The conception always precedes the understanding; and where the one is obscure, the other is uncertain; where the one fails, the other must fail also. 戴维·休谟.人性论.
Such facility sickened him--but he told himself that it was with the pang which precedes recovery. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
Upon these occasions, a lady's character generally precedes her; and Highbury has long known that you are a superior performer. 简·奥斯汀.爱玛.
I immediately perceive, that they are contiguous in time and place, and that the object we call cause precedes the other we call effect. 戴维·休谟.人性论.
As this last-named operation precedes the crushing, let us first consider it as it was projected and carried on by him. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
This experiment, which is analogous to the one that precedes, was explained by Nicholson, in 1832, in his _Journal de Physique_. 威廉K.戴维.智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.