But if Pisistratus does possess the city to-day, still I have no expectation that the supreme power will ever descend to his children.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

Therefore it can be nothing else than the subjective purposiveness in the representation of an object without any purpose (either objective or subjective); and thus it is the 70 mere form of purposiveness in the representation by which an object is given to us, so far as we are conscious of it, which constitutes the satisfaction that we without a concept judge to be universally communicable; and, consequently, this is the determining ground of the judgement of taste.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

There is no end to this spiral process: foreign subject-matter transformed through thinking into a familiar possession becomes a resource for judging and assimilating additional foreign subject-matter.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

I see that they were nothing else than the stipulated price for that vindictive old man's will.
— from An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen

A clause in the famous act of navigation established this truly shopkeeper proposal into a law.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Better for them, perhaps, in the present circumstances, to buy East India goods of other nations, even though they should pay somewhat dearer, than to turn so great a part of their small capital to so very distant a trade, in which the returns are so very slow, in which that capital can maintain so small a quantity of productive labour at home, where productive labour is so much wanted, where so little is done, and where so much is to do.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

They are not entitled to the slightest pity if they deliberately choose to resign into the hands of great wrongdoers the control of the corporations in which they own the stock.
— from Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt

Naturally enough the two suffrage prisoners, on being arraigned in court, refused to be tried unless the Government proceeded also against the men rebels.
— from My Own Story by Emmeline Pankhurst

"By jingo!" said the youth, indignantly, "there is no end to the slanders people will say of one.
— from Sheppard Lee, Written by Himself. Vol. 2 (of 2) by Robert Montgomery Bird

[204] There is then no evidence that this singular prophecy ever stood apart from its present context, or that it was written by another writer than the prophet, by whom we have hitherto found ourselves conducted.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Isaiah, Volume 2 (of 2) by George Adam Smith

Those inhabiting the Lower Amazon possess some degree of civilisation, and are known under the general name of Tapuyos—from a once powerful nation of that name, existing towards the southern part of the Brazilian coast, and driven northward by still fiercer hordes.
— from The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by William Henry Giles Kingston

But when diving on a Hun, I have never experienced this troubled sensation, probably because it has been swamped under the high tension of readiness for the task.
— from Cavalry of the Clouds by Alan Bott

There is no star near enough to the southern pole of the heavens to earn the distinction of South Polar Star.
— from Astronomy of To-day: A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language by Cecil Goodrich Julius Dolmage

Drôme, France, on the Isère, 12 m. NE. of Valence; a 9th-century bridge spans the river to the opposite town Péage; has a 9th-century abbey; manufactures silk, &c. Romans, Epistle to the , an epistle written from Corinth, in the year 59, by St. Paul to the Church at Rome to correct particularly two errors which he had learned the Church there had fallen into, on the part, on the one hand, of the Jewish Christians, that the Gentiles as such were not entitled to the same privileges as themselves, and, on the other hand, of the Gentile Christians, that the Jews by their rejection of Christ had excluded themselves from God's kingdom; and he wrote this epistle to show that the one had no more right to the grace of God than the other, and that this grace contemplates the final conversion of the Jews as well as the Gentiles.
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

To her grateful appreciation of the condescension of a great and good man—grave, learned, and renowned—to her youth and weakness, and to her enthusiastic admiration of his intellectual powers, devoted to the highest and holiest objects, succeeded naturally enough the tenderly suggestive pity of her woman's heart, as she thought of his lonely home, his unshared sorrows, his lack of those sympathies and kindnesses which make tolerable the hard journey of life.
— from The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume VI. (Of VII) Old Portraits and Modern Sketches, Plus Personal Sketches and Tributes and Historical Papers by John Greenleaf Whittier