Cf. Critique of Pure Reason , Methodology, c. ii.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

But the Cuman cohorts, op [Pg 97] posing stratagem to force, moved off a little to one side, and when the enemy were carried beyond them in great disorder, they faced about and charged them in the rear.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

At ten o’clock, the king’s collation, consisting of preserves and other delicacies, was prepared in the little room on the side of the church of St. Jean, in front of the silver buffet of the city, which was guarded by four archers.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

The boarders dropped in one after another, interchanging greetings and empty jokes that certain classes of Parisians regard as humorous and witty.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

Observe the conversations of little folk that you hear on the street or in the home, and note the continual changes of pitch.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

H2 anchor Chapter XXV The Games THE great dance was not to begin until eight o'clock, but for any lads and lasses who liked to dance on the shady grass before then, there was music always at hand—for was not the band of the Benefit Club capable of playing excellent jigs, reels, and hornpipes?
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

Nay, it is said, that he often continued in prayer from the hour of morning thanksgiving 349 till it was day; and that by reason of his constant custom of praying or giving thanks to God, he was wont always, wherever he sat, to hold his hands on his knees with the palms turned upwards.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

As that support is the only guaranty of the safety of the Revolution, we cannot change our policy by discussing the question of how much fraternizing will stimulate the awakening of the proletariat of Europe."
— from Bolshevism: The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy by John Spargo

The church has not always been able to secure universal secular education for all her children; but there can be no question that the illiterate classes of Catholic nations are far more civilized and better trained than are the corresponding classes of Protestant nations.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 11, April, 1870 to September, 1870 by Various

A number of Loyalist clergy settled both in Nova Scotia and in Upper Canada, and these held services and taught school in the chief centres of population.
— from The United Empire Loyalists : A Chronicle of the Great Migration by W. Stewart (William Stewart) Wallace

The periodic relationship which exists among all the properties of the elements—such, for example, as their ability to enter into various combinations—and [458] their atomic weights, indicate that this variation in atomicity is subject to one perfectly exact and general law, and it is only carbon and its near analogues which constitute cases of permanently preserved atomicity.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume II by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

This is the way he speaks on that matter (ch. 141, p. 765): 'He has too much acquaintance with Cartesianism' (it is of an able opponent he is speaking) 'not to know with what force it has been maintained in our day that there is no creature capable of producing motion, and that our soul is a purely passive subject in relation to sensations and ideas, and feelings of pain and of pleasure, etc.
— from Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von

Now slowly, almost imperceptibly, the wind went down, and the musgo rolled away, and when morning broke cold and drearily over the sea and hills, the sky was comparatively clear, our position could be clearly defined and our danger could be faced.
— from Wild Life in the Land of the Giants: A Tale of Two Brothers by Gordon Stables

No kudos to be gained; no acclaim of the multitude to ring in the pleased ear; no cheering clash of party conflict.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, 1890.05.10 by Various

His peculiar beauty, and a certain electrical power of attraction, seemed to form a constant circle of protection and forgiveness around him in the home of his foster-parents; and great
— from The Pearl of Orr's Island: A Story of the Coast of Maine by Harriet Beecher Stowe