Though this statement would give a good general idea of the Scottish practice, its publication entails the addition of certain qualifying remarks.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

394 But here no principle is possible, except either to assume that in respect of the supersensible absolutely nothing can be theoretically determined (except mere negations); or else that our Reason contains in itself a yet unused mine of cognitions, reaching no one knows how far, stored up for ourselves and our posterity.—But as concerns Religion, i.e. morals in reference to God as legislator, if the theoretical cognition of Him is to come first, morals must be adjusted in accordance with Theology; and not only is an external arbitrary legislation of a Supreme Being introduced in place of an internal necessary legislation of Reason, but also whatever is defective in our insight into the nature of this Being must extend to ethical precepts, and thus make Religion immoral and perverted.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

But the five months' stoppage in Sumatra must have been in the S.W. Monsoon; and if the arrival in Persia is put earlier, Polo's numbers can scarcely be held to.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

[45] Military service, which elsewhere has often played such an important part in promoting emigration, has, in the Scandinavian countries, been only a minor factor, the period of service required being very short.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

—Granting that the " soul " was only an attractive and mysterious thought, [Pg 133] from which philosophers rightly, but reluctantly, separated themselves—that which they have since learnt to put in its place is perhaps even more attractive and even more mysterious.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

There is no point in paying extra for having menus.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

It is not a sin to make yourself poor in performing experiments for the good of all.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

It is, therefore, on some of these three relations of resemblance, contiguity and causation, that identity depends; and as the very essence of these relations consists in their producing an easy transition of ideas; it follows, that our notions of personal identity, proceed entirely from the smooth and uninterrupted progress of the thought along a train of connected ideas, according to the principles above-explained.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

There was in the phrase a certain easy tolerance, an absence of positive feeling of any kind, rather than any complete opinion, which marked pretty accurately the man's place in public esteem.
— from Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker

Whether this course would have offered his best chance he never knew; it was one of the points in practical education which most needed a clear understanding, and he could never reach it.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

M. de Crosne, one of the most liberal and most respected men of Paris, but, unfortunately for himself a lieutenant of the police, is pursued, escaping with difficulty, and his hotel is sacked.—During the night between the 13th and 14th of May, the baker's shops and the wine shops are pillaged; "men of the vilest class, armed with guns, pikes, and turnspits, make people open their doors and give them something to eat and drink, as well as money and arms."
— from The French Revolution - Volume 1 by Hippolyte Taine

For the rest this ideal of goodness and of perfection, persisting as it does in the face of inner scrutiny, has no need of an objective existence in some sort material, to produce its proper effect upon the spirit.
— from The Non-religion of the Future: A Sociological Study by Jean-Marie Guyau

Finally they came to the testing room, and this proved, if possible, even more interesting than what had gone before.
— from Bert Wilson's Fadeaway Ball by J. W. Duffield

And in a castel made her for to be Ful privily in prison evermore, (110) And kepte her to his usage and his store, So that she mighte him nevermore asterte.
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 (of 7) — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

But his learning was marred by his iniquitous character; envy and ambition led him to commit wicked deeds, to accuse and persecute innocent persons, even his own co-religionists.
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 4 (of 6) by Heinrich Graetz

The photophobia of the "sensitized" plate, of course, requires a dark apartment of some kind: commonly a folding tent is made to answer the purpose in photographic excursions.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

One was called The Ladies' Mercury ; a second, The London Mercury , or Mercure de Londres , and was printed in parallel English and French columns.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 2, February, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

We are far from suspecting that the portrait is perfectly exact; no portrait by George Sand is perfectly exact.
— from The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. by Various