The beautiful formations in the kingdom of organised nature speak loudly for the realism of the aesthetical purposiveness of nature; since we might assume that behind the production of the beautiful there is an Idea of the beautiful in the producing cause, viz.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

One of these bankers, who was once known to the police as the keeper of one notorious stale-beer dive and the active backer of others, is to-day an extensive manufacturer of macaroni, the owner of several big tenements and other real estate; and the capital, it is said, has all come out of his old business.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

The sword rose, the hind fell, the herd was driven, Fire glimpsed; and all the land from roof and rick, In drifts of smoke before a rolling wind, Streamed to the peak, and mingled with the haze And made it thicker; while the phantom king Sent out at times a voice; and here or there Stood one who pointed toward the voice, the rest Slew on and burnt, crying, 'No king of ours, No son of Uther, and no king of ours;'
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

And the kitchenmaid?" "I can't make a kitchenmaid out of nothing," said Mr. Linton gloomily.
— from Captain Jim by Mary Grant Bruce

If it is consistent with the principles of any version of religion to view with dumb indifference the errors it might correct, or the sorrows it might heal, it is not consistent with the instinctive prompting of knowledge or of natural sympathy.
— from Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues by John Alberger

A constant and keen observer of Nature, she has seized her marvellous witchery of light and color, and reproduced them in the glow of the moonlight on the water when in a stormy mood, and the silvery gleam has become an almost vivid orange tint.
— from Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. by Clara Erskine Clement Waters

Could she place faith in his sincerity? As she met the penetrating glance she knew of old, now softened by the fascination of his winning smile, she came again under the old personal charm.
— from I Spy by Natalie Sumner Lincoln

The Koran of Osman now stood for the ground text of the divine revelation.
— from Peter's Rock in Mohammed's Flood, from St. Gregory the Great to St. Leo III by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies

The more solidly modern astronomy, physics, and chemistry have established the sole dominion of inflexible natural laws in the universe at [Pg 309] large, and modern botany, zoology, and anthropology have proved the validity of those laws in the entire kingdom of organic nature, so much the more strenuously has the Christian religion, in association with dualistic metaphysics, striven to deny the application of these natural laws in the province of the so-called “spiritual life”—that is, in one section of the physiology of the brain.
— from The Riddle of the Universe at the close of the nineteenth century by Ernst Haeckel