But change is an event, which, as such, is possible only through a cause, and considered per se its non-existence is therefore possible, and we become cognizant of its contingency from the fact that it can exist only as the effect of a cause.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

He points out that all animals, man included, have powers suited to their position in the world (ll. 179-188), and asserts that if man had keener senses than he now has, he would be exposed to evils from which he now is free (ll. 193-203).
— from The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

[102] found 0.82 percent caffein in air-dried coffee leaves, but only 0.087 percent of the alkaloid in the stems of the plant separated from the leaves.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

After three years had elapsed he died, thus giving effect to the promise of the ant-king that he should see his children once more at the end of three years.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

Thus, as an eighteenth-century masonic writer has expressed it: The war, which for the greater number of warriors of good faith proved the source of weariness, of losses and misfortunes, became for them (the Templars) only the opportunity for booty and aggrandizement, and if they distinguished themselves by a few brilliant actions, their motive soon ceased to be a matter of doubt when they were seen to enrich themselves even with the spoils of the confederates, to increase their credit by the extent of the new possessions they had acquired, to carry arrogance to the point of rivalling crowned princes in pomp and grandeur, to refuse their aid against the enemies of the faith, as the history of Saladin testifies, and finally to ally themselves with that horrible and sanguinary prince named the Old Man of the Mountain, Prince of the Assassins.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

If she is "hopeless"—meaning neither pretty nor attractive nor a good dancer—even the ushers are in time forced to relieve her partners and take her to a dowager friend of the hostess, beside whom she will be obliged to sit until she learns that she must seek her popularity otherwhere than at balls.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Why he was called “farmer” I cannot say, unless it be that he was the owner of a cow, a pig or two, and some poultry, which he maintained on about an acre of land inclosed from the middle of a wild common, on which probably his father had squatted before lords of manors looked as keenly after their rights as they do now.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

Nothing is more embarrassing in the ordinary intercourse of life than this irritable patriotism of the Americans.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Thus when Stewart ( Philosophy of the Active and Moral Powers , Book ii.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

This, however, fell through; he failed, Vasari tells us, to satisfy himself in his trial picture of the Assumption of the Virgin, a subject not well suited to his mind.
— from Botticelli by Henry Bryan Binns

It shall in like manner be unlawful for any such person, or persons, to assist, or be in any manner engaged or concerned in or about such unlawful killing, wounding, or destroying of any such buffaloes; that any person who shall violate the provisions of the act shall, on conviction, forfeit and pay to the United States the sum of $100 for each offense (and each buffalo so unlawfully killed, wounded, or destroyed shall be and constitute a separate offense), and on a conviction of a second offense may be committed to prison for a period not exceeding thirty days; and that all United States judges, justices, courts, and legal tribunals in said Territories shall have jurisdiction in cases of the violation of the law.
— from The Extermination of the American Bison by William T. (William Temple) Hornaday

The sedimentary rocks were laid down during the Cretaceous Period, the closing period of the “Age of Reptiles,” in a great ocean, whose shore line enters Kansas at the mouth of Cow Creek on the Arkansas River, and extending in a northwesterly direction in the vicinity of Beatrice, Nebraska, touches Iowa, and passes on to Greenland.
— from The Life of a Fossil Hunter by Charles H. (Charles Hazelius) Sternberg

Now, during the first week, the Theatres having begun to prepare “the Grand Christmas Pantomime, which has been in active preparation all the Summer,” the Carpenter for the time being, among other ingenious changes which he {270} contemplates, looks forward with the most lively satisfaction to that which is to metamorphose him (in the play-bills at least) into a “machinist;” while, pending the said preparations, even the “Stars” of the Company are “shorn of their beams” (at least in making their transit through that part of their hemisphere which is included behind the scenes), and all things give way before the march of that monstrous medley of “inexplicable dumb show and noise,” which is to delight the Galleries and Dress-circle, and horrify the more genteel portion of the audience, for the next nine weeks.
— from Mirror of the Months by P. G. (Peter George) Patmore

As he tossed on his pillows he pondered over the apparent reticence and indifference of the archbishop.
— from The Puppet Crown by Harold MacGrath

The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
— from A History of Jefferson, Marion County, Texas, 1836-1936 by McKay, Arch, Mrs.

Whether the two knights did not perceive that his words were addressed to them, or whether they were unwilling to reply, they spoke not; and Ferdinand of Altenburg, taking another step forward, laid his hand upon the table, saying, in a firm, clear tone, "My lords and noble knights, I am here according to my word, to answer aught that may be brought against me, and to pray your judgment in all causes between me and this good lord here present, he and I having both pledged ourselves to abide by your decision, in whatever the one may have against the other."
— from The Castle of Ehrenstein Its Lords Spiritual and Temporal; Its Inhabitants Earthly and Unearthly by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

A unique feature in this case consisted in the exclusive discharge of immature worms almost regularly throughout an interval of nine weeks; this cannot be explained from our present knowledge of the biology and pathology of the Ascaridæ .
— from The Animal Parasites of Man by Fred. V. (Frederick Vincent) Theobald