefore the good of the place is before you.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come Delivered under the similitude of a dream, by John Bunyan by John Bunyan
He added that when Asia was in his power he would return to Greece, and thence make an expedition with all his naval and military forces to the eastern extremity of the Euxine Sea through the Hellespont and Propontis.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian
[The East says that the air is full of invisible constituents that, once taken in hand and controlled, will take on various forms of life.
— from Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Faries by Yuk Yi
From the Egyptian Sphinx to the Kamakura Daibuts; from Prometheus to Christ; from Michael Angelo to Shelley, art had wrought on this eternal figure almost as though it had nothing else to say.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
Gentle Father Iosif, the librarian, a great favorite of the dead man's, tried to reply to some of the evil speakers that “this is not held everywhere alike,” and that the incorruptibility of the bodies of the just was not a dogma of the Orthodox Church, but only an opinion, and that even in the most Orthodox regions, at Athos for instance, they were not greatly confounded by the smell of corruption, and there the chief sign of the glorification of the saved was not bodily incorruptibility, but the color of the bones when the bodies have lain many years in the earth and have decayed in it.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
His father and mother had always lived as man and wife—none of the few people who were acquainted with them ever supposed them to be anything else.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
2. All things therefore appear to be made up and produced by the coming together of these elements, so that they have been distributed by nature among an infinite number of kinds of things.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
Since the days of Locke, we have [140] always spoken of the internal life of the mind as contrasted with the external life, of subjective reality as contrasted with objective reality; and in the same way we oppose the external senses to the inner sense (the internal perception), which it has at times been proposed to erect into a sixth sense.
— from The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Alfred Binet
However, the determination to give King Chaltzantzin a chance to prove his sanity, together with the hope that something of real value might be found, led him to continue his investigations, and he presently had examined all the jars ranged on two sides of the room; and his grumbling curses increased constantly in vigor as jar after jar yielded only arrow-heads, and lance-heads, and chisel-shaped pieces of obsidian, that I perceived must have been intended for the making of the cutting edges of the maccahuitl, or Aztec sword; but, for my part, all of these things filled me with the liveliest pleasure as I took them from Young and attentively examined them; for the delicate and perfect workmanship that they exhibited showed them to have been made by a people that had reached the highest development of the Stone Age.
— from The Aztec Treasure-House by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier
Started at 8.6 a.m. firstly up the swamp side northerly a short distance, then easterly over a saddle in the range for the eastern slopes towards the main drainage to the northwards.
— from McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia by John McKinlay
At last in the shadow of some trees, Enid saw three tall knights.
— from Stories of King Arthur's Knights, Told to the Children by Mary MacGregor by Mary Esther Miller MacGregor
Thus there is scarcely a cottage in the valley in which good books are not to be found under perusal; and we are told that it is a common thing for the Eskdale shepherd to take a book in his plaid to the hill-side—a volume of Shakespeare, Prescott, or Macaulay— and read it there, under the blue sky, with his sheep and the green hills before him.
— from The Life of Thomas Telford, Civil Engineer With an Introductory History of Roads and Travelling in Great Britain by Samuel Smiles
It was a custom in Ireland to "wake" a man who was to be hung, the night before the execution, so that the poor fellow might enjoy the whiskey drunk in his honor.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. by Various
The people ascribed the execution solely to the personal jealousy of the Duke.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84) by John Lothrop Motley
She regarded it for some time, following with her eyes the erratic streams that trickled down the glass, stretching out wearily, listening to the wind.
— from The Trail to Yesterday by Charles Alden Seltzer
As soon as the enemy saw this, they desisted from their ascent, and dispersed in all directions; leaving the forward march open to the main Grecian army, which Cheirisophus accordingly conducted safely down into the plain.
— from History of Greece, Volume 09 (of 12) by George Grote
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