The Inquisitor should have the Tables before him: but the Victim should have nothing but a blank Diagram, and the Counters with which he is to represent the various Propositions named by his friend, e.g. “Some y exist”, “No y′ are x ”, “All x are y ”, &c. &c. pg035 TABLE III.
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

171 An important light is thrown on the situation by M. Funck-Brentano in this passage: As the Templars had houses in all countries, they practised the financial operations of the international banks of our times; they were acquainted with letters of change, orders payable at sight, they instituted dividends and annuities on deposited capital, advanced funds, lent on credit, controlled private accounts, undertook to raise taxes for the lay and ecclesiastical seigneurs.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

This was owing either to his religion, as is most probable, or to the purity of his passion, which was fixed on those things which matrimony only, and not criminal correspondence, could put him in possession of, or could give him any title to.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

“Why are you tormenting her, you fantastic creature?” cried Pyotr Stepanovitch in exasperation.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[4791] Vinum imprimis generosum, legumen, fabas, radices omnium generum bene conditas, et largo pipere aspersas, carduos hortulanos, lactucas, [4792] erucas, rapas, porros, caepas, nucem piceam, amygdalas dulces, electuaria, syrupos, succos, cochleas, conchas, pisces optime praeparatos, aviculas, testiculos animalium, ova, condimenta diversorum generum, molles lectos, pulvinaria, &c. Et quicquid fere medici impotentia rei venereae laboranti praescribunt, hoc quasi diasatyrion habent in delitiis, et his dapes multo delicatiores; mulsum, exquisitas et exoticas fruges, aromata, placentas, expressos succos multis ferculis variatos, ipsumque vinum suavitate vincentes, et quicquid culina, pharmacopaea, aut quaeque fere officina subministrare possit.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Then, for heaven's sake, having Harold Skimpole, a confiding child, petitioning you, the world, an agglomeration of practical people of business habits, to let him live and admire the human family, do it somehow or other, like good souls, and suffer him to ride his rocking-horse!"
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Suppose now that morality necessarily presupposed liberty, in the strictest sense, as a property of our will; suppose that reason contained certain practical, original principles a priori, which were absolutely impossible without this presupposition; and suppose, at the same time, that speculative reason had proved that liberty was incapable of being thought at all.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

This is what generally takes place at certain critical periods when, for a relatively short time, it is necessary to bring about a grave change of condition in a subject.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

I will continue calmly concerning persons with strong nerves who do not understand a certain refinement of enjoyment.
— from Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The phenomena have to be accepted at their face value and allowed to retain a certain empirical complexity; otherwise the seed of all science is sterilised and calculation cannot proceed for want of discernible and pregnant elements.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

against that conglomeration of absurd and destructive errors which its advocates have decorated with the name of liberalism, and as the defender of the true, genuine principles of liberty—that liberty which Catholic training and Christian civilization prepare the greatest possible number of men to enjoy, to the greatest possible extent, with the least possible danger to themselves and society.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 11, April, 1870 to September, 1870 by Various

Carya cordiformis (Pignut Hickory) 62 24.
— from Trees of Indiana First Revised Edition (Publication No. 13, Department of Conservation, State of Indiana) by Charles Clemon Deam

Imagine the musical sense in our own race so developed that a child could play a complicated instrument so soon as the little fingers gained sufficient force and flexibility to strike the notes.
— from Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: Second Series by Lafcadio Hearn

The bishop who began Auxerre Cathedral chose Cistercian Pontigny for his tomb.
— from How France Built Her Cathedrals: A Study in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly

Nevertheless, their careless "Cairo," "Port Said," "Bombay," "Ceylon," "Java," were as fascinating as the shining balls of a juggler when a dozen are in the air at the same moment.
— from Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu by Constance Fenimore Woolson

The wild indians bring from the woods many delicious fruits, pine-apples, plantains, bananas, nisperos , mamays, guavas, &c. as well as sweet potatoes, camotes , cabbage palm, palmitos , and yucas.
— from Historical and descriptive narrative of twenty years' residence in South America (Vol 2 of 3) Containing travels in Arauco, Chile, Peru, and Colombia; with an account of the revolution, its rise, progress, and results by Stevenson, William Bennet, active 1803-1825

“The Diamond Cave!” cried Peterkin.
— from The Coral Island by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

On October 4, 1849, the Truelove arrived at Hull from Davis Straits, and her commander, Captain Parker, reported that he had heard from some Eskimo that the Erebus and the Terror had been seen in the previous March fixed in the ice, and apparently abandoned in Prince Regent's Inlet.
— from The Romance of Polar Exploration Interesting Descriptions of Arctic and Antarctic Adventure from the Earliest Time to the Voyage of the "“Discovery”" by G. Firth Scott