They arise from the assumption that the conditions will be similar to those which the scientist studies, and that a situation which exhibits certain phenomena under narrow experimental conditions will show them, also, in the large.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Thus, therefore, the most moderate victory of the chief Army must tend to cause a constant sinking of the scale on the opponent's side, until new external circumstances bring about a change.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

“Merely the term unlimited —nothing else, certainly.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

capture , f. , action de capturer un homme, un navire, etc. car , conj. , qui marque la raison, la preuve; parce que.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

In a cognition which completely harmonizes with the laws of the understanding, no error can exist.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Let them contend, pray, tremble, trouble themselves that will, for their parts, they fear neither God nor devil; but with that Cyclops in Euripides, Haud ulla numina expavescunt caelitum, Sed victimas uni deorum maximo, Ventri offerunt, deos ignorant caeteros.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

urgansa n embossed cloth.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

[5] Por eso decía un dentista, ahora años, que «el nacimiento de un niño en Cuba es un hecho altamente significativo».
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Saepius accidit melancholicis, ut nimium exsiccato cerebro vigiliis attenuentur.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Unfortunately nothing ever came of that.
— from The Lady from the Sea by Henrik Ibsen

Di due fiamme si vanta, e stringe e spezza Più volte un nodo; e con quest' arti piega (Chi 'l crederebbe!)
— from The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature All volumes by Various

[Pg xv] INTRODUCTION The purpose of this book is to fill a need for the identification of artifacts and to contribute to a unified nomenclature, especially concerning projectile point types in Alabama and adjoining areas.
— from Handbook of Alabama Archaeology: Part I, Point Types by James W. Cambron

"I don't like any one who knew us when we were rich to see us now," Eddie cried suddenly.
— from Little Folks (October 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

From hence we may see by Scripture that Christ’s ministers, whom he calls and sends to preach the Gospel, are so well provided for by Him that they have no need to be hired by the children of the world; for in so doing they would reproach their Lord and Master and shew themselves not only faithless, but wickedly covetous, in practising contrary 366 to this doctrine of Christ, and to come under the condemnation of this great sin so much condemned in Scripture, “The priests whereof teach for hire, and the prophets whereof divine for money, yet they will lean upon the Lord, and say, is not the Lord among us; none evil can come upon us.
— from The Rogerenes: some hitherto unpublished annals belonging to the colonial history of Connecticut by John R. (John Rogers) Bolles

"But I give you back this one unbroken, not even cracked," said I.
— from The Heather-Moon by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

The unlettered natives, even children and females, who know almost nothing of the distinctions into four, five, seven, or eight shing , observe them closely in their speech, and detect a mispronunciation as soon as the learned man.
— from The Middle Kingdom, Volume 1 (of 2) A Survey of the Geography, Government, Literature, Social Life, Arts, and History of the Chinese Empire and its Inhabitants by S. Wells (Samuel Wells) Williams

Hence the proverbial sayings: avare comme un Auvergnat ; voleur comme un Normand ; entêté comme un Breton ; 99 moutons et un Champenois font cent bêtes , &c. Again, among soldiers “ un Parisien ” is synonymous with a soldier who seeks to shirk his duty; sailors apply the epithet to a bad sailor, horsedealers to a “screw,” &c. , &c. Rapiot , m. (popular), patch on a coat or shoe ; (thieves’) searching on the person , “frisking, or ruling over.”
— from Argot and Slang A New French and English Dictionary of the Cant Words, Quaint Expressions, Slang Terms and Flash Phrases Used in the High and Low Life of Old and New Paris by Albert Barrère

[The musical compositions here referred to were those of Miss Laura Barker, afterwards Mrs. Tom Taylor, a member of a singularly gifted family, whose father and sisters were all born artists, with various and uncommon natural endowments, cultivated and developed to the highest degree, in the seclusion of a country parsonage.] ...
— from Records of Later Life by Fanny Kemble