Sri Yukteswar used to poke gentle fun at the commonly inadequate conceptions of renunciation.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

It was printed for Paul Greenwood and sold "at the sign of the coffee mill and tobacco-roll in Cloath-fair near West-Smithfield, who selleth the best Arabian coffee powder and chocolate in cake or roll, after the Spanish fashion, etc."
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

He will observe, in this Abbaye Prison, the sudden massacre of the Priests being once over, a strange Court of Justice, or call it Court of Revenge and Wild-Justice, swiftly fashion itself, and take seat round a table, with the Prison-Registers spread before it;—Stanislas Maillard, Bastille-hero, famed Leader of the Menads, presiding.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

And by continuing the Motion of the Prisms, these Arcs increased and bended more and more about the said transparent spot, till they were compleated into Circles or Rings incompassing it, and afterwards continually grew more and more contracted.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

In the second case it is plainly presupposed that this cause is capable of representing purposes to itself, and consequently is an intelligent Being; at least it must be thought as acting in accordance with the laws of such a being.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

To examine this point concerning the effect of tragedy in a proper manner, we must previously consider how we are affected by the feelings of our fellow creatures in circumstances of real distress.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

When night hath past, the bright dawn comes In car of rosy hue; So drive the false bliss from thy mind, And thou shall see the true.
— from The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

But in the Republic he begins with the age at which the child is capable of receiving ideas, and boldly asserts, in language which sounds paradoxical to modern ears, that he must be taught the false before he can learn the true.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

They appear to have been written after Anne Boleyn had been sent away from court, in consequence of reports injurious to her reputation, which had begun to be publicly circulated.
— from The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn; With Notes by King of England Henry VIII

He would have been seven times more epicure and atheist than he was; for as the temporal 72 sword is to be drawn with great circumspection in cases of religion, so it is a thing monstrous to put it into the hands of the common people; let that be left unto the Anabaptists, and other furies.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

20:14 and 21:10-14, we have these commands and regulations given, with an express prohibition of the enslavement of these captives, in case of repudiation by the captors.
— from Is Slavery Sanctioned by the Bible? by Isaac Allen

The inferior maxilla is exposed to violence, but from its construction and consistence is capable of resisting a great degree of force.
— from Elements of Surgery by Robert Liston

General Burnside refused to give the order; and, nearly overwhelmed, apparently, by the fatal result of the attack, determined to form the ninth corps in column of regiments, and lead it in person against Marye's Hill, on the next morning.
— from A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee by John Esten Cooke

The introduction of coffee into this country is comparatively of recent date.
— from The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton

In reality, whatever conclusion may be drawn from the fact, the greater part of modern property, whether, like mineral rights and urban ground-rents, it is merely a form of private taxation which the law allows certain persons to levy on the industry of others, or whether, like property in capital, it consists of rights to payment for instruments which the capitalist cannot himself use but puts at the disposal of those who can, has as its essential feature that it confers upon its owners income unaccompanied by personal service.
— from The Acquisitive Society by R. H. (Richard Henry) Tawney

The information from an unknown object must still be received alone, and without distraction, although by that time the child is capable of receiving it more quickly.
— from A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education by James Gall

'If you call it coming on,' replied his wife, with a touch of acid superiority she caught momentarily from her overdressed surroundings.
— from The Promise of Air by Algernon Blackwood