Women, we are told, are not capable of resisting their personal partialities: their judgment in grave affairs is warped by their sympathies and antipathies.
— from The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

I am not capable of reasoning.”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The other English had been a very few Days on Board the Pyrate, only from Whydah to Cape Lopez , and no Capture or Robbery done by them in that Time.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

On the twenty-fourth he had three hundred pounds to pay to the young gentleman for whom he was trustee, and no chance of raising the money, except the chance that Mr. Luker had offered to him.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

The actions of which politics take cognisance are necessarily collective or representative; and law is limited to external acts which affect others as well as the agents.
— from Laws by Plato

It will add, too, one more example to thousands, in confirmation of the maxim, that women get once out of compass, there are no lengths of licentiousness, that they are not capable of running.
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

That part of its own produce with which such a nation purchases foreign goods, must consequently be sold cheaper; because, when two things are exchanged for one another, the cheapness of the one is a necessary consequence, or rather is the same thing, with the dearness of the other.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Mr. Tremaine's report said: "Congress can not be converted into a national court of review for any and all criminal convictions where it shall be alleged the judge has committed an error."
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

These woodlands comprised a noble chase, or royal park, fenced by an enclosure, termed, in the Latin of the middle ages, Plexitium, which gives the name of Plessis to so many villages in France.
— from Quentin Durward by Walter Scott

The "many pleasures" here spoken of, are no otherwise defined, than as being such as "the vulgar are not capable of receiving."
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

It breeds along the west coast of Greenland and also on the islands and northern coasts of Russia and Siberia.
— from Birds of Britain by J. Lewis (John Lewis) Bonhote

"It seems," said Johnny, "that there must be a national conference of Radicals meeting somewhere near this river.
— from Triple Spies by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell

Before he had leisure to bring this point to maturity, he was interrupted by a new change of resolution; [v] and not only the court of France, but Walsingham himself, Burleigh, and all the wisest ministers of Elizabeth, were in amazement doubtful where this contest between inclination and reason love and ambition, would at last terminate.[v*] 17 * Digges, p. 387, 396, 408, 426. ** Digges, p. 352. *
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. by David Hume

We rowed about two miles up the coast to the east, where the shore was mostly covered with mangrove-trees; and entering amongst them, by a narrow creek or river, which brought us to a little straggling village, above all the mangroves, there we landed and were shewn fresh water.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14 by Robert Kerr

"By him she had 18 children; 10 daughters married; whose names were: Lady Bacon, Lady Smith, Lady Morton, Lady Bannister, & Lady Fettiplace; Bingham, Baskett, Cole, Thomas, & my Grandmother Ernle; these daughters & their children have made a numerous company of relations.
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 93, August 9, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

He seemed to have come out in a new character, or rather to have taken up an old one; for no one could suppose it worn for the first time.
— from Hills of the Shatemuc by Susan Warner

"Calendars are not capable of registration as such, but if they contain copyrightable reading matter or pictures they may be registered either as 'books' or as 'prints' according to the nature of the copyrightable matter."
— from Copyright: Its History and Its Law by R. R. (Richard Rogers) Bowker