Since the Essays of Locke and Leibnitz, or rather since the origin of metaphysics so far as we know its history, nothing has ever happened which was more decisive to its fate than the attack made upon it by David Hume.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

There was less and less of resolution in his manner as his mind gradually reverted to his loss; at length, dropping into his elbow-chair and grasping its sides so firmly that they creaked again, he said: ‘The time has been when nothing could have moved me like the loss of this great sum.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

If all ends were already reached, and no art were requisite, life could not exist at all, much less a Life of Reason.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

“Yes, but,” answered La Ramee, trying to laugh, “a ladder of ropes can’t be sent around a ball, like a letter.”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

One roared like a lion, 'Omar Rabbi Akiwa (Rabbi Akiwa said) sa......id, sa......id ..Ra......bbi...A......ki......wa..., oi Mamuni (Oh Mammy) Rabbi, oi Tatutim, (Oh Daddy) Akiwa, oi Ribene schel olam (Oh Lord of the World) said; said Rabbi Akiwa; what did Rabbi Akiwa say?
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

The children seemed to tumble about and amuse themselves like a litter of rough, good-natured collie puppies.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

This demonstrated the impossibility of maintaining so long a line of road over which to draw supplies for an army moving in an enemy's country.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

301 To those who are building a stone wall or coping it matters not if they lay on any chance wood or common stone, or some tombstone that has fallen down, as bad workmen do, heaping and piling up pell-mell every kind of material; but those who have made some progress in virtue, whose life "has been wrought on a golden base," 302 like the foundation of some holy or royal building, undertake nothing carelessly, but lay and adjust everything by the line and level of reason, thinking the remark of Polycletus superlatively good, that that work is most excellent, where the model stands the test of the nail.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

I was especially astonished that friars would leave a life of rumination to follow the one of ruination and fatigue of the gypsies.
— from The Life of Lazarillo of Tormes: His Fortunes and Misfortunes as Told by Himself by Anonymous

Equally enthusiastic were Leo and Lucille over Raphael's superb frescoes in the Loggie, and in the chambers adjoining.
— from The Harris-Ingram Experiment by Charles E. (Charles Edward) Bolton

He has no remorse; for some time he leads a life of revenge, and, afterwards, suddenly, he gives himself up to vice, to wine, to gambling, and forgets his wife, and he is jealous of her no more; on the contrary, indifferent, he assists in her infidelities.
— from The Monist, Vol. 1, 1890-1891 by Various

You will ascertain the latitude and longitude of remarkable points with all possible precision.
— from James's Account of S. H. Long's Expedition, 1819-1820, part 1 by Thomas Say

He possessed a lively imagination and overflowing wealth of language, and lacked only restraining tact, and a dignified, universally acceptable, uplifting aim for poetry.
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 4 (of 6) by Heinrich Graetz

"Our grandmother, from whom he inherits the estates, left a lot of ready money, and Francis is a clever speculator.
— from The Spider by Fergus Hume

THE SOUTH.—Virginia has been neglected in this period, but the travelers afford interesting material; and a good view of plantation life is T.C. Johnson, Life and Letters of Robert Lewis Dabney (1903).
— from Rise of the New West, 1819-1829 by Frederick Jackson Turner

Sir Thomas up to London sped, full fast, To beg his life, and lands, of Royal Harry,
— from Broad Grins Comprising, With New Additional Tales in Verse, Those Formerly Publish'd Under the Title "My Night-Gown and Slippers." by George Colman

All which, the faintness of colouring in or total absence of the spots, with the thinness, transparency, [ 346 ] and general fragility of the shell, is doubtless due to an impaired vitality, quoad hoc , consequent upon the prodigality of energy thrown into the loves and labours of rearing the first or spring brood.
— from Nether Lochaber The Natural History, Legends, and Folk-lore of the West Highlands by Stewart, Alexander, Rev.

She laughed a laugh of rapture.
— from Ecstasy, A Study of Happiness: A Novel by Louis Couperus