Hence the proposition, “Nothing happens by blind chance (in mundo non datur casus),” is an a priori law of nature.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

But of this decidedly synthetical proposition, I nowhere meet with even an attempt at proof; nay, it very rarely has the good fortune to stand, as it deserves to do, at the head of the pure and entirely a priori laws of nature.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

A young girl may not, even with her fiancé, lunch in a road house without a chaperon, or go on a journey that can by any possibility last over night.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

I will go and tell him...." At this date I was a lover of the theatre: a Platonic lover, of necessity, since my parents had not yet allowed me to enter one, and so incorrect was the picture I drew for myself of the pleasures to be enjoyed there that I almost believed that each of the spectators looked, as into a stereoscope, upon a stage and scenery which existed for himself alone, though closely resembling the thousand other spectacles presented to the rest of the audience individually.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

These two, whom we shall call Susan and Emmeline, had been the personal attendants of an amiable and pious lady of New Orleans, by whom they had been carefully and piously instructed and trained.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Lacks and Wants Yet Rulers Strictly Out of the Masses Monuments—the Past and Present Little or Nothing New After All A Lincoln Reminiscence Freedom Book-Classes-America's Literature Our Real Culmination An American Problem
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Now in this way there can be no misunderstanding, because no design in the proper meaning of the word can possibly be ascribed to inanimate matter; we thus give notice that this word here only expresses a principle of the reflective not of the determinant Judgement, and so is to introduce no particular ground of causality; but only adds for the use of the Reason a different kind of investigation from that according to mechanical laws, in order to supplement the inadequacy of the latter even for empirical research into all particular laws of nature.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

In America it has become proverbial that a Pole, Lithuanian, or Norwegian cannot be distinguished, in the second generation, from an American born of native parents.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Here also does reason presuppose the existence of the systematic unity of various powers—inasmuch as particular laws of nature are subordinate to general laws; and parsimony in principles is not merely an economical principle of reason, but an essential law of nature.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

THE CHANCEL SCREEN [Pg 229] P erhaps, gentle reader (all readers are supposed to be "gentle,"—they ought to be), if you live in a retired village, you will find that in the course of many years, your village annals present little or nothing worthy of record, as matter of general interest or importance; you will, therefore, understand how that the past six years at the little village of St. Catherine's have been so uneventful as to be noticed only by a blank in our narrative.
— from Stones of the Temple; Or, Lessons from the Fabric and Furniture of the Church by Walter Field

But that appeal teaches us that we miss the best and plainest lesson of nature, unless we see God present and working in it all, and are thereby heartened to trust quietly in His care for us, who are better than the ravens because we have to sow and reap, or than the lilies because we must toil and spin.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Luke by Alexander Maclaren

The plate [18] forming the frontispiece to this volume shows the balloon as seen from Mr. Franklin’s terrace at Passy. Letter of November 30.
— from Benjamin Franklin and the First Balloons by Benjamin Franklin

Ascending the short flight of steps at the side of the mosque we emerged from the Jardin Marengo, and, turning into the broad but unfrequented Boulevard Valée, the highest point of the ancient town, we walked for some distance until nearly opposite the great grey walls of the prison, when suddenly my guide crossed the road and dived into the Arab quarter, a puzzling labyrinth of narrow crooked streets and gloomy little passages, of maze-like windings and dark impasses .
— from Zoraida: A Romance of the Harem and the Great Sahara by William Le Queux

In the case of a plate, little or no ornament should be placed in the centre; but if there is a central ornament it should be a small, regular, radiating figure, consisting of like parts (Figs. 114 and 115).
— from Principles of Decorative Design Fourth Edition by Christopher Dresser

This has sprung from a true and noble feeling; from a patriotic love of national greatness and a hatred of those who, for small party purposes, have been willing to lessen the name of the United States.
— from North America — Volume 2 by Anthony Trollope

His father was John Paul, a gardener, and the future admiral took the name Jones about 1773 out of regard for Willie Jones, a wealthy planter and political leader of North Carolina, who had befriended him in his days of poverty.
— from The Mentor: The Revolution, Vol. 1, Num. 43, Serial No. 43 The Story of America in Pictures by Albert Bushnell Hart

" Glycera "Nay, be not frightened by a small affray, Pure love of nature cannot pave its way.
— from Fringilla: Some Tales In Verse by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

"At present little or nothing is done to combat drought."
— from Thirty Years in Australia by Ada Cambridge

Young Renwick was a passionate lover of nature.
— from Sketches of the Covenanters by J. C. (James Calvin) McFeeters