One who reads it here, in a new and different land, thinks only of the story and of the novelist's power; but one who reads it on the spot which it describes, and amidst the life which it pictures, is continually haunted by the suggestion that George Eliot understood neither Italy nor the Italians.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

And just in this transcendental or supersensible sphere, where experience affords us neither instruction nor guidance, lie the investigations of reason, which, on account of their importance, we consider far preferable to, and as having a far more elevated aim than, all that the understanding can achieve within the sphere of sensuous phenomena.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

( c. ) utinam nē in nemore Pēliō secūribus caesa accēdisset abiēgna ad terram trabēs , E. in Cornif.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

('to give emphasis or energy,' A. ; introducing the ground of an implied assertion, Bello ); now, unaccented ; —— no if not, unless, else (N 64 1); un—— es no es a bit, a trifle.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Its despair cannot be universal nor its nihilism complete so long as it remains a coherent method of action, with particular goals and a steady faith that their attainment is possible.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

This is from Ennius— Utinam ne in nemore Pelio securibus Cæsa cecidisset abiegna ad terram trabes.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

For then we were speaking of opposites in the concrete, and now of the essential opposite which, as is affirmed, neither in us nor in nature can ever be at variance with itself: then, my friend, we were speaking of things in which opposites are inherent and which are called after them, but now about the opposites which are inherent in them and which give their name to them; and these essential opposites will never, as we maintain, admit of generation into or out of one another.
— from Phaedo by Plato

Usque adeo insanus, ut nec inferos, nec superos esse dicat, animasque cum corporibus interire credat, &c. 6636 .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

For us, necessity is not, as of old, a sort of mythological personage without us, with whom we can do warfare: it is a magic web woven through and through us, like that magnetic system of which modern science speaks, penetrating us with a network, subtler than our subtlest nerves, yet bearing in it the central forces of the world.
— from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater

"I could steer you over the bar of the Fly River with that," said he, "and the surf up north is not like those little breakers."
— from Madame Gilbert's Cannibal by Bennet Copplestone

[A] And further, this universal nature is named truth, and is the prime cause of all things that are true.
— from Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

He understood now if never before all the trouble he had brought upon his companions, first by making their presence in the city known, and, lastly, by betraying the whereabouts of the party when he ventured out of the cave.
— from The Search for the Silver City: A Tale of Adventure in Yucatan by James Otis

Nest: Mountain chickadees usually nest in natural cavities or abandoned woodpecker holes, and probably do not excavate their own cavities if suitable ones are available (Bent 1946).
— from Cavity-Nesting Birds of North American Forests Agriculture Handbook 511 by Charles P. Stone

Now it is otherwise; and allowing that the quantity of trade is but half what it was before the war, the case must show the vast advantage of an open trade, because the present quantity under her restrictions could not support itself; from which I infer, that if half the quantity without the restrictions can bear itself up nearly, if not quite, as well as the whole when subject to them, how prosperous must the condition of America be when the whole shall return open with all the world.
— from The Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 1 (1774-1779): The American Crisis by Thomas Paine

, o´p u n. 11, ó-p u n it n u t´sa.
— from Alphabetical Vocabularies of the Clallum and Lummi by George Gibbs

This was the first convent of religious women founded in the United States, the house of Ursuline nuns in New Orleans having come into existence while Louisiana was still a French colony.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 23, April, 1876-September, 1876. A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

He believes them because he thinks they are not unreasonable, not impossible, not improbable.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

The unseen nest is not for yours.
— from The Motor Girls Through New England; or, Held by the Gypsies by Margaret Penrose