In the explanation of given phenomena, no other things and no other grounds of explanation can be employed than those which stand in connection with the given phenomena according to the known laws of experience.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

"You medical gentlemen must consult which sort of black draught you will prescribe, eh, Mr. Lydgate?" "I know little of either," said Lydgate; "but in general, appointments are apt to be made too much a question of personal liking.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

We took a kind leave of each other, and I made him promise he would come to see me at my house in Redriff.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World by Jonathan Swift

For seeing we have no way to increase our treasure by mines of gold or silver at home, and can have nothing without money or ware from other countries abroad, it followeth necessarily, that if we follow the counsel of that good old husband, Marcus Cato, saying, “ Oportet patrem familias vendacem esse, non emacem ,” and do carry more commodities in value over the seas than we bring hither from thence, that then the realm shall receive that overplus in money; but if we bring from beyond the seas merchandise of more value than that which we do send over may countervail, then the realm payeth for that overplus in ready money, and consequently is a loser by that ill husbandry; and therefore in this part great and heedful regard must be had that symmetry and due proportion be kept, lest otherwise either the realm be defrauded of her treasure, or the subjects corrupted in vanity, by excessive importation of superfluous and needless merchandise, or else that we feel penury, even in our greatest plenty and store, by immoderate exportation of our own needful commodities.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

Li rimarkis ke ĉi tiu ne tiel alten levis la akvon, tial li estis certa ke la oro en ĝi estas multe falsita.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

For many years, they had known little of each other, and the Count received the first intelligence of his death, which happened in a distant part of France, together with the instruments, that gave him possession of the domain Chateau-le-Blanc; but it was not till the following year, that he determined to visit that estate, when he designed to pass the autumn there.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

With sobbing voice that lord addressed: “Ah me, by false Kaikeyí led, Of evil race, to evil bred, I took no counsel of the sage, Nor sought advice from skill and age, I asked no lord his aid to lend, I called no citizen or friend.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Perhaps some vague notion that she, too, might visit the continent, and thus escape the necessity of paying them at all, might mix itself with her meditations; but at any rate she very speedily decided upon leaving Cheltenham the following day without mentioning her intention to her milliner, mercer, tailor, shoemaker, hosier, perfumer, livery-stable keeper, librarian, or even to her hair-dresser.
— from The Widow Barnaby. Vol. 3 (of 3) by Frances Milton Trollope

Hypothetical cases may be put in which the character of the change could be deduced from the known laws of electrical action.
— from The Earth as Modified by Human Action by George P. (George Perkins) Marsh

The Carrion Crow of Europe and Asia closely resembles the North American Crow in form, size and habits, but is perhaps a little more destructive, attacking and killing lambs, or even weakly sheep.
— from Birds and Nature, Vol. 10 No. 1 [June 1901] by Various

" She drank obediently, while the dwarf chuckled with awful glee and the king looked on eagerly, expecting her to fall dead at his feet.
— from The Enchanted Island of Yew Whereon Prince Marvel Encountered the High Ki of Twi and Other Surprising People by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

In Iceland there is the kindred legend of Egil brother of Wayland Smith, the Norse Vulcan.
— from Myths and Myth-Makers Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology by John Fiske

For the hope she will not always seem, Caught, but a laurel or a stream, On time; on her unsearchable Love-wisdom; on their work done well, Discreet with mutual aid; on might Of shared affliction and delight; On pleasures that so childish be They’re ’shamed to let the children see, By which life keeps the valleys low Where love does naturally grow; On much whereof hearts have account, Though heads forget; on babes, chief fount Of union, and for which babes are No less than this for them, nay far More, for the bond of man and wife To the very verge of future life Strengthens, and yearns for brighter day, While others, with their use, decay; And, though true marriage purpose keeps Of offspring, as the centre sleeps Within the wheel, transmitting thence Fury to the circumference, Love’s self the noblest offspring is, And sanction of the nuptial kiss; Lastly, on either’s primal curse, Which help and sympathy reverse To blessings.
— from The Victories of Love, and Other Poems by Coventry Patmore

"This shews you know little of Erminus.
— from Barbarossa, and Other Tales by Paul Heyse

Having failed in this quarter, the king had resorted to a Lombard, who soon was able to accommodate him; but when the king learnt on enquiry that the money so obtained had been advanced to the Lombard merchant by the very citizens who had refused to lend it to the king himself, his anger knew no bounds, 709 and he summoned John Hende, the mayor, the sheriffs, the aldermen, and twenty-four of the chief citizens 710 of the City to attend him in June, at Nottingham.
— from London and the Kingdom - Volume 1 A History Derived Mainly from the Archives at Guildhall in the Custody of the Corporation of the City of London. by Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson) Sharpe