The ordinary metaphysics had its uses, in that it sought out the elementary conceptions of the pure understanding in order to make them clear through analysis, and definite by explanation.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

In spite of the excited condition in which he was, the sentence about technique had sent a pang to Mihailov’s heart, and looking angrily at Vronsky he suddenly scowled.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

And if we should decide to do so we must finally have the courage to assert, "In some of the examples cited, the product of the slip also makes sense.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

“In spite of the extenuating circumstances, my lord?”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The Iambic Septenarius of the early comedy is not properly a “tetrameter catalectic” like the Greek, for the penultimate syllable is sometimes resolved, which is never the case in the Greek catalectic tetrameter.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

[198] This seems to me to be inserted for this purpose, that here again the reckoning of the times may start from Adam himself,—a purpose which the writer had not in view in speaking of the earthly city, as if God mentioned it, but did not take account of its duration.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Barnacles (or Breys )—horse curbs—occur in some of the earlier coats, as in the arms of Wyatt
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

In some of them every cause is to be tried in a court of common law, and upon that foundation every action may be considered as an action at common law, to be determined by a jury, if the parties, or either of them, choose it.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

It follows that we regard reason, in spite of the empirical conditions of the act, as completely free, and therefore, therefore, as in the present case, culpable.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

The infidel historian, in speaking of the early Christians, and their refusal to join the Roman army, sneeringly inquires, "What would have become of the empire, surrounded as it was on all sides by barbarians, if every one had indulged in such pusillanimous ideas as these?"
— from Notes on the Book of Deuteronomy, Volume II by Charles Henry Mackintosh

Spain was at this time governed by Philip II. , son of the emperor Charles, one of the most bigoted Catholics of the age, and allied with Catharine de Medicis of France for the entire suppression of Protestantism.
— from A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges by John Lord

In spite of these edicts, children are now taken away, as Gilli informs us, under pretence of their being illegitimate.
— from Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete by William Hogan

In spite of the economic consolidation at the beginning of the Later Han dynasty, and in spite of the more balanced trade, the political situation within China steadily worsened from A.D. 80 onwards.
— from A History of China by Wolfram Eberhard

Another extinct volcano known as the Cofre de Perote is situated on the eastern coast of Mexico, east of Ixtaccihuatl, about thirty miles north of Orizaba.
— from The Wonder Book of Volcanoes and Earthquakes by Edwin J. (Edwin James) Houston

In the latter part of the Middle Ages, Aragon , from its situation on the eastern coast, played an important part in the politics of Europe.
— from Outlines of Universal History, Designed as a Text-book and for Private Reading by George Park Fisher

To forge, counterfeit or imitate any Postage Stamp issued or used under the authority of this Act, or by or under the authority of the Government or proper authority of the United Kingdom, or of any British North American Province, or of any Foreign Country, or knowingly to use any such forged, counterfeit or imitated stamp, or to engrave, cut, sink or make any plate, die or other thing whereby to forge, counterfeit or imitate such stamp or any part or portion thereof, except by the permission in writing of the Provincial Post Master General, or of some officer or person who under the regulations to be made in that behalf, may lawfully grant such permission, or to have possession of any such plate, die or other thing as aforesaid, without such permission as aforesaid, or to forge, counterfeit or unlawfully imitate, use or affix to or upon any letter or packet, any stamp, signature, initials, or other mark or sign purporting that such letter or packet ought to pass free of postage, or at a lower rate of postage, or that the postage thereon or any part thereof hath been pre-paid or ought to be paid by or charged to any person, department or party whomsoever, shall be felony, punishable by imprisonment in the Provincial Penitentiary for life.
— from Canada: Its Postage Stamps and Postal Stationery by Clifton A. (Clifton Armstrong) Howes

In spite of the evident charitableness of this Christian design, and the irrefragable calculations upon which it was based, this company died a victim to the ignorance and unthankfulness of our fellow-creatures.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 63, No. 391, May, 1848 by Various

In the letter of Pliny to Trajan, it is said of the early Christians “ quod essent soliti carmen Christo quasi Deo dicere invicem. ”
— from Systematic Theology (Volume 1 of 3) by Augustus Hopkins Strong

Thus our Aquitainian forbears, by their successful translation into stone of the eastern cupola, prepared the way for the groined vault, the embryo of which is clearly traceable in the pendentives of the dome at St. Front.
— from Gothic Architecture by Edouard Corroyer