Since, therefore, external objects as they appear to the senses, give us no idea of power or necessary connexion, by their operation in particular instances, let us see, whether this idea be derived from reflection on the operations of our own minds, and be copied from any internal impression.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

The Cherokee have strains of Creek, Catawba, Uchee, Natchez, Iroquois, Osage, and Shawano blood, and such admixture implies contact more or less intimate and continued.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

60, for this I hold to be a rule in life that’s passing useful, ‘naught in overplus.’
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

In the Vulgate we have ut non instead of ne .
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

The preceding considerations, which were unavoidably necessary in order to clear the ground, now enable me to indicate the true incentive which underlies all acts of real moral worth.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

As generation is, so also death, a secret of nature's wisdom: a mixture of elements, resolved into the same elements again, a thing surely which no man ought to be ashamed of: in a series of other fatal events and consequences, which a rational creature is subject unto, not improper or incongruous, nor contrary to the natural and proper constitution of man himself. H2 anchor VI.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

It is necessary to make sure that the harmonic notes are not lacking in the upper parts: To be avoided: [ Listen ] The use of sixths in the upper parts, and the practice of doubling the upper note in octaves are sometimes effective methods: [ Listen ] [ Listen ] -68- When correct progression increases the distance between the top and bottom notes of the upper parts, this does not matter: Good: [ Listen ]
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

I endeavour'd to put his press (which he had not yet us'd, and of which he understood nothing) into order fit to be work'd with; and, promising to come and print off his Elegy as soon as he should have got it ready, I return'd to Bradford's, who gave me a little job to do for the present, and there I lodged and dieted.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

Behold us now in our frail tenement, hemmed in by hungry, roaring waves, buffeted by winds.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

We cannot presume to judge from the few cedars which still remain, what the habit and appearance of the tree may have been, when it covered the slopes of Libanus, and seeing how very variable Coniferæ are in habit, we may assume that its surviving specimens give us no information on this head.
— from Himalayan Journals — Complete Or, Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, etc. by Joseph Dalton Hooker

In these "tame stories" the heroes of the late revolutionary movements are held up now in one light, and now in another, with the most striking disregard of consistency.
— from The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 by Various

Camping at night and traveling leisurely by day, Indian Jake continued down the valley of the Nascaupee until, one afternoon, a little way above the place where the river empties into Grand Lake, he fell upon numerous indications of the presence of bears.
— from Grit A-Plenty: A Tale of the Labrador Wild by Dillon Wallace

They were under no influence of what has been so well called other-worldliness , for they saw this world as much God's as that, saw that its work has to be done divinely, that it is the beginning of the world to come.
— from The Elect Lady by George MacDonald

In short, these creatures of rule, these "regulars," the Prior and his companion, were come in contact for the first time in their lives with the power of untutored natural impulse, of natural inspiration.
— from Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays by Walter Pater

The acquisition of this religious surname does not prevent a boy from using his unredeemed name in ordinary life.
— from Indo-China and Its Primitive People by Henry Baudesson

Mrs Grantly, which was unusual, never interrupted once.
— from The Ffolliots of Redmarley by L. Allen (Lizzie Allen) Harker

We have reserved a notice of the method of estimating the quantity of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen, in organic compounds, until now, in order to present them to the reader in a more useful and connected form.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

"Surely he can bring us no information of Cortes which we have not received at better hands; and as for his magical art, I think your excellency holds that in too much doubt and contempt to set much store by its crazy revelations."
— from Calavar; or, The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico by Robert Montgomery Bird