1 Among the innumerable categories applicable to the phenomena of human life one may discriminate between those in which substance prevails and those in which form prevails.
2 The Battle of Borodino, with the occupation of Moscow that followed it and the flight of the French without further conflicts, is one of the most instructive phenomena in history.
3 Those words only denote a certain stage of understanding of phenomena.
4 But for history, the state and power are merely phenomena, just as for modern physics fire is not an element but a phenomenon.
5 But to understand phenomena man has, besides abstract reasoning, experience by which he verifies his reflections.
6 Or in other words, the conception of a cause is inapplicable to the phenomena we are examining.
7 If history dealt only with external phenomena, the establishment of this simple and obvious law would suffice and we should have finished our argument.
8 Its productions and features may be without example, as the phenomena of the heavenly bodies undoubtedly are in those undiscovered solitudes.
9 One of the phenomena which had peculiarly attracted my attention was the structure of the human frame, and, indeed, any animal endued with life.
10 It ought to be like the natural sciences, and to observe given phenomena and the laborer in his economic, ethnographical.
11 When we come to the phenomena of artistic conception, artistic gestation, and artistic reproduction I require a new terminology and a new personal experience.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 5 12 Caesar and Tacitus are two successive phenomena, a meeting between whom seems to be mysteriously avoided, by the One who, when He sets the centuries on the stage, regulates the entrances and the exits.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER 13 Even in the country something of this segregation is manifest in the smaller areas, and of course in the larger phenomena of the Black Belt.