[392] Accordingly, whereas in some passages [393] the “autonomy” which he identifies with “Freedom” is spoken of as “autonomy of will ,” in others we are told that the “moral law expresses nothing else than autonomy of the pure practical reason : that is, Freedom.”
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

All proofs of the complete congruence of two given figures (where the one can in every respect be substituted for the other) come ultimately to this that they may be made to coincide; which is evidently nothing else than a synthetical proposition resting upon immediate intuition, and this intuition must be pure, or given a priori , otherwise the proposition could not rank as apodeictically certain, but would have empirical certainty only.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

I couldn’t point to a time when men had been equal, nor even to a time when the wish to be equal had made them happier in other ways.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

Pepe Rey estaba un si es no es turbado a causa del giro que diera su tía a una vana disputa festiva en la que tomó parte tan sólo por acalorar un poco la conversación.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Edgar Ney explained the affair to him, and left him only after seeing him leave the barracks of the Rue Verte at the head of the first regiment.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

But Æson is not among those congratulating, being now near death, and worn out with the years of old age; when thus the son of Æson addresses Medea : “O wife, to whom I confess that I owe my safety, although thou hast granted me everything, and the sum of thy favors exceeds all belief; still , if thy enchantments can effect this (and what can enchantments not effect?), take away from my own years, and, when taken, add them to those of my father.”
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

The diphthongs in Esperanto contain an i or u sound as the second element, but in order to avoid confusion with combinations of vowels not forming diphthongs (as in naiva , like English naïve , etc.), they are written with j and ŭ instead.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

Did I not guess what Work was even now engrossing the Attention of my Friend?
— from His Majesty's Well-Beloved An Episode in the Life of Mr. Thomas Betteron as told by His Friend John Honeywood by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

The island Kadyak [57] makes, with Aghunalashka, Umnak, and the small islands lying between them, a continued Archipelago, extending N. E. and E. N. E. towards America: it lies by the ship's reckoning in 230 degrees of longitude; so that it cannot be far distant from that part of the American coast which Beering formerly touched at.
— from Account of the Russian Discoveries between Asia and America To which are added, the conquest of Siberia, and the history of the transactions and commerce between Russia and China by William Coxe

He had it now, however, in contemplation to do a great deal on common roads, and, with that view, had taken out a patent for an entirely new engine, the arrangements in which were calculated to obviate all the difficulties which had hitherto stood in the way of traveling on common roads."
— from The Life of George Stephenson and of his Son Robert Stephenson Comprising Also a History of the Invention and Introduction of the Railway Locomotive by Samuel Smiles

The reader may, however, be referred, for every needful explanation, to Archbishop Whately's Elements of Logic , where he will find stated with philosophical precision, and explained with remarkable perspicuity, the whole of the common doctrine of the syllogism.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive by John Stuart Mill

He thought so little, however, of distinctions gained so easily, that he either forgot, or at all events neglected, even to apply for his gold medal till several years afterwards; when, happening to be in Dublin, and conversation turning upon the prize which he had obtained, he said, in a modest, casual kind of way, to a friend, "By the way, I never went after the medal; but I think, as I'm here, I'll go and see about it.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 by Various

The question of Steam Fire Engines next engaged the attention of the Committee.
— from Report of a special committee of the City Council, on the improvement of the Fire Department and also, on the best means of obtaining an additional supply of water for fire purposes, for the city of Halifax, N.S. by Halifax (N.S.). City Council. Special Committee on the Improvement of the Fire Department