Children are even more apt, if possible, than grown people, to catch the contagion of a panic terror.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

It follows that all transcendental ideas arrange themselves in three classes, the first of which contains the absolute (unconditioned) unity of the thinking subject, the second the absolute unity of the series of the conditions of a phenomenon, the third the absolute unity of the condition of all objects of thought in general.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

It hath been thought a vast commendation of a painter to say his figures seem to breathe; but surely it is a much greater and nobler applause, that they appear to think.
— from Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1 by Henry Fielding

Petition of several merchants, masters of ships, sail-makers, and manufacturers of sail-cloth, praying a charter of incorporation, to enable them to carry on and promote the said manufactory by a joint-stock.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

Moreover, whole dramata, and uniform scenes, or scenes that comprehend the lives and actions of men of one calling and profession, as many as either in thine own experience thou hast known, or by reading of ancient histories; (as the whole court of Adrianus, the whole court of Antoninus Pius, the whole court of Philippus, that of Alexander, that of Croesus): to set them all before thine eyes.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

So, too, indirect taboos depend for their strength on the mana of him who opposes them; if it is a chief or a priest, they are more powerful than those imposed by a common person.”
— from Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud

The child of a poor tradesman, he passed through many struggles in early youth, the memory of which ever remained in him as a fitful cause of dejection.
— from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater

We must show, moreover, the misconceptions and illusions that intrude into syllogisms, the major proposition of which pure reason has supplied—a proposition which has perhaps more of the character of a petitio than of a postulatum—and that proceed from experience upwards to its conditions.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

At this arbitration it was determined, with the consent of all parties, that lots should be thrown into a box, and the Greeks and Varings should draw which was first to ride, or to row, or to take place in a harbour, or to choose tent ground; and each side should be satisfied with what the drawing of the lots gave them.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

In order to estimate the amount of the public charges of a people two preliminaries are indispensable: it is necessary, in the first place, to know the wealth of that people; and in the second, to learn what portion of that wealth is devoted to the expenditure of the State.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

The Bee Guards were called out, and patrolled the city, alarm-bells rung, signal fires burned, and everybody was out with a lantern.
— from The Pot of Gold, and Other Stories by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

And this was the only refuge in a city of from six to eight thousand inhabitants, many of them boasting nobility, the capital of a province, the seat of a governor and a bishop, and head-quarters of a military district.
— from Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. by Thomas Forester

There was a large surging mass of people gathered about the train, but Grace was discovered at a distance; the crowd opened a pathway to the coach, and she came, timidly but gladly, to the President-elect, who told her that she might see that he had allowed his whiskers to grow at her request.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

A real poet he was, but desultory, rarely able to remain fixed at work and carry out a project to the end.
— from A Book of Cornwall by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

When she produces the certificate of a physician that she is attacked by an organic disease which renders it impossible for her to continue the calling of a prostitute; and, 3d.
— from The History of Prostitution: Its Extent, Causes, and Effects throughout the World by William W. Sanger

The error to suppose that under the rough cloth of a private trooper's uniform there cannot possibly be such aristocratic monopolies as nerves to wound.”
— from Under Two Flags by Ouida

demanding, a chance of added profit to compensate for his risk.
— from The Country's Need of Greater Railway Facilities and Terminals Address Delivered at the Annual Dinner of the Railway Business Association, New York City, December 19, 1912 by James J. (James Jerome) Hill

His minority was exposed to the almost inevitable calamities of domestic discord; his capital was surprised and plundered by Thair, a powerful king of Yemen, or Arabia; and the majesty of the royal family was degraded by the captivity of a princess, the sister of the deceased king.
— from History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 by Edward Gibbon

One-half of the balance would fear even to vote lest they might cause offense and prejudice their promotion—the sole consideration with many department clerks—while only a comparative few would openly support the opposite party and some of these would subsequently regret it.
— from Vanishing Landmarks: The Trend Toward Bolshevism by Leslie M. (Leslie Mortier) Shaw

Each nation bound itself under no circumstances to attack the other; each promised to give aid to the other, if requested, in case of its ally being attacked; each pledged itself to the extradition both of criminals flying from justice and of any other subjects wishing to change their allegiance; each stipulated for an amnesty of offences in the case of all persons thus surrendered.
— from Ancient Egypt by George Rawlinson