181 It is easy to explain why the satisfaction in the pure aesthetical judgement in the case of beautiful Art is not combined with an immediate interest as it is in the case of beautiful Nature.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

Nobody has ever said anything plausible, nor, as we previously showed, has anyone been able to discover, Pg 123 Greek text by any means, any other cause for the secretion of urine; we necessarily appear mad if we maintain that the urine passes into the kidneys in the form of vapour, and we certainly cut a poor figure when we talk about the tendency of a vacuum to become refilled; 178 this idea is foolish in the case of blood, and impossible, nay, perfectly nonsensical, in the case of the urine.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

This anomaly is characteristic of Berlioz, and is natural to his southern temperament."
— from Musicians of To-Day by Romain Rolland

Adjustment continued until the offending process was quite aligned with its fellows would constitute overadjustment, but adjustment is not usually continued after all symptoms have subsided, so that actually small harm occurs through failure to detect bending.
— from Technic and Practice of Chiropractic by Joy Maxwell Loban

(Could one buy an "Imperial" nowadays if one wanted it?
— from Seeing and Hearing by George William Erskine Russell

O unwind all the swathing clothes Of bondage and ignorance, nations’ woes: Break the dark might of enchantment’s spell, Burst all thy bonds, and the chorus swell!
— from Renascence: A Book of Verse by Walter Crane

Whether he fell down some disused shaft or was carried off by Arabs is not known, and probably will always remain a mystery.
— from Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia An Account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence Amongst the Women of the East by A. Hume-Griffith

Two days after the bird was flown a warrant from the lord chief justice arrived to take her up, the messenger of which returned with the news of her flight, highly to the satisfaction of Amelia, and consequently of Booth, and, indeed, not greatly to the grief of the doctor.
— from Amelia — Volume 3 by Henry Fielding

Flaunting beautiful flowers (which I greatly love), yet all the while spreading wicked roots out of sight, choking everything it lays hold of, turning up in the most unlooked-for places—but there is no need to write more under this heading; a healthy crop of bindweed (and I never knew one that wasn’t most irritatingly healthy) could give points to a preacher every Sunday in the year, and then have enough to spare for the week-night services.
— from Between the Larch-woods and the Weir by Flora Klickmann

Her famous visitation of the cholera hospitals may doubtless have been done partly for effect, but even in this sense it showed a lofty appreciation of the duties of an Empress, and could not have been conceived or carried out by an ignoble nature.
— from Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy

To effect this we must, however, do what the earliest founders of poetry find mythology did: search Nature closely, bear constantly in mind her one great principle of potent Being, continually displaying itself in all things as life and death, mutually creating each other, and acting in all organic life by the mystery of Love, Then, while establishing those affinities and correspondences between natural objects which constitute Poetry, let it be ever present to the mind that each is, so to speak, always polarized with its positive end of activity, creation or birth, and its negative of cessation, decay and death.
— from The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various