At Radcliffe no one reads the papers to me after they are written, and I have no opportunity to correct errors unless I finish before the time is up.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

I never had a right notion o' rocks till I went there.”
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

Buckingham, in his Palestine, p. 283, says, "The present rock, called Calvary, and enclosed within the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, bears marks, in every part that is naked, of its having been a round nodule of rock standing above the common level of the surface."
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

For this reason its condition cannot be regarded as absolutely necessary, but merely as relatively necessary, or rather as needful; the condition is in itself and a priori a mere arbitrary presupposition in aid of the cognition, by reason, of the conditioned.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Is this acting like a Christian, or doing as you would be done by?” Bell was as obstinate as a rock, not only refusing to put down any food for the famished lad, but reiterating her threat of leaving the house if he were suffered to remain.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

Between ourselves, dear old friend, I am sometimes dissatisfied with you in your capacity as philosopher; you talk sarcastically about religion, nay, openly ridicule it.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

This date presents many difficulties, leaving many centuries unrepresented by any royal names or records.
— from Man, Past and Present by A. H. (Augustus Henry) Keane

As to the morals of these young invalids, they may be well conceived when you remember the morality of our Revolution; and that they, without any religious notions or restraints, were not only permitted, but encouraged to partake of the debauchery and licentiousness which were carried to such an extreme in our armies and encampments.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various

On the whole, he was inclined to think his first horror excessive; at any rate no one remarked upon it.
— from Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

He gives wood for boats and houses, and receives no other remuneration than ¼d.
— from Gairloch in North-West Ross-Shire Its Records, Traditions, Inhabitants, and Natural History, with a Guide to Gairloch and Loch Maree, and a Map and Illustrations by John H. (John Henry) Dixon

Often attacked and sometimes overcome, but always great and redoubtable notwithstanding occasional reverses, Abderamus knew how to repair his losses, and avail himself to the utmost of his good fortune.
— from History of the Moors of Spain by Florian

The wish to re-establish a large fortune was uppermost in everyone’s mind; a lack of broad views, and a mass of small defects, a real need of religion as a political factor, combined with a thirst for pleasure which damaged the cause of religion and necessitated a good deal of hypocrisy; a certain attitude of protest on the part of loftier and clearer-sighted men who set their faces against Court jealousies; and the disaffection of the provincial families, who often came of purer descent than the nobles of the Court which alienated them from itself—all these things combined to bring about a most discordant state of things in the Faubourg Saint-Germain.
— from The Thirteen by Honoré de Balzac

Yet the latter philosopher as a rule not only regards the “ independent ” position, which he himself takes up in the name of “ freedom of thought ” and “ freedom of research, ” as the superior position, but as the only one consistent with the dignity of human reason; and he commonly accuses the Christian philosopher of allowing reason to be “ enslaved ” in “ the shackles of dogma ” .
— from Ontology, or the Theory of Being by P. (Peter) Coffey

Redemption and resurrection not only restore that which was lost, but give what man was originally created to attain: 1 Cor.
— from Systematic Theology (Volume 2 of 3) by Augustus Hopkins Strong

Compatibly with their customs and rude notions of religion, a Singphoo chief could not ever abandon, without dishonour, the application of the lex talionis to one who had murdered his relative; although, from circumstances of policy, or deficiency of means, he might postpone the gratification of his vengeance to an indefinite period.
— from A Sketch of Assam: With some account of the Hill Tribes by Butler, John, Major