Such concept cannot be given in any experience, be it ever so extensive, and consequently the falsehood either of the positive or the negative proposition cannot be discovered by this touch-stone.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

From his mother’s answers, Pashka learned that his name was not Pashka, but Pavel Galaktionov, that he was seven years old, that he could not read or write, and that he had been ill ever since Easter.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

But the whole man is one of the strangest beings I ever set eyes on.”
— from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The watchtower of Athens was besieged by inquirers, each sail eagerly looked out for; till on the first of May the gallant frigate bore in sight, freighted with treasure more invaluable than the wealth which, piloted from Mexico, the vexed Pacific swallowed, or that was conveyed over its tranquil bosom to enrich the crown of Spain.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Demonology in Europe was in fact essentially a Jewish science, for although a belief in evil spirits existed from the earliest times and has always continued to exist amongst primitive races, and also amongst the ignorant classes in civilized countries, it was mainly through the Jews that these dark superstitions were imported to the West, where they persisted not merely amongst the lower strata of the Jewish population, but formed an essential part of Jewish tradition.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

They hope that, for the sake of their zeal, Heaven will pardon the depravity of their manners, be it ever so excessive.
— from Christianity Unveiled Being an Examination of the Principles and Effects of the Christian Religion by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'

The new king was born in England, spoke English as his mother tongue, [791] and was said to look upon Hanover as a foreign country, whose interests were to be considered of subordinate importance.
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 1 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle

It was probably taken from the “Arabian Nights,” and the picture produced was one of strange, fantastic, luxurious houses; of women who were either very young and very beautiful, or else very old and very cunning; but in either state exercising much more influence in life than women in the East do now; of good-natured, capricious, though sometimes tyrannical monarchs; and of life full of quaint mysteries, quite unintelligible in every phasis, and on that account the more picturesque.
— from An Unprotected Female at the Pyramids by Anthony Trollope

But in every street except those given up entirely to trade, such as Cheapside, stood the substantial house of the City Fathers.
— from London by Walter Besant

He's the finest bird I ever set eyes on; an' as for singin', he's dropped the weather, an' he's askin' folks to his housewarmin' to-day.
— from The Song of the Cardinal by Gene Stratton-Porter