Besides, common logic presents me with a complete and systematic catalogue of all the simple operations of reason; and it is my task to answer the question how far reason can go, without the material presented and the aid furnished by experience.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Yet did not the others lie still, when they could not throw at the Romans from a higher place; for they then made sallies out of the city, like private robbers, by parties, and pulled away the hurdles that covered the workmen, and killed them when they were thus naked; and when those workmen gave way, these cast away the earth that composed the bank, and burnt the wooden parts of it, together with the hurdles, till at length Vespasian perceived that the intervals there were between the works were of disadvantage to him; for those spaces of ground afforded the Jews a place for assaulting the Romans.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

[212] Hugh Clopton, mercer, mayor, deceased 1496; John Dimocke, Anselme Becker, John Julian, and William Ilford, chantries there; Sir Brian Tewke, knight, treasurer of the chamber to King Henry VIII., and Dame Grisilde his wife, that deceased after him, were there buried 1536; John Fetiplace, draper, esquire, 1464, and Joan his wife; Sir Hugh Witch, mercer, mayor, son to Richard Witch, entombed there 1466: he gave to his third wife three thousand [254] pounds, and to maids’ marriages five hundred marks; Sir John Leigh, 1564, with this epitaph: “No wealth, no prayse, no bright renowne, no skill, No force, no fame, no princes loue, no toyle, Though forraigne land by trauell search ye will, No faithfull seruice of the country soyle, Can life prolong one minute of an houre, But death at length will execute his power; For Sir John Leigh to sundry countries knowne, A worthy knight well of his prince esteemde, By seeing much, to great experience growne, Though safe on seas, though sure on land he seemde, Yet here he lyes too soone by death opprest, His fame yet liues, his soule in heauen doth rest.”
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

NON car j'ai quand même été un peu surpris du "classicisme" des propositions de lecteurs : on y retrouvait quand même assez massivement les lieux communs les plus éculés (pardon pour le jeu de mot…) des feuilletons télévisés.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Le bourgmestre chancela sous le coup et se mit en fureur contre le paysan; mais celui-ci se contenta de lui montrer le papier qu'il avait signé et se retira fort tranquillement .
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

mer , f. , vaste amas d'eau salée qui couvre la plus grande partie du globe.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

No se puede hacer el casamiento con la precipitación que tú deseas, 25 y que daría lugar a interpretaciones quizás desfavorables a la honra de mi querida hija...
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

A few degrees before we crossed the line, the sky became overcast with heavy dark clouds, which French sailors call " le pot du noir " and our English tars "the doldrums;" the barometer ceased to indicate any atmospheric changes.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various

I made the most of this short opportunity to observe the doings of our men in this conquered land paid for with German blood.
— from The Journal of Submarine Commander von Forstner by Forstner, Georg-Günther, Freiherr von

When we arrived at the château itself the officers, who had evidently just been lunching, came out to meet us, wondering, apparently, who this courageous lady (poor trembling me!) could possibly be.
— from In the Courts of Memory, 1858-1875; from Contemporary Letters by L. de (Lillie de) Hegermann-Lindencrone

el tienpo sin probecho digo esto porque tengo entendido algunos de los que de alla binieron holgarian oy como fuese para pasar adelante boluer a cobrar lo perdido y otros holgarian oy
— from The Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542. Excerpted from the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1892-1893, Part 1. by George Parker Winship

Immediately beyond this you are received into the inevitable labyrinth of crooked lanes, peculiar to an Arab town.
— from The Picturesque Antiquities of Spain Described in a series of letters, with illustrations representing Moorish palaces, cathedrals, and other monuments of art, contained in the cities of Burgos, Valladolid, Toledo, and Seville. by Nathaniel Armstrong Wells