Whilst a quarter will only be found within a plain partition line, a field divided quarterly (occasionally, but I think hardly so correctly, termed "per cross") is not so limited.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

When I subsume under a pure practical law an action possible to me in the world of sense, I am not concerned with the possibility of the action as an event in the world of sense.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

He regarded them as a huge and pitiless peril, like a Chinese invasion.
— from The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

You're a poet, poet laureate, And representative of all the race.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

He muttered detached words also; the only one I could catch was the name of Catherine, coupled with some wild term of endearment or suffering; and spoken as one would speak to a person present; low and earnest, and wrung from the depth of his soul.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

The point which concerns us is that a law of association, established by purely psychological observation, is a purely psychological law, and may serve as a sample of what is possible in the way of discovering such laws.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

And Plato, having invited her to his feast, we see after how gentle and obliging a manner, accommodated both to time and place, she entertained the company, though in a discourse of the highest and most important nature: “Aeque pauperibus prodest, locupletibus aeque; Et, neglecta, aeque pueris senibusque nocebit.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

si` aguti, con questa orazion picciola, al cammino, che a pena poscia li avrei ritenuti; e volta nostra poppa nel mattino, de' remi facemmo ali al folle volo, sempre acquistando dal lato mancino.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Either : we must deny that any a priori principle lies at the basis of the aesthetical judgement of taste; we must maintain that all claim to necessary universal agreement is a groundless and vain fancy, and that a judgement of taste only des
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

The Alexandrian pictures perished long ago, but the relics of Alexandrian style which remain in the buried cities of Campania, in Pompeii especially, bear testimony to the taste of the period.
— from Theocritus, Bion and Moschus, Rendered into English Prose by of Phlossa near Smyrna Bion

One of the most important tasks of culture, then, is to submit man to form, even in a purely physical life, and to render it aesthetic as far as the domain of the beautiful can be extended, for it is alone in the aesthetic state, and not in the physical state, that the moral state can be developed.
— from Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller by Friedrich Schiller

He taught Burns several things about swimming, and played pranks like a school-boy.
— from The Witness by Grace Livingston Hill

Each subscriber of this class will receive one ticket for life, but not transferable, of free admission into the Institution, and into every part of it, together with one other ticket for life, but not transferable, of free admission to all public philosophical lectures and experiments.
— from The Royal Institution: Its Founder and First Professors by Bence Jones

'Tis useless as the buried talent, Or the half-crown to a poor pal lent; As gilded oats to hungry nag.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari Volume 107, August 25, 1894 by Various

A news article or an interview or a Sunday write-up nowadays has character, background, and a plot precisely like a short story.
— from Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism [First Series] by Henry Seidel Canby