It is certain that the imagination is more affected by what is particular, than by what is general; and that the sentiments are always moved with difficulty, where their objects are, in any degree, loose and undetermined: Now every particular act of justice is not beneficial to society, but the whole scheme or system: And it may not, perhaps, be any individual person for whom we are concerned, who receives benefit from justice, but the whole society alike.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

SYN: Inactive, inert, quiescent, unresisting, unquestioning, negative, enduring, patient.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Cum in ea valle 10 consules essent, ut neque evadere possent in iugum occupatum ab hoste nec receptum ab tergo circumventi haberent, extrahi tamen diutius certamen potuisset, ni coepta ab Etruscis fuga pavorem ceteris 15 iniecisset.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

These circumstances, in an age of boundless credulity and scientific ignorance, which magnified every phenomenon, and looked upon every natural event as a direct display of divine power, accounts most fully and satisfactorily for the burdensome repetition of groundless miraculous stories found upon nearly every page of the sacred history of every religious nation, without driving us to the necessity of challenging the veracity of the writers who recorded them.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

The brig was a mere log, rolling about at the mercy of every wave; the gale was upon the increase, if any thing, blowing indeed a complete hurricane, and there appeared to us no earthly prospect of deliverance.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Nihil vero est iniquius illis, qui nullam putant esse eloquentiam, nisi uti nihil est praeter eloquentiam.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

La urbanoj ne estas promenantaj en la parko, ĉar ili preferas resti en la domoj.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

“In plain English, then, Mr. Hill, since you can understand nothing else, please to ask your daughter Phoebe who gave her those gloves.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 02 Popular Tales by Maria Edgeworth

we're not quite so bad always as you see us now,' exclaimed Pollie, suppressing a laugh.
— from The Crooked Stick; Or, Pollie's Probation by Rolf Boldrewood

non potest per seipsam exercere hanc potestatem, ergo tenetur eam transferre in aliquem unum vel aliquos paucos; et hoc modo potestas principum in genere considerata, est etiam de jure naturæ, et divino; nec posset genus humanum, etiamsi totum simul conveniret, contrarium statuere, nimirum, ut nulli essent principes vel rectores.
— from Protestantism and Catholicity compared in their effects on the civilization of Europe by Jaime Luciano Balmes

No art has been left unessayed; no experiment, promising a favorable result, left untried to maintain the peaceful relations of the country.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 4 (of 16) by United States. Congress

With its customary shock death had for the time being given Mary a false estimate of her mother and herself, the usual neurasthenic experience people undergo at such a time.
— from The Gorgeous Girl by Nalbro Bartley

This creative artist has the true imagination; he never condescends to invent anything; he sets up no empty pretences.
— from Notes on Life & Letters by Joseph Conrad

[61] Accordingly, the scheme was brought forward under nearly every possible advantage of influential support.
— from Patrick Henry by Moses Coit Tyler