For only after a choice has been made are the resolutions, which vary in different individuals, an indication of the individual character which is different in each; while the action of the brute depends only upon the presence or absence of the impression, supposing this impression to be in general a motive for its species.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

THE DISCOVERY OF ULYSSES TO EURYCLEA.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

Thus, pure reason, which at first seemed to promise us nothing less than the extension of our cognition beyond the limits of experience, is found, when thoroughly examined, to contain nothing but regulative principles, the virtue and function of which is to introduce into our cognition a higher degree of unity than the understanding could of itself.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

The rite of discalceation , or uncovering the feet on approaching holy ground, is derived from the Latin word discalceare , to pluck off one's shoes.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

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— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

Well, whatever may be his fate, we have the comfort of knowing that we have done our utmost to save him.
— from Lady Susan by Jane Austen

We have seen that the sterility of hybrids, which have their reproductive organs in an imperfect condition, is a very different case from the difficulty of uniting two pure species, which have their reproductive organs perfect; yet these two distinct cases run to a certain extent parallel.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

And there met with Sir W. Coventry (who was there out of great generosity, and no person of quality there but he) and went with him into his coach, and being in it with him there happened this extraordinary case, one of the most romantique that ever I heard of in my life, and could not have believed, but that I did see it; which was this:—About a dozen able, lusty, proper men come to the coach-side with tears in their eyes, and one of them that spoke for the rest begun and says to Sir W. Coventry, “We are here a dozen of us that have long known and loved, and served our dead commander, Sir Christopher Mings, and have now done the last office of laying him in the ground.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

She was often with her cousin, Edward VI., and her decided opinions upon the Reformation, together with her arguments in its support, and her dislike to the Romish errors which [Pg 28] they both condemned, made the boy-monarch respect her highly, and there was a warm attachment between the youthful cousins.
— from The Childhood of Distinguished Women by Selina A. Bower

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— from Sunny Memories Of Foreign Lands, Volume 1 by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Had I not been informed by the advertisement of the "Grand Thespian Wigwam," that this was a specimen of a sterling "legitimate Classic Drama," I should have supposed it to be a blood and thunder graft of another stock transplanted here for the delectation of "upper-tendom"—from the rustic shades of the unmentionable Bowery.
— from Doesticks: What He Says by Q. K. Philander Doesticks

We did our utmost to keep the boat’s head to the sea, as the only hope we had of saving her from going down.
— from Arctic Adventures by William Henry Giles Kingston

Having thus adverted to the principles upon which various theorists have in part based their attacks on the problem of the estimation of the duration of geological ages, I may now make a few more detailed observations upon those later periods during which man is, now, generally admitted to have existed, and refer lightly to the earlier times which some, but not all, geologists consider to have furnished evidences of his presence.
— from Mythical Monsters by Charles Gould

The difficulty of uniting the farmers of America for any form of co-operative endeavor long ago became proverbial.
— from Chapters in Rural Progress by Kenyon L. (Kenyon Leech) Butterfield