My thanks are also due to Reverend G. G. Krostu of Koshkonong Parsonage for having placed at my disposal the Koshkonong Church Register from 1844–1850; as also for verifying my copy of it in some cases of names and dates; for the privilege accorded me of using these so precious documents I am most grateful.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

So universal has skating become, that instruction in this graceful accomplishment seems almost unnecessary; but, for the benefit of the rising generation who may peruse our work, we will give, from a well-known authority, a few hints as to the manner of using the skates {170} before we add our own instruction as to the etiquette of the skating ground.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

We need not, then, have recourse to scholastic arguments; we may always admit the truth of those propositions which are consistent with the speculative interests of reason in the sphere of experience, and form, moreover, the only means of uniting the speculative with the practical interest.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Mercy on us, the senselessness in the world!”
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

We may say that the first of these maxims is the maxim of Understanding, the second of Judgement, and the third of Reason.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

Sí; puedo conseguir mi objeto, usando tan sólo los recursos de la ley, eficaces completamente para esto.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

I have, during the last two years, spoken of him several times to the Count de Pontchartrain, because he asked me; but I have not written to you, sir, or to M. de Chamillart, because you neither of you requested my opinion upon the subject.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

And me have mercy on, Unto thy servant give thy strength, And save thy hand-maids Son.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

The man moved on up the stairs; a moment later the prince passed up them, too.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I have never joined in any intrigue, any cabal, any faction; I have openly and boldly contended for the natural and legitimate right of every man to enjoy political freedom; and I pray God that I may breathe my last before I alter my opinion upon this subject.
— from Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2 by Henry Hunt

Then, again, in an Epithalamion of his Underwoods , as they were called, there is a fragment of verse, which, in many of its delicious couplets, shows the grace and art of Spenser’s wonderful “Epithalamion,” which we read a little time ago:—He is picturing the bridesmaids strewing the bride’s path with flowers:— “With what full hands, and in how plenteous showers Have they bedewed the earth where she doth tread, As if her airy steps did spring the flowers, And all the ground were garden, where she led.” Such verses do not come often into our newspaper corners, from first hands: such verses make one understand the significance of that inscription which came by merest accident to be written on his tomb in Westminster Abbey—“O rare Ben Jonson!”
— from English Lands, Letters and Kings, vol. 1: From Celt to Tudor by Donald Grant Mitchell

And yet, my Lords, so censured and so disavowed, and by such an authority, I am sent here again, to this the place of my offence, under the same commission, by the same authority, to make good the same charge, against the same delinquent.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

In any case, where the use of old oats as a staple diet is departed from, and where the quantity and manner of using the substitute is left to the discretion of careless or unskilled attendants, trouble is likely to ensue.
— from Diseases of the Horse's Foot by H. Caulton (Harry Caulton) Reeks

We have seen how it was received by Thurloe; and from what followed it would appear that Cromwell had either heard of the rumours going about that he had sacrificed the rights of England to the sovereignty of the seas in order to gain the exclusion of the Orange family, or that he was determined to keep the matter open until the secret arrangement for that exclusion had been officially accepted in the United Provinces—a task in which De Witt was struggling against enormous difficulties.
— from The Sovereignty of the Sea An Historical Account of the Claims of England to the Dominion of the British Seas, and of the Evolution of the Territorial Waters by Thomas Wemyss Fulton

Suppose I had suddenly broken out of that doorway and made off up the street?
— from Captain Macedoine's Daughter by William McFee

Perhaps it is the instinctive trait of most of us to seek an explanation for any great happiness as we are always prone to discuss the causes of our adversity.
— from The Choir Invisible by James Lane Allen

[Pg 179] drove me out upon the streets, and insensibly I drifted towards my favourite second-hand book-shop, where the little maiden behind the mountains of Welsh theology reminds me of someone I know.
— from An Ocean Tramp by William McFee

The eyes are for most of us this sensory surface; for the blind it can only be other parts of the skin, coupled or not with motion.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 2 (of 2) by William James

She could feel the galvanic movement of uncontrol that sped down his knees.
— from The Wire Tappers by Arthur Stringer