148 The concept of this cannot be established as regards its objective reality in any experience possible for us and thus adequately for the theoretical use of Reason; but its use is commanded by practical pure Reason [in reference to the best possible working out of that purpose], 149 and it consequently must be assumed possible.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

[1] And then people pretend Racine is our most touching writer!
— from On Love by Stendhal

As pure practical reason, it likewise seeks to find the unconditioned for the practically conditioned (which rests on inclinations and natural wants), and this is not as the determining principle of the will, but even when this is given (in the moral law) it seeks the unconditioned totality of the object of pure practical reason under the name of the summum bonum.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

Secondly, it is a necessary reaction toward an unconscious psychological process, revealed in other ways, and it is to this very circumstance that it owes its obsessional nature, that is, its resistance to arguments based on logic or fact.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

From the association's secretary each member received a package of more or less gorgeous blanks, printed like a billhead, on handsome paper, properly ruled in columns; a bill-head worded something like this— These blanks were filled up, day by day, as the voyage progressed, and deposited in the several wharf-boat boxes.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

[221] In the earlier stage of moral development, referred to in the preceding paragraph, retribution inflicted on the wrongdoer was regarded as the normal mode of reparation to the person injured.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

t of his playing a passive part, recall it, and so his will would contradict itself.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

The sanctity of civil government and the sacredness of its responsibilities are coming to be recognised, at present perhaps rather in theory than in practice.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Books of Chronicles by W. H. (William Henry) Bennett

128 f Orsha (Moghilev), III 128 Pereyaslav (Poltava), II 265 Podolia (government), II 256, 304 Polotzk (Vitebsk), I 243 Romny, III 128 Rostov, II 358 Rovno (Volhynia), III 99 Saratov, III 130 Semyonovka (Chernigov), III 129 Shpola (Kiev), III 33 Simferopol (Tavrida), III 115 , 128 Smyela (Kiev), II 256; III 99 Starodub (Chernigov), II 411 ff Syedletz (Poland), III 119 Troyanov (Volhynia), III 116 ff Vilna, I 154, 245 Vitebsk (city), I 154, 245 Vitebsk (government), III 101 Volhynia (government), II 256 Voronyezh, III 130 Warsaw, II 280 ff Yekaterinoslav, II 359 f, III 128 Yelisavetgrad, II 249 ff, III 128 Zhitomir (Volhynia), III 115 ff See also Self-Defence [Pg 339] Poklonski , Russian colonel, massacres Jews of Moghilev, I 153 f Pokutye ( Polish , Pokucie), region in Poland, I 150 Polakov, Lazarus , Jewish financier in Moscow, II 400 Polakov, Samuel , Jewish financier in St. Petersburg, participates in Jewish Conference, II 304 discusses Jewish question with Ignatyev, II 305 f Poland , first partition of (1772), I 262 condition of Jews in, after first partition, I 263 ff, 270 schemes for improving condition of Jews in, I 271 ff, 284 inner life of Jews in, I 274 ff Hasidism spreads in, I 231 f problem of Jews in, discussed in Polish literature, I 280 ff Polish Diet appoints committee to consider Jewish question, I 287 f; postpones action, I 290 second partition of (1793), and revolution under Kosciuszko, I 292 f patriotism of Jews in, I 292 ff third partition of (1795), I 297 reconstituted by Napoleon as Duchy of Warsaw (1807), I 297 equality of all citizens proclaimed in, I 298 Government of, suspends emancipation of Jews (1808), I 299, II 100 f Government of, passes anti-Jewish restrictions, I 300 assimilated Jews of, apply for equal rights, I 300 ff; and are refused, I 302 Jews of, released from military service (1812), I 304 Jews of, barred from liquor trade (1812), I 304, II 100 French influences among Jews of, I 385 f growth of Hasidism in, I 384, II 122 Poles side with Napoleon in Franco-Russian War, I 355; and threaten to massacre Jews and Russians, I 357 reconstituted as "Kingdom of Poland," and assigned by Congress of Vienna to Russia [Russian Poland, or Congress Poland] (1815), I 390 granted complete autonomy by Alexander I., II 88 number of Jews in kingdom of, I 390 [Pg 340] Government of, appoints Committee on Jewish Question (1815), II 89 David Friedländer of Berlin submits memorandum on Jews of, II 90 Zayonchek, viceroy of, opposed to Jewish emancipation, II 91 f Polish Diet unfriendly to Jews of, II 93 f, 99 f Government of, passes anti-Jewish restrictions, II 94 f condition of Jews in, discussed in Polish literature, II 95 ff blood accusation in, II 74; forbidden by Russian Government, II 99 assimilationist tendencies among Jews of, II 100 ff Kahals abolished in, and replaced by Gminas (1822), II 102 Government of, appoints Committee to Polonize Jews, II 103 anti-Semitism in, II 104 f, 178 Polish insurrection of 1831, II 33, 105 Jews volunteer in revolutionary army of, II 105 ff Polish writers express sympathy with Jews, II 108 f Nicholas I. imposes conscription on Jews of (1843), II 109 f prohibition of Jewish dress in Russia extended to (1845), II 110 Jews of, continue to wear Jewish dress, II 145 influence of Talmud prevails in, II 51 Hasidism firmly established in, II 122 f Polish insurrection of 1863, II 178 ff, 182 f patriotic attitude of Jews in, II 179 ff Jewish disabilities in, removed by Alexander II.
— from History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, Volume 3 [of 3] From the Accession of Nicholas II until the Present Day by Simon Dubnow

