It is true that in us morally practical Reason is essentially different in its principles from technically practical Reason.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

Up betimes, and for an hour at my viall before my people rise.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

What most people relish is hardly music; it is rather a drowsy revery relieved by nervous thrills.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

So shall you have a shorter journey to your desires by the means I shall then have to prefer them, and the impediment most profitably removed, without the which there were no expectation of our prosperity.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Sam had returned when Mr. Pickwick reached his own room, and was inspecting the arrangements that had been made for his comfort, with a kind of grim satisfaction which was very pleasant to look upon.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

While this sad event occupied all our thoughts, and gave rise to many painful reflections, an exclamation of unqualified delight at once changed the current of our thoughts, and filled us with surprise and pleasure.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

Thus not only are moral laws with their principles essentially distinguished from every other kind of practical knowledge in which there is anything empirical, but all moral philosophy rests wholly on its pure part.
— from Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals by Immanuel Kant

'For my part,' replied Tebaldo, 'I wish them no good, as you may imagine.
— from Corleone: A Tale of Sicily by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

The first three years after his father's death were spent by Ariosto in the neighborhood of Reggio, and to this period of his life we may perhaps refer some of the love-affairs celebrated in his Latin poems.
— from Renaissance in Italy, Volume 4 (of 7) Italian Literature, Part 1 by John Addington Symonds

It was necessary to strike an immediate blow, and to raise the spirits of the guests, for many pretty rosy faces began to grow pale, many scarlet ears became suddenly white; Ninny Moulin's were of the number.
— from The Wandering Jew — Volume 09 by Eugène Sue

“Never mind, Princess,” reassured Haynes, in his caressing voice.
— from The Flying Death by Samuel Hopkins Adams

Witty and humorous, while deeply thoughtful, his discussions were of great value to me, and our long walks together remain among the most pleasing recollections of my life.
— from Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 2 by Andrew Dickson White

During the last century, a German professor, named Huth, made a model of the horn, and found it answered every purpose of a speaking-trumpet with most powerful results, but we beg leave to doubt whether the instrument really carried the voice to any very great distance.
— from Popular Scientific Recreations in Natural Philosphy, Astronomy, Geology, Chemistry, etc., etc., etc. by Gaston Tissandier

After a tedious journey of five days, Madame Pfeiffer reached the shores of the Baltic, which are finely indented by bays and rivers, with long stretches of lofty cliff, and, inland, dense masses of fir woods.
— from The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands by Anonymous