Then said Mercy, "I confess my ignorance, I spake what I understood not: I acknowledge that Thou doest all things well."
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

When we are careless and inattentive, the same action of the understanding has no effect upon us, nor is able to convey any of that satisfaction, which arises from it, when we are in another disposition.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Such are the sacrifices which are established among them; but of swine these make no use, nor indeed are they wont to keep them at all in their land.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

I am more struck, just now, with the supreme silence which reigns in the sea beneath us, notwithstanding its agitation, than with any other phenomenon presenting itself.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

But it appears as this blind and unconscious striving in the whole of unorganised nature, in all those original forces of which it is the work of physics and chemistry to discover and to study the laws, and each of which manifests itself to us in millions of phenomena which are exactly similar and regular, and show no trace of individual character, but are mere multiplicity through space and time, i.e. , through the principium individuationis , as a picture is multiplied through the facets of a glass.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

This is the only reference to the acanthobolus I have met with, and it gives us no information as to the appearance of the instrument.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

" On this he sent the other princes away, save only the two sons of Atreus and Ulysses, Nestor, Idomeneus, and the knight Phoenix, who stayed behind and tried to comfort him in the bitterness of his sorrow: but he would not be comforted till he should have flung himself into the jaws of battle, and he fetched sigh on sigh, thinking ever of Patroclus.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Let us now inquire, as the subject of the present essay, how this is done in reference to a system of symbolism dependent for its construction on types and figures derived from the temple of Solomon, and which we hence call the "Temple Symbolism of Freemasonry."
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

On the other hand the conception of fire as an emanation of the sun, or at all events as linked to it by a bond of physical sympathy, is far less simple and obvious; and though the use of fire as a charm to produce sunshine appears to be undeniable, nevertheless in attempting to explain popular customs we should never have recourse to a more recondite idea when a simpler one lies to hand and is supported by the explicit testimony of the people themselves.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Although the somewhat histrionic attack, and the slight but real damage to property were sanctioned by tribal usage, not infrequently among the Southern Massim serious quarrels and scrimmages were started by it.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

In the bold emulation, in the sounding rhythms, even in the mighty professional pride of the poets of this age there is, more than in any other epoch of Roman literature, an imposing grandeur; and even those who are under no illusion as to the weak points of this poetry may apply to it the proud language, already quoted, in which Ennius celebrates its praise: -Enni poeta, salve, qui mortalibus Versus propinas flammeos medullitus.- National Opposition As the Hellenico-Roman literature of this period was essentially marked by a dominant tendency, so was also its antithesis, the contemporary national authorship.
— from The History of Rome, Book III From the Union of Italy to the Subjugation of Carthage and the Greek States by Theodor Mommsen

The old Jesuit poet Rapin writing in the seventeenth century tells a fanciful tale that— "Gardens of old, nor Art, nor Rules obey'd, But unadorn'd, or wild Neglect betray'd;" that Flora's hair hung undressed, neglected "in artless tresses," until in pity another nymph "around her head wreath'd a Boxen Bough" from the fields; which so improved her beauty that trim edgings were placed ever after—"where flowers disordered once at random grew."
— from Old-Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth by Alice Morse Earle

Haggai leaves us under no illusions as to their moral and spiritual condition.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes by Alexander Maclaren

Let us now, in addition, turn to the words, "Abraham rejoiced to see (literally, that he might see)
— from Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg

He was under no illusions as to the danger which threatened him.
— from The Invasion of 1910, with a full account of the siege of London by William Le Queux

We found here a convoy of four waggons with supplies for Ridley’s column, but they could give us no information as to where he was camped, or how far ahead he might be; they were merely following along on his track.
— from The Matabele Campaign Being a Narrative of the Campaign in Suppressing the Native Rising in Matabeleland and Mashonaland, 1896 by Baden-Powell of Gilwell, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, Baron

Scott is merely a noise or shape conventionally used to designate a certain person; it gives us no information about that person, and has nothing that can be called meaning as opposed to denotation.
— from Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell