Man considering himself in this way as an intelligence places himself thereby in a different order of things and in a relation to determining grounds of a wholly different kind when on the one hand he thinks of himself as an intelligence endowed with a will, and consequently with causality, and when on the other he perceives himself as a phenomenon in the world of sense (as he really is also), and affirms that his causality is subject to external determination according to laws of nature.
— from Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals by Immanuel Kant

It is to be hoped that this discovery will give a new impetus to the interest in Greek literature, which must be at 263 a low ebb if Mr. Mahaffy be correct in stating that "even diligent scholars find it a task to read a dialogue of Plato honestly through."
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, August, 1880 by Various

The immigrants who have come in since those early days have been, if anything, of even lower grade than their forerunners.
— from Prejudices, Third Series by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

Next, from whence before he came, I saw the eagle dart into the hull O' th' car, and leave it with his feathers lin'd; And then a voice, like that which issues forth From heart with sorrow riv'd, did issue forth From heav'n, and, "O poor bark of mine!"
— from The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Purgatory, Volume 5 by Dante Alighieri

Formidable long-term challenges include: servicing the external debt; preparing the economy for freer trade with the EU; and improving education and attracting foreign investment to boost living standards and job prospects for Morocco's youthful population.
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Nor can I, shouldst thou enquire, declare whether the hatred of the Cyclop , or the love of Acis, was the stronger in me.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV by Ovid

"Broome is close in," said the engineer decisively.
— from Frontier Boys in Frisco by Wyn Roosevelt

Formidable long-term challenges include: servicing the external debt; modernizing the industrial sector; preparing the economy for freer trade with the EU and US; and improving education and attracting foreign investment to boost living standards and job prospects for Morocco's youth.
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency