[99] 'seeing' here what one knows a priori by the causes; and 'believing' what one only judges by the effects, even though the one be as certainly known as the other.
— from Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von
XXIII Convicts have a cunning and peculiar way of revenging themselves on bad and cruel keepers.
— from A Modern Purgatory by Carlo de Fornaro
We secured these, set them up, and over them stretched our blankets, the improvised dwelling thus obtained being a crude kind of wigwam.
— from Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons: Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot
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