For what is requisite to the latter concept is so essentially different from everything which natural concepts contain and can teach, that there is need of a particular ground of proof quite independent of the former, in order to supply the concept of the original Being adequately for Theology and to infer its existence.—The moral proof (which it is true only proves the Being of God in a practical though indispensable aspect of Reason) would preserve all its force, if we found in the world
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

He was clad in spotless evening dress, was Freddie, and looked very handsome—he was a beautiful boy, with light golden hair and the head of an Antinous.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Perdite amavit mulierculam quandam, illius amplexibus acquiescens, summa cum indignatione suorum et dolore.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Opinions fluctuated about the division, some, but the minority, fancying Government would have a majority because the proposed Committee is so excessively difficult and in all ways objectionable; but when it became known that the Derbyites meant to vote in a body for the motion, no one doubted the result, and it became only a question of numbers.
— from The Greville Memoirs, Part 3 (of 3), Volume 1 (of 2) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1852 to 1860 by Charles Greville

(1) They argue that efficient causality is something essentially Divine, and therefore cannot be communicated to creatures.
— from Ontology, or the Theory of Being by P. (Peter) Coffey

Who's to question a man doing Stations of the Cross if somebody else does 'em at the same time?"
— from The Rat Race by Jay Franklin

It began to feel the stronger pull of those hidden hands that had carried it so easily down The Bend.
— from The Re-Creation of Brian Kent by Harold Bell Wright

When there was no play, we took airings and had collations; in short, every day brought something new.
— from Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV. and of the Regency — Complete by Orléans, Charlotte-Elisabeth, duchesse d'

On the 28th July, he met the Parliament at York, which continued in session eight days, and sent forth a proclamation to the people, with these concluding remarks: “We are engaged in an awful and eventful contest.
— from History of the settlement of Upper Canada (Ontario,) with special reference to the Bay Quinté by William Canniff

The infant was rather delicate though healthy; but safe in its mother's fostering cares it strengthened every day, without those cares——
— from Mystery and Confidence: A Tale. Vol. 2 by Elizabeth Sibthorpe Pinchard

To conceal it seemed equally dangerous, if not more so.
— from Don Orsino by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford