A Paraiyan places a small twig of the arka plant ( Calotropis gigantea ) in three corners of the grave, leaving out the north-east corner, and the son puts a small coin on each twig.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

For the law of reason which requires us to seek for this unity is a necessary law, inasmuch as without it we should not possess a faculty of reason, nor without reason a consistent and self-accordant mode of employing the understanding, nor, in the absence of this, any proper and sufficient criterion of empirical truth.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

I should also advise you to make a list of every book you read after leaving school; you will find it very interesting in after years, especially if you put a short criticism on each.
— from Stray Thoughts for Girls by Lucy Helen Muriel Soulsby

No clear answer of general application can be given to this question, for the relative influence of the anthropological, physical, and social conditions varies with the psychological and social characteristics of each offence against the law.
— from Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri

Soon after, the inherent good sense I knew him to possess when I selected him, led him to abandon both cane and shoes, and he has become a prominent and successful citizen of El Paso.
— from My Story by Anson Mills

He also comments wonderingly on the state of the virtuous man and woman, and of the blameless child, "undone," as he was saved, before the world began; whose very striving is turned to sin; whose life-long prayer and sacrifice can only end in damnation.
— from A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) by Orr, Sutherland, Mrs.

An attempt to breed or deal in cattle by a class of peasant proprietors, acting singly, could only end in ruin; a ruin even more complete than bad seasons would bring upon unsuccessful cultivators of grain.
— from The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 by Various

[1158] Not content with dissuading his hearers from listening to the Protestant ministers as persons already sufficiently convicted of error, he called them apes and foxes, [1159] and advised that they be sent to Trent, where the Pope had convoked a free council to which they might have free access.
— from History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Henry Martyn Baird

Poised in the very attitude of preparation, a sudden change of expression showed in her still eyes, or rather an arrestment of expression; the features remained fixed and immovable, while the brain worked.
— from What a Man Wills by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

Protestantism was, in the main, the product of the peculiar political and social condition of Europe during the last period of the middle ages, and to expect Catholic nations, or indeed individual Catholics of any intellectual or moral character, to become Protestant in our day argues a total want of power to grasp this subject.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 23, April, 1876-September, 1876. A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

Mr. Pater was not tempted by such popularity as his book received to hasten publication; indeed it was understood that after beginning to print a second collection of Essays, he became dissatisfied with them, and caused the type to be broken up.
— from A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by George Saintsbury