Since however, sense exhibits another more conspicuous life, pertaining to beings which are moved according to impulse and place, this must be established prior to that, as being a more proper principle, and as the supplier of a certain better form, that of a self-moved animal, and which naturally precedes plants rooted in the earth.
— from Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato by Thomas Taylor

A pastoral people, rich in meadow-lands, secured by laborious dykes, and secluded from the struggling outside world.
— from Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses by Frederic S. (Frederic Swartwout) Cozzens

It was a large room with a sanded floor clean scoured, a high backed settle, a deal table, a dresser with pewter plates ranged in rows, reflecting the redness and radiance of a glowing fire in a huge fireplace.
— from Peggy Owen, Patriot: A Story for Girls by Lucy Foster Madison

" "Oh, your Majesty!" pleaded poor Rinkitink, "I beg you to allow me to amuse you in some other way.
— from Rinkitink in Oz Wherein Is Recorded the Perilous Quest of Prince Inga of Pingaree and King Rinkitink in the Magical Isles That Lie Beyond the Borderland of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

On my journey thither I went out of my way to take a new book of Dr. Luther's to my poor priest Ruprecht in Franconia.
— from Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family by Elizabeth Rundle Charles

If a lad grows up and marries, and his father or father-in-law has no land to give him, he may purchase in the pueblo, or the pueblo may assign him land, whereby the title in fee as private property remains in him until he sells or dies.
— from Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines by Lewis Henry Morgan

Al Jumhuriyah al Iraqiyah local short form: Al Iraq Government type: parliamentary democracy Capital: name: Baghdad geographic coordinates: 33 21 N, 44 25 E time difference: UTC+3 (8 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time) daylight saving time: +1hr, begins 1 April; ends 1 October Administrative divisions: 18 governorates (muhafazat, singular - muhafazah); Al Anbar, Al Basrah, Al Muthanna, Al Qadisiyah, An Najaf, Arbil, As Sulaymaniyah, At Ta'mim, Babil, Baghdad, Dahuk, Dhi Qar, Diyala, Karbala', Maysan, Ninawa, Salah ad Din, Wasit Independence: 3 October 1932 (from League of Nations mandate under British administration); note - on 28 June 2004 the Coalition Provisional Authority transferred sovereignty to the Iraqi Interim Government National holiday: Revolution Day, 17 July (1968); note - this holiday was celebrated under the SADDAM Husayn regime; the Government of Iraq has yet to declare a new national holiday Constitution: ratified on 15 October 2005 (subject to review by the Constitutional Review Committee and a possible public referendum in 2007)
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency