But as I am not only justified in thinking that I exist also as a noumenon in a world of the understanding, but even have in the moral law a purely intellectual determining principle of my causality (in the sensible world), it is not impossible that morality of mind should have a connection as cause with happiness (as an effect in the sensible world)
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant
He was born in the village of Pallas, Ireland, the son of a poor Irish curate whose noble character is portrayed in Dr. Primrose, of The Vicar of Wakefield , and in the country parson of The Deserted Village .
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long
What are we to say for instance to St Paul’s statement, that he preached the Gospel in Galatia δι’ ἀσθένειαν τῆς σαρκός (iv. 13), i.e. because he was detained by sickness (see Galatians pp. 23 sq., 172), whereas his journey to Lycaonia and Pisidia is distinctly planned with a view to missionary work?
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot
the East India berry (so called) of the best sorts at 20d. per pound, of which at present in divers places there is very bad, which the ignorant for cheapness do buy, and is the chief cause of the now bad coffee drunk in many plaies (sic).
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers
To inaugurate a series of static, semistatic and peripatetic intellectual dialogues, places the residence of both speakers (if both speakers were resident in the same place), the Ship hotel and tavern, 6 Lower Abbey street (W. and E. Connery, proprietors), the National Library of Ireland, 10 Kildare street, the National Maternity Hospital, 29, 30 and 31 Holles street, a public garden, the vicinity of a place of worship, a conjunction of two or more public thoroughfares, the point of bisection of a right line drawn between their residences (if both speakers were resident in different places).
— from Ulysses by James Joyce
For the understanding of the difference between psychology and physics it is vital to understand these two ways of classifying particulars, namely: (1) According to the place where they occur; (2) According to the system of correlated particulars in different places to which they belong, such system being defined as a physical object.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell
And I know brickmakers go about working at piecework in different places.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Taken all together, these legends point to a widespread practice of dismembering the body of a king or magician and burying the pieces in different parts of the country in order to ensure the fertility of the ground and probably also the fecundity of man and beast.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer
When Guha saw the long-armed chief Whose eye was like a lotus leaf, With lion shoulders strong and fair, High-mettled, prostrate in despair,— Pale, bitterly afflicted, he Reeled as in earthquake reels a tree.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki
The drinks were poured into deep paper cups which were half-filled carefully to prevent spilling.
— from The Mystery of Seal Islands by Harrison Bardwell
Many others suffered the like penalty in different parts of the Archipelago.
— from The Katipunan; or, The Rise and Fall of the Filipino Commune by Francis St. Clair
Meanwhile the troops in the centre, and part of the right wing, passed the rivulet on planks in different places, and formed on the other side without any molestation from the enemy.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II. by T. (Tobias) Smollett
The Hebrew parody is distinguished particularly for its adaptation of the Talmudic language to modern customs and questions.
— from The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) by Nahum Slouschz
Das ein tiefes Leid durchglüht —Poetry is deep pain, and the genuine song issues only from the human heart through which a deep sorrow glows.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.
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— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XLI, No. 4, October 1852 by Various
I had the curiosity to inquire whether he had really writ that poem in detached pieces, and sung it about as ballads all over Greece, according to the report which went of him.
— from A Journey from This World to the Next by Henry Fielding
The late Victor Emmanuel found recreation only in hunting, having a number of lodges devoted to this purpose in different parts of Italy.
— from Genius in Sunshine and Shadow by Maturin Murray Ballou
Warning of German embassy published in daily papers.
— from Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights by Kelly Miller
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