One Clark, an avowed enemy of the protestants in king Edward's reign, hung himself in the Tower of London.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Boldwood's had begun to be a troublesome image—a species of Daniel in her kingdom who persisted in kneeling eastward when reason and common sense said that he might just as well follow suit with the rest, and afford her the official glance of admiration which cost nothing at all.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

For example, the apparent motion of the planets is known empirically; after many false hypotheses with regard to the spacial connection of this motion (planetary course) the right one was at last found, then the laws which it obeyed (the laws of Kepler), and, lastly, the cause of these laws (universal gravitation), and the empirically known agreement of all observed cases with the whole of the hypotheses, and with their consequences, that is to say, induction, established them with complete certainty.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

And this attitude of mine towards people, I know, educated every one who came into contact with me.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

We may suspect, perhaps, that even these concepts are framed by analogy out of suggestions found in sense, so that some symbolic relevance or proportion is kept, even in these dislocated speculations, to the matter of experience.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

A Study of Historical Experiments in Denationalization; the Germanization of Posen, the Russianization of Poland, the Japanese Policy in Korea, etc. 9.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

The patch is kind enough, but a huge feeder; Snail-slow in profit, and he sleeps by day More than the wild-cat; drones hive not with me, Therefore I part with him; and part with him To one that I would have him help to waste His borrow'd purse.
— from The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

The patch is kind enough, but a huge feeder, Snail-slow in profit, and he sleeps by day More than the wild-cat; drones hive not with me, Therefore I part with him; and part with him To one that I would have him help to waste His borrowed purse.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The payments were initially paid in kind: e.g. grain, cattle, horses, hounds, and hawks.
— from Our Legal Heritage: King AEthelbert - King George III, 600 A.D. - 1776 by S. A. Reilly

lxxxiii, 1883, reprinted in his Beiträge zur Geschichte der neueren Philosophie , 1886; F. Frederichs, Der phänomenale Idealismus Berkeleys und Kants , 1871; the same, Kants Prinzip der Ethik , 1879; Ed. von Hartmann, Das Ding an sich und seine Beschaffenheit , 1871, in the 2d ed., 1875, and the 3d, 1885, entitled Kritische Grundlegung des transzendentalen Realismus ; C. Hebler, Kantiana , in his Philosophische Aufsätze , 1869; Alfred Hegler, Die Psychologie in Kants Ethik , 1891; A. Hölder, Darstellung der Kantischen Erkenntnisstheorie , 1873 J. Jacobson, Die Auffindung des Apriori , 1876; the same, Ueber die Beziehungen zwischen Kategorien und Urtheilsformen , 1877; Wilhelm Koppelmann, Kants Lehre vom analytischen Urtheil, Philosoph. Monatshefte , vol.
— from History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg

It was certainly not his business to allow any place to keep its secrets to itself; indeed, his reputation including even a capacity for humour, the world was frequently delighted with more than the place itself knew even in secret.
— from London River by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson

With this amendment, and a touch here and there in the last part (I know exactly where they will come best), I think it may be pretty and affecting, and comfortable too. . . ."
— from The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by John Forster

Then came the clergy of London, the foremost men of their profession in knowledge, eloquence, and influence, with their bishop at their head.
— from The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

Not only the growth and the nutrition of plants and animals, but even their functions of sensation and movement, their sense-action and psychic life, depend on the conversion of potential into kinetic energy, and vice versâ .
— from The Riddle of the Universe at the close of the nineteenth century by Ernst Haeckel

It is very much liker the first manner of Shakespeare than any passage in King Edward III .
— from A Study of Shakespeare by Algernon Charles Swinburne

"Yes, I do, pet; I know exactly."
— from Materfamilias by Ada Cambridge

We didn't have enough money to put in kitchens; each kitchen, we figured, even if Grant did all the labor himself, would cost four hundred dollars.
— from Four and Twenty Beds by Nancy Casteel Vogel