Moreover, experience, not content with its proper position of subordination, was the great foe to the acknowledgment of the authority of reason.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

To eat our cake and have it, to lose our soul and save it, to enjoy the physical privileges of selfishness and the moral luxury of altruism at the same time, would be the ideal.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

As this was the town to which the company belonged, they hastened home in a close body, as the proper place of security from such enemy wizards.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

fuī has no perfect participle or supine.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Linacre often translated it conveniens , and it may usually be rendered proper , peculiar , own special , or own particular in English.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

My humanity is a perpetual process of self-mastery.
— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

pampa , f. , an extensive plain, pampas ( of South America ).
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

Natural selection in each well-stocked country, must act chiefly through the competition of the inhabitants one with another, and consequently will produce perfection, or strength in the battle for life, only according to the standard of that country.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

She was about eighty tons burthen, capitally appointed, and with rare qualities as a sea-boat; in her I had the happiness to pass many days, when the poor people on shore were pitiably grilled, cruising for codfish, and dishing them up into a sort of soup called chowder; this formed, in fact, the one great object of my present life, and I availed myself of every occasion to pursue it.
— from Impressions of America During the Years 1833, 1834 and 1835. Volume 2 (of 2) by Tyrone Power

The poetry can be divided into three main schools: surrealist poetry, poetry of spiritual revolt, and a return-to-tradition balladry.
— from Area Handbook for Romania by Eugene K. Keefe

Scott had forty thousand dollars for 'Woodstock,' which was not a very large novel, and was by no means one of his best; and forty thousand dollars then had at least the purchasing power of sixty thousand now.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg William Dean Howells Literature Essays by William Dean Howells

[23] of the natives and inhabitants thereof, and not possessed by any European Sovereign, Potentate, Prince, or State, to be called by the name of Caledonia ; and the said Council General, reposing full trust and confidence in the capacity, fidelity, discretion, and good conduct of their trusty and well-beloved friends, Major James Cunningham of Eickett, Mr. James Montgomery, Mr. Daniel Mackay, Cap n Robert Jolly, Cap n Robert Pennicuik, Cap n William Vetch, and Cap n Robert Pinkarton,—have Resolved and fully agreed upon the following fundamental Constitutions as a perpetual Rule of Government for the said Colony, viz.
— from The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.) by J. Pringle (James Pringle) Thomson

“I don’t want to put people out so!
— from Across the Years by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

It is sufficient to read a few chapters of Ptolemy, Plutarch, or Surya-Siddhanta for an account of these conjectures.
— from Urania by Camille Flammarion

"' 'There the politician peeped out,' said the Colonel. 'Well, at least he concluded like a king's son—"Take the passport; I have added a condition for form's sake; but if the Colonel objects to it, let him depart without giving any parole whatever.
— from Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since by Walter Scott

Had he possessed a perfectly philosophic or scientific temper he would have hesitated.
— from Essays from 'The Guardian' by Walter Pater