That, however, which is present in this or that place, or any operation going on, or result taking place in the things themselves, with the exception of change of place, is not given to us by intuition.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Books Recommended: Armstrong, Sir Henry Raeburn ; Armstrong, Gainsborough ; Armstrong, Sir Joshua Reynolds ; Burton, Catalogue of Pictures in National Gallery ; Chesneau, La Peinture Anglaise ; Cook, Art in England ; Cunningham, Lives of the most Eminent British Artists ; Dobson, Life of Hogarth ; Gilchrist, Life of Etty ; Gilchrist, Life of Blake ; Hamerton, Life of Turner ; Henderson, Constable ; Hunt, The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood ( Contemporary Review, Vol. 49 ); Leslie, Sir Joshua Reynolds ; Leslie, Life of Constable ; Martin and Newbery, Glasgow School of Painting ; McKay, Scottish School of Painting ; Monkhouse, British Contemporary Artists ; Redgrave, Dictionary of Artists of the English School ; Romney, Life of George Romney ; Rossetti, Fine Art, chiefly Contemporary ; Ruskin, Pre-Raphaelitism ; Ruskin, Art of England ; Sandby, History of Royal Academy of Arts ; William Bell Scott, Autobiography ; Scott, British Landscape Painters ; Stephens, Catalogue of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum ; Swinburne, William Blake ; Temple, Painting in the Queen's Reign ; Van Dyke, Old English Masters ; Wedmore, Studies in English Art ; Wilmot-Buxton, English Painters ; Wright, Life of Richard Wilson . FIG.
— from A Text-Book of the History of Painting by John Charles Van Dyke

If her wistful cast of physiognomy is not gone, no more is her careless smile.
— from Shirley by Charlotte Brontë

The general character of Parnell is not great extent of comprehension or fertility of mind.
— from Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2 by Samuel Johnson

"Your chief of police is no gentleman," declared certain prominent merchants, arrested for smuggling opium, and naturally aggrieved and indignant at such unheard-of treatment.
— from Ray's Daughter: A Story of Manila by Charles King

, is based on what life has taught me, that the fundamental character of people is not greatly alterable, but that the alteration of their circumstances will certainly influence the effect and working of their capacities and instincts.
— from Women's Wild Oats: Essays on the Re-fixing of Moral Standards by C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine) Hartley

The cost of planting is not great.
— from Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest Protecting Existing Forests and Growing New Ones, from the Standpoint of the Public and That of the Lumberman, with an Outline of Technical Methods by E. T. (Edward Tyson) Allen