That is to say, his own declarations are doubted, for his objections were based upon facta, which are contingent, and not upon principles, which can alone demonstrate the necessary invalidity of all dogmatical assertions.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

The magazines announce that they can accept no unsolicited poetical contributions; the publishers laugh at the idea of bringing out a book by a man of whom no one has heard.
— from Big Game: A Story for Girls by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

“Compositum ex esse et essentia dicitur de ratione entis creati secundum fundamentum, quod in ipso ente creato habet; hoc autem fundamentum non est aliud nisi quia creatura non habet ex se actu existere, sed tantum est ens potentiale, quod ab alio potest esse participare: nam hinc fit, ut essentia creaturae concipiatur a nobis ut potentiale quid, esse vero ut modus seu actus, quo talis essentia ens in actu constituitur.” —
— from Ontology, or the Theory of Being by P. (Peter) Coffey

This situation was the more disquieting because Buonaparte was a capable and not unwilling police officer.
— from The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Vol. 1 (of 4) by William Milligan Sloane

The viands and the beverages proper to particular occasions, therefore, constitute a not unimportant part of the local customs and usages of the people; and hence demand a place in a volume of Folk-Lore.
— from Lancashire Folk-lore Illustrative of the Superstitious Beliefs and Practices, Local Customs and Usages of the People of the County Palatine by John Harland

He who devised the game of cards, as now usually played, appears to have had a thorough perception of at least two of the weak points of human nature; for next to man's trust in his "luck," in all games of chance, is his confidence in himself in all games of skill.
— from Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards by William Andrew Chatto

To publish it now could answer no useful purpose.
— from Nobody's Man by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

Since the day we had together visited the C.G.T. meetings in Paris, Bill had come to see the virtues of expediency; that, rather than languish in jail where he could accomplish no useful purpose, a revolutionary should, if he could, exile himself.
— from Margaret Sanger: an autobiography. by Margaret Sanger

But when Science, passing beyond its own limits, assumes to take the place of Theology, and sets up its own conception of the Order of Nature as a sufficient account of its Cause , it is invading a province of Thought to which it has no claim, and not unreasonably provokes the hostility of those who ought to be its best friends."
— from The Philosophy of Natural Theology An Essay in confutation of the scepticism of the present day by William Jackson