But the existence of external things is absolutely requisite for this purpose, so that it follows that internal experience is itself possible only mediately and through external experience.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

"Do you really think you can provide for me?" asked the Eagle eagerly.
— from The Aesop for Children With pictures by Milo Winter by Aesop

Emily was, at this time, too much affected to employ either remonstrance, or entreaty on this topic; and when, at length, she attempted the latter, her emotion overcame her speech, and she retired to her apartment, to think, if in the present state of her mind to think was possible, upon this sudden and overwhelming subject.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

24 ( A.D. 968), though giving the genealogy from Bappa to Sakti Kumar and corroborating that from Chitor, and which furnished convincing evidence, was not sanctioned by the prince or his chroniclers, who would admit nothing as valid that militated against their established era 191 for the birth of their founder.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

I believe that sensations (including images) supply all the "stuff" of the mind, and that everything else can be analysed into groups of sensations related in various ways, or characteristics of sensations or of groups of sensations.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

But from the midst of the curdling and the circling of it all we seem dimly to catch a glimpse of a state in which the reality to be known and the power of knowing shall have become so mutually adequate that each exhaustively is absorbed by the other and the twain become one flesh, and in which the light shall somehow have soaked up all the outer darkness into its own ubiquitous beams.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

Foodstuffs continue to be modestly mentioned as the enemy explained away minor difficulties, but the use of secret weapons propaganda shows that the enemy propagandists had to have something sensational to keep up the courage of the home audience.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

The place to which they carried the dead man at the extreme end of the rather large pond, which was the farthest of the three from the house, was one of the most solitary and unfrequented spots in the park, especially at this late season of the year.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Grotius was an acute man, a lawyer, a man accustomed to examine evidence, and he was convinced.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

So humbly craving the continuance of your honourable favour towards me, and th' eternall establishment of your happines, I humbly take leave.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

That anti-partisan warfare was carried on by army troops mercilessly and to every extreme, I know as the result of discussions with army troop leaders, for instance with General Herzog, Commander of the 38th Army Corps, and with his Chief of Staff, Colonel Pamberg, in the General Staff, both of whom support my opinion.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 4 by Various

If many whose names should be included fail to see them on this "roll of honor" the fault is at all events not mine, and the earnest effort which I have given to this work, wholly a "labor of love" on my part, leaves me free from the necessity of offering apology for whatever errors of omission or of commission may remain in it.
— from The American Jew as Patriot, Soldier and Citizen by Simon Wolf

As Ra rises up every morn, And Tum every evening doth set.
— from A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock) Mathews

What did it avail, that she had bonam conscientiam , as the good Abbess was wont to say, it seemed nevertheless to her as if she had done some wrong in suffering a hypocrite to have so much influence over her, and as she thought of the terrible moment after the evening exercitia in the Chapel, the blood flew to her cheeks, and she bent over her work while indignation and shame struggled within her.
— from Klytia: A Story of Heidelberg Castle by Adolf Hausrath

He answered roll-call and mingled amid the exciting events he relates.
— from Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier by John Algernon Owens

The sun looked bright the morning after, to every eye in the village but Le Fever’s and his afflicted son’s; the hand of death press’d heavy upon his eye-lids,——and hardly cou
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Page 71 CHAPTER IV THE NAVIES OF THE MIDDLE AGES: THE EASTERN EMPIRE The thousand years following the collapse of the Roman empire, a period generally referred to as the Middle Ages, are characterized by a series of barbarian invasions.
— from A History of Sea Power by William Oliver Stevens

The most conspicuous horsemen were the Prince Regent (accompanied by Sir Benjamin Bloomfield); the Duke of York, and his old friend Warwick Lake; the Duke of Dorset, on his white horse; the Marquis of Anglesea and his lovely daughters; Lord Harrowby and the Ladies Ryder; the Earl of Sefton and the Ladies Molyneux; and the eccentric Earl of Morton on his long-tailed grey.
— from Hyde Park from Domesday-book to Date by John Ashton

Lee and Shepard's catalogue embraces the names of a great many authors, to even enumerate which would require much space in this magazine.
— from The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 6, March, 1885 by Various

This hope helped us to keep ourselves in order, much as the exiled Englishman restrains himself from slumping by donning his dress-suit in the jungle solitude.
— from The Joys of Being a Woman, and Other Papers by Winifred Margaretta Kirkland