But in the absence of a final purpose which pure Reason alone can supply (because all purposes in the world are empirically conditioned, and can contain nothing absolutely good but only what is good for this or that regarded as a contingent design), and which alone would teach me what properties, what degree, and what relation of the Supreme Cause to nature I have to think in order to judge of nature as a teleological system; how and with what right do I dare to extend at pleasure my very limited concept of that original Understanding (which I can base on my limited knowledge of the world), of the Might of that original Being in actualising its Ideas, and of its Will to do so, and complete this into the Idea of an Allwise, Infinite Being?
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

We stopped short at the second front row; I could hardly understand why, until I heard Miss Pole ask a stray waiter if any of the county families were expected; and when he shook his head, and believed not, Mrs Forrester and Miss Matty moved forwards, and our party represented a conversational square.
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

What fear is there that thy dogmata, or philosophical resolutions and conclusions, should become dead in thee, and lose their proper power and efficacy to make thee live happy, as long as those proper and correlative fancies, and representations of things on which they mutually depend (which continually to stir up and revive is in thy power,) are still kept fresh and alive?
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

Any one who composes a couple of operas in Paris receives a certain sum yearly.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

But where we find, as in the case of pure reason, a complete system of illusions and fallacies, closely connected with each other and depending upon grand general principles, there seems to be required a peculiar and negative code of mental legislation, which, under the denomination of a discipline, and founded upon the nature of reason and the objects of its exercise, shall constitute a system of thorough examination and testing, which no fallacy will be able to withstand or escape from, under whatever disguise or concealment it may lurk.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

And although his assertions afterwards had seemed perfectly reasonable and convincing, she could not get rid of an uneasy suspicion that the Doctor, metaphorically speaking, had been throwing dust in her eyes.
— from The Mysteries of Heron Dyke: A Novel of Incident. Volume 3 (of 3) by T. W. (Thomas Wilkinson) Speight

Accept my thanks for the invitation with which you have honored me, and believe me, with much personal regard and constant sympathy, Sincerely yours, Charles Sumner .
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 07 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

In 1968, an invasion by Warsaw Pact troops ended the efforts of the country's leaders to liberalize Communist party rule and create "socialism with a human face."
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Dried pumpkin was a poor sweetening instead of molasses; maple sugar and honey were not esteemed as was sugar; tea was ill-replaced by raspberry leaves, loosestrife, hardhack, [159] goldenrod, dittany, blackberry leaves, yeopon, sage, and a score of other herbs; coffee was better than parched rye and chestnuts; spices could not be compensated for or remotely imitated by any substitutes.
— from Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle

The intention of the king with regard to the poor knights was to provide relief and comfortable subsistence for such valiant soldiers as happened in their old age to fall into poverty and decay.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1660 N.S. by Samuel Pepys

Many persons enter their children in several clubs; and, as the burial of the child does not necessarily cost more than £1, or at the most £1 10 s. , the parent realizes a considerable sum after all the expenses are paid.
— from The White Slaves of England by John C. Cobden

There, on a half-cracked hill of clay, stand a dozen houses, covered with the leaves of the “boiassu” palm placed round a central space.
— from Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon by Jules Verne

General Gage seized the powder at Charlestown, in consequence of which the people rose and compelled several officers of the king's government to resign.
— from The Every Day Book of History and Chronology Embracing the Anniversaries of Memorable Persons and Events in Every Period and State of the World, from the Creation to the Present Time by Joel Munsell

Paul disappears as but a passive recipient; and Christ strides into the front as the actor in his conversion and apostleship.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. by Alexander Maclaren