It's the cause of much suffering, but it's a consolation to know I posses it, when I wake up in the night. 查尔斯·狄更斯.远大前程.
Airy, in whose posses sion Adams's results had remained for months unpublished and unheeded, wrote Leverrier: You are to be recognized beyond doubt as the predictor of the planet's place. 李贝.西洋科学史.
It will first be proper to observe a few of those experiments, which convince us, that our perceptions are not possest of any independent existence. 戴维·休谟.人性论.
Shall the despair of success make me assert, that I am here possest of an idea, which is not preceded by any similar impression? 戴维·休谟.人性论.
It is only by taste we can decide concerning it, nor are we possest of any other standard, upon which we can form a judgment of this kind. 戴维·休谟.人性论.