Mr. Braham himself received these fond assaults with the gallantry of his nation, enduring the ugly, and heartily paying back beauty in its own coin.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

Man's power of deliberate control of his own affairs depends upon ability to direct natural energies to use: an ability which is in turn dependent upon insight into nature's processes.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

Finally, the compatibility of both ways of representing the possibility of nature may lie in the supersensible principle of nature (external to us, as well as in us); whilst the method of representation according to final causes may be only a subjective condition of the use of our Reason, when it not merely wishes to form a judgement upon objects as phenomena, but desires to refer these phenomena together with their principles to their supersensible substrate, in order to find certain laws of their unity possible, which it cannot represent to itself except through purposes (of which the Reason also has such as are supersensible).
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

They that complain thus allow that if a young child dies, the survivors ought to bear his loss with equanimity; that if an infant in the cradle dies, they ought not even to utter a complaint; and yet nature has been more severe with them in demanding back what she gave.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Modern science also tends more and more to admit that the duality of man and nature does not exclude their unity, and that physical and moral forces, though distinct, are closely related.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Inasmuch as he thought that the son in his anger meant to bring him some new evidence to use against the father, he arose from his bed, asked all who were present to leave the room, and sent word to the young man to come in.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

If, therefore, any of "the partisans of natural evolution," take up a position involving denial of a rational acknowledgment of the supernatural, they isolate themselves in so doing, leaving the theory free from responsibility as to their attitude, and taking upon themselves the logical necessity for vindicating their position on grounds with which the theory of evolution itself has no concern.
— from The Relations of Science and Religion The Morse Lecture, 1880 by Henry Calderwood

Since you, my men, were not engaged to undertake a Polar Relief Expedition, I must ask for volunteers.
— from The Dreadnought of the Air by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

Thirdly, to those which were designed to make me confess my pretended crime, I replied that I was not even the unwilling author of the accident.
— from Mauprat by George Sand

It is not easy to understand all the circumstances of this pursuit.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Second Book of Samuel by William Garden Blaikie

At this period there seems to be no promise yet of himself, and what one might now, in a retrospect, regard as a pledge for his future greatness, amounts to no more than a juxta-position of traits which inspire more dismay than hope; a restless and excitable spirit, nervously eager to undertake a hundred things at the same time, passionately fond of almost morbidly exalted states of mind, and ready at any moment to veer completely round from calm and profound meditation to a state of violence and uproar.
— from Thoughts out of Season, Part I David Strauss, the Confessor and the Writer - Richard Wagner in Bayreuth. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I do not mean in saying this that she has not had grave and unjust handicaps, legal and social; I mean that when you come to study the comparative situations of men and women as a mass at any time and in any country you will find them more nearly equal than unequal, all things considered.
— from The Business of Being a Woman by Ida M. (Ida Minerva) Tarbell

And the misfortune of this legislation is heightened by the probability of its continuance; for it is not easy to uproot a body of laws once accepted by a people, however mischievous in their character.
— from Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 by George Washington Julian

However, it is not essential to use a diamond wheel, though it saves time.
— from On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall