The reason of this is to be sought in the fact that whatever we present in intuition according to the precept of the Judgement (and thus represent aesthetically) is always a phenomenon and thus a quantum.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

Knud was in the foremost row, and shouted as joyously as the rest; and when the carriage stopped before a brilliantly lighted house, Knud placed himself close to the door of her carriage.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

But just as they reached a proper age for their union misfortunes had fallen heavily on both and made it necessary that they should resort to personal labor for a bare subsistence.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Wermund said that his son had judged all things rightly, and bade him first learn the use of arms, since he had been little accustomed to them.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

"I haven't strength of mind enough to clear up now, so we will sober ourselves with a funeral," said Jo, as they rose, and Miss Crocker made ready to go, being eager to tell the new story at another friend's dinner table.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

For he cares for justice and the right, and neither parents nor kinsfolk nor friends can persuade him to do them a favour and betray the cause of justice.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

The walls were painted with decorations of very beautiful designs, representing the cornfields, just as the Roman artists in Italy loved to depict the vine in their mural paintings.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

They arise out of the tendency of the human mind to regard good and evil both as relative and absolute; just as the riddles about motion are to be explained by the double conception of space or matter, which the human mind has the power of regarding either as continuous or discrete.
— from Phaedo by Plato

The columns of the upper tier should be one fourth smaller than those of the lower, because, for the purpose of bearing the load, what is below ought to be stronger than what is above, and also, because we ought to imitate nature as seen in the case of things growing; for example, in round smooth-stemmed trees, like the fir, cypress, and pine, every one of which is rather thick just above the roots and then, as it goes on increasing in height, tapers off naturally and symmetrically in growing up to the top.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

Printed by Jhones, at the Rose and Crowne, neere Holburne Bridge, 1590.
— from Shakspeare and His Times [Vol. 2 of 2] Including the Biography of the Poet; criticisms on his genius and writings; a new chronology of his plays; a disquisition on the on the object of his sonnets; and a history of the manners, customs, and amusements, superstitions, poetry, and elegant literature of his age by Nathan Drake

Temperament is the veto or limitation-power in the constitution, very justly applied to restrain an opposite excess in the constitution, but absurdly offered as a bar to original equity.
— from Essays — Second Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Launching Imshallah below the old ferry-tower at two o’clock, we reached the little town of Entiat, just above the river and rapids of that name, at five.
— from Down the Columbia by Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman

And I said—I have a bad habit of telling people they had better take inventory and see if they are right, and I told him, I said, "You had better take inventory and find out where you stand because you are just at the right age that you can get in a lot of trouble thinking like that."
— from Warren Commission (10 of 26): Hearings Vol. X (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

Translators often render the word “Companion” (Angel, also Adept) by “Rabbi,” just as the Rishis are called Gurus.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 2 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

He gazed at it on each of his journeys, amid the roar and jolting of his engine.
— from The Monomaniac (La bête humaine) by Émile Zola

Saadiah (Arabic, Said) ben Joseph, from the town Fayum in Upper Egypt (892–942), was the founder of scientific Judaism amongst the Rabbanites, and the creator of religious philosophy in the Middle Ages.
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 3 (of 6) by Heinrich Graetz

"It has been a long year—for me," replied Justin, and the rival artist thrilled with responsive admiration.
— from Other People's Business: The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale by Harriet L. (Harriet Lummis) Smith

Too much belligerency needs to be curtailed; too little needs to be increased; the plain boy has just about the right amount, and needs a good deal of letting alone.
— from The Boy and His Gang by Joseph Adams Puffer