But then you cannot regard this concept of the original Being as proved by you, for you have only assumed it on behalf of a better employment of Reason.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

61. —The arms of John de Bretagne, Earl of Richmond.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

But every one realized at once that the speaker might suddenly rise to genuine pathos and “pierce the heart with untold power.”
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He was not romantically, he was much rather obscurely, handsome; but his physiognomy had an air of requesting your attention, which it rewarded according to the charm you found in blue eyes of remarkable fixedness, the eyes of a complexion other than his own, and a jaw of the somewhat angular mould which is supposed to bespeak resolution.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

Then I told how good she was to all her grand-children, having us to the great-house in the holydays, where I in particular used to spend many hours by myself, in gazing upon the old busts of the Twelve Cćsars, that had been Emperors of Rome, till the old marble heads would seem to live again, or I to be turned into marble with them; how I never could be tired with roaming about that huge mansion, with its vast empty rooms, with their worn-out hangings, fluttering tapestry, and carved oaken pannels, with the gilding almost rubbed out—sometimes in the spacious old-fashioned gardens, which I had almost to myself, unless when now and then a solitary gardening man would cross me—and how the nectarines and peaches hung upon the walls, without my ever offering to pluck them, because they were forbidden fruit, unless now and then,—and because I had more pleasure in strolling about among the old melancholy-looking yew trees, or the firs, and picking up the red berries, and the fir apples, which were good for nothing but to look at—or in lying about upon the fresh grass, with all the fine garden smells around me—or basking in the orangery, till I could almost fancy myself ripening too along with the oranges and the limes in that grateful warmth—or in watching the dace that darted to and fro in the fish-pond, at the bottom of the garden, with here and there a great sulky pike hanging midway down the water in silent state, as if it mocked at their impertinent friskings,—I had more pleasure in these busy-idle diversions than in all the sweet flavours of peaches, nectarines, oranges, and such like common baits of children.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

Many prisoners of consequence became a valuable accession to the spoil; and Priscus, a brother of the late emperor Philip, blushed not to assume the purple, under the protection of the barbarous enemies of Rome.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

John Britaine, Earl of Richmond, built the body of the church to the charges of three hundred pounds, and gave many rich jewels and ornaments to be used in the same; Marie, Countess of Pembroke, seventy pounds.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

I do not deny that in certain climates the passions which are occasioned by the mutual attraction of the sexes are peculiarly intense; but I am of opinion that this natural intensity may always be excited or restrained by the condition of society and by political institutions.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Still in all such cases the ambiguity becomes evident on reflection: and when discovered, merely serves to illustrate further the distinction between the notion of ‘right conduct,’ ‘duty,’ what we ‘ought’ or are under ‘moral obligation’ to do—when these terms are used in a strictly ethical sense—and conduct that is merely conformed to the standard of current opinion.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

The nominal value of their goods, and of the annual produce of their land and labour, would fall, and would be expressed or represented by a smaller quantity of silver than before; but their real value would be the same as before, and would be sufficient to maintain, command, and employ the same quantity of labour.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

The night was spent by the Portuguese in anxious preparation for the approaching conflict, by exercises of religion and putting their arms of all kinds in order.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

Uttering broken expressions of relief, Pearl again threw herself flat on the ground and gazed over the edge of the cliff.
— from The Black Pearl by Woodrow, Wilson, Mrs.

From the rock walls of the gulch came to them booming echoes of rifles in action.
— from A Man Four-Square by William MacLeod Raine

Aaron Sherritt was noticed by every one riding a magnificent horse which I had purchased a few days before.
— from The Last of the Bushrangers: An Account of the Capture of the Kelly Gang by Francis Augustus Hare

3: In the passage quoted the words, "not that others should be eased or refreshed," refer to that abundance of alms which surpasses the need of the recipient, to whom one should give alms not that he may have an easy life, but that he may have relief.
— from Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

These statements of general principles are followed by essays on reading and plans for teaching, correlation as "the headstone of the corner of successful teaching, geography, sand modeling, field lessons, kindergarten training, and discipline."
— from Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, July 1899 Volume LV, No. 3, July 1899 by Various

Oct. 26—Prince of Monaco protests against manner in which Gen. von Buelow proposes to treat his property in France; Government complains of seizure by England of Red Cross ship Ophelia.
— from The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 by Various

[Pg 24] She could scarcely take her round blue eyes off Ralph, who, for his part, did not pay her the smallest attention.
— from The Little Princess of Tower Hill by L. T. Meade

But in that short time we have beaten every other race in the way of progress, and the sun is only yet one hour above the horizon.
— from Historical Romance of the American Negro by Charles Henry Fowler

5. For the biography of Foulques, or Folquet, of Marseilles, who, after being favored by Raymond V., became the most bitter enemy of Raymond VI., see Paul Meyer ap.
— from A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea