It has already been intimated that sensational empiricism represents neither the idea of experience justified by modern psychology nor the idea of knowledge suggested by modern scientific procedure.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

[340] For that this was Minerva he supposes to be poetical fiction; for he thinks that Minerva is a goddess, and he places her among the gods whom he believes to be all good and blessed in the sublime ethereal region, remote from intercourse with men.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

They never breathed fresh air; they had never heard of a playground; in all Berlin not a cubic inch of oxygen was admitted in winter into an inhabited building; in the school every room was tightly closed and had no ventilation; the air was foul beyond all decency; but when the American opened a window in the five minutes between hours, he violated the rules and was invariably rebuked.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

In other words, the behaviour is to some extent related to the position of the part stimulated.
— from Animal Behaviour by C. Lloyd (Conwy Lloyd) Morgan

From time to time he looked out, but there was no change in the posture of affairs; through the half-open door opposite he could see the lights burning in the still empty room, and the small figure remained motionless at the moonlit window.
— from My Little Lady by E. Frances (Eleanor Frances) Poynter

The priests moved from end to end with the Bishop, in their stiff embroidered robes, and there was a holy smell of incense which strove with the sharp scent of the newly-chiselled wood.
— from Paul the Minstrel and Other Stories Reprinted from The Hill of Trouble and The Isles of Sunset by Arthur Christopher Benson

But, indeed, that Sunday evening reading was the one thing that saved my life from growing, or settling, into a petrifaction.
— from Daisy by Susan Warner

Baldy is obedient and willing, but it takes something extraordinary, really brilliant, or dramatic, to give a dog more than a local reputation.
— from Baldy of Nome by Esther Birdsall Darling

Bet you, when his soul takes flight, An' the angels talk at night, He'll butt in to set 'em right.
— from When Day is Done by Edgar A. (Edgar Albert) Guest

But in the smaller end room at the back the great windows were open, and the sea breeze came in fitfully, and the colours of the evening sky were discernible, and there the table was prepared.
— from The Letter of Credit by Susan Warner

He was evidently so anxious to please his master, not from fear of the rod, but the desire to spare that worthy man the pain of inflicting it, that he had more trouble taken with his education than was bestowed on the brightest intellect that school ever reared; and where other boys were roughly flogged, Jos. Hartopp was soothingly patted on the head, and told not to be cast down, but try again.
— from What Will He Do with It? — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Scientists are now discovering how young children develop emotionally and intellectually from their very first days and how important it is for parents to begin immediately talking, singing, even reading to their infants.
— from State of the Union Addresses by Bill Clinton