Now let us remember that in laying his foundation Kant expressly and repeatedly rejects every [Pg 66] anthropological basis, everything that could prove the Categorical Imperative to be a fact of consciousness, because such a proof would be empirical.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

Nor did it come from paganism; for though there were vestal devotees of the deities, the materialism which governed Greek and Roman religion entirely precluded any belief in a moral inferiority as resulting from the rightful intercourse of the sexes.
— from Women of Early Christianity by Mitchell Carroll

G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS NEW YORK LONDON 27 West Twenty-third Street 24 Bedford Street, Strand The Knickerbocker Press 1895 Copyright , 1895 BY ANNA KATHARINE ROHLFS All rights reserved Electrotyped, Printed and Bound by The Knickerbocker Press, New York G. P. Putnam’s Sons THE DOCTOR, HIS WIFE, AND THE CLOCK
— from The Doctor, his Wife, and the Clock by Anna Katharine Green

His plan was simply to kill Champlain and deliver Quebec to the Basques in return for a rich reward, either promised or expected.
— from The Founder of New France : A Chronicle of Champlain by Charles W. (Charles William) Colby

"Yes, I perspire, as I have reason to;" Pipelet passed his hand over his face, dripping with moisture; "for there are regular revolutionary events passing here."
— from Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02 by Eugène Sue

the Observations prefixed to the Liber Quotidianus Contrarotulatoris Garderobæ Anno Regni Regis Edwardi Primi vicesimo octavo , p. liv.
— from A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum by Anonymous

And ash like a ripplin’ rifer efery poem ought to pe, So all your form is flowin’ in perfect harmony.
— from Thirteen Years of a Busy Woman's Life by Mrs. (Ethel) Alec-Tweedie

For leave to act , apply to the publisher All rights reserved Edinburgh : Printed by T. and A. Constable for David Douglas London : Simpkin , Marshall and Co .
— from The Garotters by William Dean Howells

“You are all rascals” ( ribaldi ), exclaimed Pope Julius II.
— from Venice and Its Story by Thomas Okey

When intelligence of the Stamp Act riots reached England, Parliament passed the Mutiny Act , which provided for the quartering of troops in America, at the partial expense of the colonists themselves.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 2 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing