It is only to be lamented that any of her citizens should wish to deprive her of the additional merit of displaying its full efficacy in the establishment of the comprehensive system now under her consideration.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

The individual figure drawn upon paper is empirical; but it serves, notwithstanding, to indicate the conception, even in its universality, because in this empirical intuition we keep our eye merely on the act of the construction of the conception, and pay no attention to the various modes of determining it, for example, its size, the length of its sides, the size of its angles, these not in the least affecting the essential character of the conception.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

They constitute the means of drawing inferences from what is given in sensation; and if what we infer is to be true, it is just as necessary that our principles of inference should be true as it is that our data should be true.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

" (3) This brings us to the third mode of distinguishing images from sensations, namely, by their causes and effects.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

In 1860, Dougherty County had six thousand slaves, worth at least two and a half millions of dollars; its farms were estimated at three millions,—making five and a half millions of property, the value of which depended largely on the slave system, and on the speculative demand for land once marvellously rich but already partially devitalized by careless and exhaustive culture.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

Indeed, were inspiration not the faithful echo of plain conscience and vulgar experience there would be no means of distinguishing it from madness.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

But He who called me from the midst of darkness is faithful.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

Then, after he had drawn off his troops from the Roman territory, they say that he lost his life, overwhelmed by the odium of the proceeding: different writers say by different modes of death: I find in Fabius, far the most ancient writer, that he lived even to old age; he states positively, that advanced in years he made use of this phrase, "That exile bore much heavier on the old man."
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

Order to restore upon this present occasion to the merchants of Douay in Flanders their goods arrested by John and Philip; for the king lately ordered John and Philip to arrest the wool and goods of merchants of Flanders in Boston Fair and at Lynn and Lincoln, yet it was not his intention that the goods of certain persons should be arrested, but that all goods and wares of Flemings should be arrested at one and the same time everywhere in the realm, by reason of the debt which the countess of Flanders owes to him and the merchants of the realm; and by reason of the neglect of the agreement between the king and countess; and the king did not then recollect his grant to the Flemish merchants that they might safely come into the realm and stay until the feast of St. Peter ad Vincula last past.
— from Extracts Relating to Mediaeval Markets and Fairs in England by Helen Douglas-Irvine

But don't talk to me of doing it for the best.
— from A Girl of the People by L. T. Meade

When I tried to get in at my own door I found I could not fit the latch-key, and was obliged to hand it to the detective.
— from The Motor Pirate by G. Sidney Paternoster

This, therefore, is a characteristic imperfection of the Method of Agreement, from which imperfection the Method of Difference is free.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive by John Stuart Mill

And on April Fool's day British Tommies across a certain meadow of death in Flanders expelled from a mine-thrower something which looked murderously like a bomb.
— from The Assault: Germany Before the Outbreak and England in War-Time by Frederic William Wile

You are a noble woman, and Senor Stewart is a man of desert iron forged anew in the crucible of love.
— from The Light of the Western Stars by Zane Grey

[Pg 526] was well known, however, that there had been for several years a clamor in the Lower States for the repeal of the law of the Union prohibiting the African slave trade, that the determination to have the trade reopened ' in the Union or out of the Union ' had been publicly proclaimed in South Carolina, and that the matter of demanding it from the Congress of the Union had been before the Legislature of that State, on the recommendation of the Governor, three or four years before the breaking out of the rebellion.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 by Various

The men on duty in front of the trenches were always in very great danger.
— from Kitchener's Mob: Adventures of an American in the British Army by James Norman Hall

The hapless but brave soldiers of justice lie in their armor on the field of battle; the fresh blood gurgles from the gaping wounds, and the madness of defeat is fiercely stamped on their bronzed features; one holds in death-grasp the unsheathed sword he had not time to wield, the other sill stares with open eye on the broken blade that proved his ruin.
— from Alvira: The Heroine of Vesuvius by A. J. (Augustine J.) O'Reilly

The minor matter of dress is frequently the cause of emergency calls for help from embarrassed lyceumites, and to get out of predicaments in which mistakes of packing under the pressure of hurry place us sometimes taxes our resources to the uttermost.
— from From Pillar to Post: Leaves from a Lecturer's Note-Book by John Kendrick Bangs