Though not a perfect beauty, she possessed nevertheless charms sufficient to arouse the feelings.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

But it cannot be said of reason, that the state in which it determines the will is always preceded by some other state determining it.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

It was getting late when the party arrived at Pavlofsk, but several people called to see the prince, and assembled in the verandah.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I can imagine a rationalist to talk as follows: "Truth is not made," he will say; "it absolutely obtains, being a unique relation that does not wait upon any process, but shoots straight over the head of experience, and hits its reality every time.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

And he notwithstanding of this arte, pleasing God, as he did, consequentlie that art professed by so godlie a man, coulde not be vnlawfull.
— from Daemonologie. by King of England James I

We have a notice of it in Sibbald's Canadian Magazine of January, 1833, in the following terms: "All the fashionable and well-disposed attended; the band of the gallant 79th played, at each table stood a lady; and in a very short time all the articles were sold to gentlemen,—who will keep 'as the apple of their eye' the things made and presented by such hands."
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

Natural baths are praised by some, discommended by others; but it is in a divers respect.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

They behave themselves very well at present, but should the French fleet appear off the coast I don't know what they may do.
— from The Life of a Regimental Officer During the Great War, 1793-1815 by A. F. (Augustus Ferryman) Mockler-Ferryman

He was not sure that the young man he met on the street was the one who had been spying over the fence, but he did not mean to take it for granted that he was not the same, and perhaps be sorry afterwards for his carelessness.
— from Starr, of the Desert by B. M. Bower

Gegenbaur 72 has argued from the resemblance of these appendages to wings, that the wing and the tracheal leaflet are homologous parts, and this view has been accepted as probable by so competent an observer as Sir John Lubbock .
— from The Structure and Life-history of the Cockroach (Periplaneta orientalis) An Introduction to the Study of Insects by L. C. (Louis Compton) Miall

They were permitted to carry with them only so much money as would pay the cost of their voyage, the rest of their goods and property being seized in the king's name.
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 1 (of 8) From the Roman Invasion to the Wars of the Roses by Anonymous

Heads, seven, of dragon and Papal beasts, signifying seven forms of government, 214 , also n ., 235 , 349 , 350 .
— from The Revelation Explained An Exposition, Text by Text, of the Apocalypse of St. John by F. G. (Frederick George) Smith

The University is worthy of a great nation—a noble Norman pile with good endowments and admirable professors, beautifully situated.
— from Hesperothen; Notes from the West, Vol. 1 (of 2) A Record of a Ramble in the United States and Canada in the Spring and Summer of 1881 by Russell, William Howard, Sir

Clemens of Alexandria cites a passage of Menander, who speaks of a purification by sprinkling three times with salt and water.
— from Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike

So long as people believe Secularism not to be wanted, indeed impossible to be wanted—that it is error, wickedness, and unmitigated evil, it will receive no attention, no respect, and make no way.
— from The Principles Of Secularism by George Jacob Holyoake

Unless indeed we use the term Natural Selection in a sense so wide as to deprive it of any purely biological significance; and so recognise as a sort of natural selection whatsoever nexus of causes suffices to differentiate between the likely and the unlikely, the scarce and the frequent, the easy and the hard: and leads accordingly, under the peculiar conditions, limitations and restraints which we call “ordinary circumstances,” one type of crystal, one form of cloud, one chemical compound, to be of frequent occurrence and another to be rare.
— from On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

Initial letter M, from an edition of Ovid’s Tristia, printed at Venice by J. de Cireto, 1499 230 Peasants dancing and regaling, from Heures a l’Usaige de Chartres, printed at Paris by Simon Vostre about 1502.
— from A Treatise on Wood Engraving, Historical and Practical by Henry G. (Henry George) Bohn