(c) A "personality" is a relatively isolated phenomenon; in view of the superior importance of the continuation of the race at an average level, a [Pg 320] personality might even be regarded as something hostile to nature.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

There spring up a great number of party factions which previously, in view of that supreme political interest for or against the monarchy, found no room.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

I propose to the Patres Conscripti , as the learned Cicero would say if he were in my place, I propose, in view of the short time left, and time is money as Solomon said, that concerning this important matter each one set forth his opinion clearly, briefly, and simply.” Satisfied with himself and flattered by the attention in [ 140 ] the hall, the orator took his seat, not without first casting a glance of superiority toward Ibarra, who was seated in a corner, and a significant look at his friends as if to say, “Aha! Haven’t I spoken well?”
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

I put the question to your own good sense, your candor, and your pious feelings: Can the mere fact of being a pastor excuse a man from going to the heathen, when perhaps he became a pastor in violation of the Saviour's command?
— from Thoughts on Missions by Sheldon Dibble

We have been frankly forgiven all our sins, "accepted in the Beloved," made heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ, the expectants of eternal glory, and, in addition to all, our path through the desert is strewed with countless mercies; and yet let but a cloud the size of a man's hand appear on the horizon, and we at once forget the rich mercies of the past in view of this single cloud, which, after all, may only "break in blessings on our head.
— from Notes on the book of Exodus by Charles Henry Mackintosh

"Do you think I shall plead in vain, or that she will with Mr. Vavasour?"
— from It May Be True, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Wood, Henry, Mrs.

Its writers may anticipate the thought of ages by profound intuitions, pregnant imaginations, visions of the seer, as Plato does.
— from The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible by Richard Heber Newton

To obtain reliable information concerning the temperament of a young person, it is necessary to put into vigorous operation the system which Gil Blas prescribes, in dealing with chambermaids, a system employed by statesmen to discover conspiracies and to learn how the ministers have passed the night.
— from The Physiology of Marriage, Part 1 by Honoré de Balzac

The report then proceeds to state: "The petitioners complain of these acts as unconstitutional, and pray that provisions may be made by law for transferring the proceedings under these laws from the State Courts of Pennsylvania to the Courts of the United States; and that further provision may be made by law, that in the trial of any prosecution in virtue of the said acts the defendant may have a venire facias to summon juries from some State, other than Pennsylvania.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 2 (of 16) by United States. Congress

The corporal at once led me into the presence of the commandant, who, finding that I claimed to be of French blood, expressed himself in French as vastly astonished at the presence of an American in this remote region, particularly in view of the season.
— from A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois by Robert Ames Bennet

The best that he was capable of putting into verse on the subject of painting was both imagined and written during this first period in Italy, the home of painting.
— from Humanistic Studies of the University of Kansas, Vol. 1 by Pearl Hogrefe

Donal had many falls, but was soon, partly in virtue of those same falls, a very decent skater.
— from Donal Grant by George MacDonald