Here is a wonderful concurrence of many references of nature to one purpose; and all this applies to the cases of the Greenlander, the Lapp, the Samoyede, the inhabitant of Yakutsk, etc.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

One of very remarkable character, and of which the circumstances may be fresh in the memory of some of my readers, occurred, not very long ago, in the neighboring city of Baltimore, where it occasioned a painful, intense, and widely-extended excitement.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

The investigations, i.e., social surveys, made in different parts of the country by the Bureau of Municipal Research of New York City, are studies of local administration made primarily for the purpose of improving the efficiency of an existing administrative machine and its personnel rather than of changing the policy or purpose of the administration itself.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Bolshevism , 909 -15. Bureau of Municipal Research , of New York City, 46 , 315 .
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Full of these wise conclusions, I conducted myself so improperly, that (not indeed without some trouble) I got myself dismissed; for on my return one night the maitre de hotel gave me warning on the part of the count.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

But what matters it in the end whether we call such a state of mind religious or not?
— from The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James

"I wonder if the old man reads other novelists.—Do tell me, Deacon, if you have read Thackeray's last story?"
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

A braver man, a surer or more reliable officer, never trod in shoe-leather.
— from History of the Gatling Gun Detachment, Fifth Army Corps, at Santiago With a Few Unvarnished Truths Concerning that Expedition by John H. (John Henry) Parker

"I wonder if the old man reads other novelists.—Do tell me, Deacon, if you have read Thackeray's last story? "
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

At the call of Massachusetts, representatives of nine of the colonies met in New York in October, 1764, and after a long discussion (in which Dickinson's knowledge of constitutional law and English colonial policy enabled him to assume the leadership) issued a "Declaration of Rights," in [xxiv] which it was asserted that the inhabitants of the Colonies, standing on their rights as Englishmen, could not be taxed by the House of Commons while unrepresented in that body.
— from Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies by John Dickinson

Here she was safe; one more exploit accomplished, one more roll of notes for the hungry fingers of her dress-maker.
— from The Double Four by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim