And as concerns the external contrivances of nature regarded as purposive (wind, rain, etc.), Physic, indeed, considers their mechanism, but it cannot at all present their reference to purposes, so far as this is a condition necessarily belonging to cause; for this necessity of connexion has to do altogether with the combination of our concepts and not with the constitution of things.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

Buell was the senior of the two generals and commanded the entire column.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

After three days' delay, during which the crown prosecution stood over for the production of the witness from the prison-ship, the witness came, and completed the easy case.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

[127] structed on a very small scale, and, being of very short lengths, the consent of only one or at the most a few landowners was necessary; and what private agreement and arrangement could thus easily compass was scarcely a fit subject for an appeal to the Legislature of the country.
— from Garden Cities of To-Morrow Being the Second Edition of "To-Morrow: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform" by Howard, Ebenezer, Sir

The city of Arados was very populous, though built on a mere rock; and, contrary to Eastern custom, the houses contained many stories.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

If your positions are interior and central, the enemy cannot concentrate except by passing by the mass of your divisions or by moving in a circle around them: he is then exactly in a condition not to be able to apply the fundamental principle, while it is your most obvious measure.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

This is doubtless due to the location of the islands, their isolation from centres of civilization and culture, the enervating climate, lack of entertainment and desirable companionship, and distance from the homeland.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

There are women, so they say, whose doors are closed to embroidered cuffs, women who will only receive guests who wear lace ruffles; I should spend my days elsewhere; though if these women were young and pretty I might sometimes put on lace ruffles to spend an evening or so in their company.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is certain that this monastery, which had a grand air, both as a church and as a seignory; that abbatial palace, where the bishops of Paris counted themselves happy if they could pass the night; that refectory, upon which the architect had bestowed the air, the beauty, and the rose window of a cathedral; that elegant chapel of the Virgin; that monumental dormitory; those vast gardens; that portcullis; that drawbridge; that envelope of battlements which notched to the eye the verdure of the surrounding meadows; those courtyards, where gleamed men at arms, intermingled with golden copes;—the whole grouped and clustered about three lofty spires, with round arches, well planted upon a Gothic apse, made a magnificent figure against the horizon.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

Bookbinding and carpentry were taught, and at Christmas "the embryo cabinet-maker made boxes with locks and hinges, finished, veneered and polished."
— from The Child under Eight by E. R. (Elsie Riach) Murray

The distinctions demanded, in a democratic state, are simply those, which result from relations, that are common to every class, and are for the benefit of all.
— from A Treatise on Domestic Economy; For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School by Catharine Esther Beecher

Hence, when the distance between the aerials is constant, the minimum working energy varies as the fourth power of the height of either aerial, but when the lengths of the aerials are constant, the energy caught up by the receiving aerial must vary inversely as the square of the distance D between the aerials.
— from Hertzian Wave Wireless Telegraphy by Fleming, J. A. (John Ambrose), Sir

And childhood had its litanies In every age and clime; The earliest cradles of the race Were rocked to poet's rhyme.
— from Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems, Complete Volume II of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier

The next figure (No. 12) shows how in such a case the emergent column becomes entangled in the liquid of the bubble when it bursts.
— from A Study of Splashes by A. M. (Arthur Mason) Worthington

Two of the most considerable gentlemen of this republic, whose names are, Cornaro the elder, called “of the great House,” and a Foscarini, are already intriguing to succeed M. Contarini, in the embassy to France, although the choice cannot be made till the month of September; upon 137 whichever of the two it shall fall, he will fill the situation worthily, above all in the article of expense, as they are both very rich and very generous.
— from The True History of the State Prisoner, commonly called the Iron Mask Extracted from Documents in the French Archives by Dover, George Agar Ellis, Baron

The public despatches were lost, as the Alliance very imprudently hoisted American colours, though English colours were then flying on board the Bonhomme Richard.
— from The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 by J. F. (Joseph Florimond) Loubat

It is only here and there in the earlier reports of the Medical Officers of Health that specific mention is made of intemperance, but every reference to the subject showed how largely “drink” affected the sanitary condition of the people and intensified and complicated the evil conditions in which the people were placed, and rendered any amelioration, physical, moral, or religious, infinitely more difficult.
— from The Sanitary Evolution of London by Henry (Henry Lorenzo) Jephson

Then the young marquis walked out and crossed the evergreen covered bridge leading to the Castle grounds.
— from The Lost Lady of Lone by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

Speaking of the Roman Catholic clergy of Canada, he says:—"I call them Popish to distinguish them from the clergy of the Established Church and to express my contempt and detestation of a religion, which sinks and debases the human mind, and which is a curse to every country where it prevails."
— from The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 by Charles Roger