Leibnitz termed the world, when viewed in relation to the rational beings which it contains, and the moral relations in which they stand to each other, under the government of the Supreme Good, the kingdom of Grace, and distinguished it from the kingdom of Nature, in which these rational beings live, under moral laws, indeed, but expect no other consequences from their actions than such as follow according to the course of nature in the world of sense.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Let it be examined neither with prejudice in its favour, nor with any undue suspicion of its soundness, but with candour and impartiality throughout.
— from Primitive Christian Worship Or, The Evidence of Holy Scripture and the Church, Against the Invocation of Saints and Angels, and the Blessed Virgin Mary by James Endell Tyler

If wealth to want inlarge the present sense, My joyes are unbounded, instead of question Let it be envy, not bring a present To the high offering of our mirth, Banquets, and Masques; Keep waking our delights, mocking nights malice, Whose dark brow would fright pleasure from us, Our Court be but one st[a]ge of Revels, and each [e]ye The Scene where our content moves. Theod.
— from Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 10 of 10 by John Fletcher

For every single race he chose the runners, and laid imaginary bets; each night he made out how much he had lost or made; and it must be confessed that if he had really laid money on the horses, he would most certainly have done a good term's work.
— from The Loom of Youth by Alec (Alexander Raban) Waugh

She seemed very little interested but every now and then she asked a languid question.
— from The Tempting of Tavernake by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

Where Spring, whose dewy fingers strew O'er other lands some fleeting flowers, Lives, in blossoms ever new; Whence arose that shriek of pain?
— from Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook With an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods by Andrew Kippis

These tactics and the bombardment of Callao continued day after day, and the port seemed to be as far from surrendering as it was when they began; but the Chilians found, after the first few days, that it was necessary to lay down permanent moorings under San Lorenzo Island and buoy them, so that the fleet could leave its berth every night at dusk, and return when morning dawned.
— from Under the Chilian Flag: A Tale of War between Chili and Peru by Harry Collingwood

The black list is bad enough now.
— from The Workingman's Paradise: An Australian Labour Novel by John Miller

Strength has come; the larva is brawny enough not to dread the movements of the caterpillars' bodies.
— from The Wonders of Instinct: Chapters in the Psychology of Insects by Jean-Henri Fabre