The towns of Sumner and Oakland, in Jefferson County, in the eastern extremity of Koshkonong Prairie also received a small contingent of Norwegian immigrant settlers in 1842 and 1843 respectively.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

If we review our cognitions in their entire extent, we shall find that the peculiar business of reason is to arrange them into a system, that is to say, to give them connection according to a principle.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Moreover, those who, though possessed of this knowledge, are ignorant of nature, and of the most probable causes of the phænomena, are no more protected from fear than if they were in the most complete ignorance; they even experience the most lively fears, for the trouble, with which the knowledge of which they are possessed inspires them, can find no issue, and is not dissipated by a clear perception of the reasons of these phænomena.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

What makes it continuous, consecutive, or concentrated is that each earlier act prepares the way for later acts, while these take account of or reckon with the results already attained—the basis of all responsibility.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

A second and greater wave is rolling in—community of wives and children; is this either expedient or possible?
— from The Republic by Plato

The ‘vices’ which could improve the expression, even for the pure eyes of Emerson, are those which represent the struggle [ 447 ] of human nature to exist in truth, albeit in misdirection and reaction, amid pious hypocrisies.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

Rodolphe came in the evening earlier than usual.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

For the final goal of world-revolution is not Socialism or even Communism, it is not a change in the existing economic system, it is not the destruction of civilization in a material sense; the revolution desired by the leaders is a moral and spiritual revolution, an anarchy of ideas by which all standards set up throughout nineteen centuries shall be reversed, all honoured traditions trampled under foot, and above all the Christian ideal finally obliterated.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Persian Coffee Service, 1737 Gone are the "luxurious and magnificent" coffee houses of Constantinople (if they ever existed—at least as we understand luxury and magnificence) which first brought the beverage world-wide fame; such caffinets as the one pictured by Thomas Allom and described by the Rev. Robert Walsh, in Constantinople, Illustrated : The caffinet, or coffee-house, is something more splendid, and the Turk expends all his notions of finery and elegance on this, his favorite place of indulgence.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

For one thing, the first thing which must strike any stranger to the city is the enormous extent of the souvenir business there.
— from Turns about Town by Robert Cortes Holliday

His nephew Gratian, who then became master of the East, went in all haste to Constantinople, by his general, Theodosius, vanquished the Goths, and by several edicts recalled the Catholic prelates, and restored the liberty of the church in the Eastern empire.
— from The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. January, February, March by Alban Butler

In addition the Sulpicians built two fortified farmhouses as redoubts or citadels in the extreme ends of the settlement to guard the labourers there—that of Ste.
— from Montreal, 1535-1914. Vol. 1. Under the French Régime, 1535-1760 by William H. (William Henry) Atherton

“I’m sure you’re right, sir,” said Bradly; “she’ll have cause in the end even to bless the Lord for this affliction.
— from True to his Colours The Life that Wears Best by Theodore P. Wilson

Captain Nemo replied in a solemn voice, handing me the spyglass, which showed the orb of day cut into two exactly equal parts by the horizon.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

Forty new court rooms will not be needed for some years, and there will be a saving of interest to the city if the entire expenditure is not made at one time.
— from Down Town Brooklyn A Report to the Comptroller of the City of New York on Sites for Public Buildings and the Relocation of the Elevated Railroad Tracks now in Lower Fulton Street, Borough of Brooklyn by N.Y.). Committee of Ten Brooklyn (New York

Any child could tell you that words like these "sound just like what they mean"; and yet it would be impossible for the critical intellect to explain exactly wherein lies the fitness between sound and sense in such a word as "mud."
— from Materials and Methods of Fiction With an Introduction by Brander Matthews by Clayton Meeker Hamilton

In a little white cottage tent, at the end of a long row of minutely similar, little white cottage tents, sat David and Carol in the early evening of a day in May, looking wistfully out at the wide sweep of gray mesa land, reaching miles away to the mountains, blue and solemn in the distance.
— from Sunny Slopes by Ethel Hueston