It had no existence in the Slave States except at points on the borders next to Free States.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

214 represents the numerals, executed in the same way.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

This field we must indeed occupy with Ideas on behalf of the theoretical as well as the practical use of Reason, but we can supply to them in reference to the laws [arising] from the concept of freedom no other than practical reality, by which our theoretical cognition is not extended in the slightest degree towards the supersensible.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

The good old office, now extinct in the State of New York, of a Master in Chancery, had been conferred upon me.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

The family pew was a misery to him, yet he could nevermore enter into the solacing refuge of the “nigger gallery”—that was closed to him for good and all.
— from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

Of feeling little more can be said than that the idea of bodily pain, in all the modes and degrees of labor, pain, anguish, torment, is productive of the sublime; and nothing else in this sense can produce it.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Now, applying these considerations to the Philippines, we must conclude, as a deduction [ 95 ] from all we have said, that if their population be not assimilated to the Spanish nation, if the dominators do not enter into the spirit of their inhabitants, if equable laws and free and liberal reforms do not make each forget that they belong to different races, or if both peoples be not amalgamated to constitute one mass, socially and politically homogeneous, that is, not harassed by opposing tendencies and antagonistic ideas and interests, some day the Philippines will fatally and infallibly declare themselves independent.
— from The Philippines a Century Hence by José Rizal

However, little attention is given to coffee-growing in the north, except in the state of Pernambuco, which has only about 1,500,000 trees, as compared, with the 764,000,000 trees of São Paulo in 1922.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

There is no meaning in the term 'awareness' which is not expressed in the statement 'I am aware of a colour (or what-not).'
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

It seemed to me like the sudden introduction of a quite new element in the stagnant atmosphere, as well as a new party to our conversation.
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, March 1885 by Various

Poor Mr Easy had told his son but the day before that he felt convinced that this wonderful invention would immortalise him, and so it had, although not exactly in the sense that he anticipated.
— from Mr. Midshipman Easy by Frederick Marryat

The purpose to which he is devoted—such, for instance, as that of painting or of running a railroad—is not exclusive in the sense of being unique.
— from The Promise of American Life by Herbert David Croly

"Many of the species of Carabidæ and of Staphylinidæ , especially those collected by Mr. Thwaites, near Kandy, and by M. Nietner at Colombo, have much resemblance to the [pg 444] insects of these two families in North Europe; in the Scydmænid, Ptiliadæ, Phalacridæ, Nitidulidæ, Colydiadæ , and Lathridiadæ the northern form is still more striking, and strongly contrasts with the tropical forms of the gigantic Copridæ, Buprestidæ, and Cerambycidæ , and with the Elateridæ, Lampyridæ, Tenebrionidæ, Helopidæ, Meloidæ, Curculionidæ, Prionidæ, Cerambycidæ, Lamiidæ , and Endomychidæ .
— from Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir

Many of these related to his adventures when he would disguise himself as a person of humble status and prowl about the city by night, especially in the squalid quarters, where he would make the acquaintance of the very poor in their hovels.
— from Far Away and Long Ago: A History of My Early Life by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

DAILY COST OF WAR The daily cost of the present war to the nations engaged in the struggle is estimated at not less than $54,000,000 a day—a sum which fairly staggers the imagination.
— from America's War for Humanity by Thomas Herbert Russell

For, these abstract ideas being the workmanship of the mind, and not referred to the real existence of things, there is no supposition of anything more signified by that name, but barely that complex idea the mind itself has formed; which is all it would have expressed by it; and is that on which all the properties of the species depend, and from which alone they all flow: and so in these the real and nominal essence is the same; which, of what concernment it is to the certain knowledge of general truth, we shall see hereafter.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 2 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 3 and 4 by John Locke

Hence, as he says in 1540, “Lending neither can nor ought to be a true trade or means of livelihood; nor do I believe the Emperor thinks so either.” Besides, “it is not enough in the sight of heaven to obey the laws of the Emperor.”
— from Luther, vol. 6 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

25-* It may be said that such passages refer metaphorically to the versatility of his character, but even if this is so, the metaphors are drawn from the universal belief in Nagualism which then prevailed, and they do not express it too strongly.
— from Nagualism: A Study in Native American Folk-lore and History by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton