But when persons reside in a place and get used to it, they can always find something beautiful in it,—something for which they long, even in the most charming spot in the world which is not home.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

But till I meet with such-a-one, which I despair of, I cannot forbear concluding, that since we can never distinctly conceive how any particular power can possibly reside in any particular object, we deceive ourselves in imagining we can form any such general idea.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Juvenal, who had begun his Satires several years before, continued to inveigh against the flagrant vices of the times; but the only author whose writings we have to notice in the present reign, is a poet of a different class.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Coming out she paused to look for a moment at the bull, now rather to be pitied with his bleeding nose, having perhaps rather intended a practical joke than a murder.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

Pure reason is a perfect unity; and therefore, if the principle presented by it prove to be insufficient for the solution of even a single one of those questions to which the very nature of reason gives birth, we must reject it, as we could not be perfectly certain of its sufficiency in the case of the others.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

But in life a proposal really is a proposal—” “By the way—” “—a suggestion, a seed,” she concluded; and the thought flew away into darkness.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

Another shock occurred, and the place recovered its ancient position, except that there was an alteration (in the surface of the ground) in some places, and none in others.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

But we discover variations from this course, and we proceed to suppose that the planets revolve in a path which, if not a circle, is of a character very similar to it.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

How is it possible to conceive an Extension of Pure Reason in a Practical point of view, without its Knowledge as Speculative being enlarged at the same time?
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

By the well-known edict of Caracalla, his subjects, from Britain to Egypt, were entitled to the name and privileges of Romans, and their national sovereign might fix his occasional or permanent residence in any province of their common country.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

While she unravels the knotted cares of her husband in the evening with her bright and cheery talk, while she encourages him in all his plans and heartens him for all his duties, her busy fingers are making clothes for the children, repairing, adapting, improving, or else are skilfully constructing ornaments and decorations for the household, turning the poor room into a palace, making the walls beam with beauty and the hearts of all within laugh for joy.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Proverbs by Robert F. (Robert Forman) Horton

64 Pastoral may sometimes admit plain, but not long Narrations such as Socrates in Plato requires in a Poet; for he chiefly approves those who use a plain Narration , and commends that above all other which is short, and fitly expresseth the nature of the Thing.
— from De Carmine Pastorali Prefixed to Thomas Creech's translation of the Idylliums of Theocritus (1684) by René Rapin

Professor Peck recognized it as P. odorata.
— from Toadstools, mushrooms, fungi, edible and poisonous; one thousand American fungi How to select and cook the edible; how to distinguish and avoid the poisonous, with full botanic descriptions. Toadstool poisons and their treatment, instructions to students, recipes for cooking, etc., etc. by Charles McIlvaine

This snake is admitted by all hands to be virulently poisonous, and the poison is said to be even more virulent than that of the dreaded cobra:"— [Pg 68] Rahimudden , aged 43, Mussulman, customs peon, admitted for treatment of snakebite on the 13th September, 1892, at 10.45 p.m., to the North India Salt Revenue Hospital, Pachhadra, Rajputana, India, and put under my treatment.
— from On Snake-Poison: Its Action and Its Antidote by A. Mueller

—Every family should take a newspaper; this, the lady of the house should insist [384] upon—kindly, to be sure; for a pleasant request is as powerful as "a soft answer" in "turning away wrath."
— from Mrs. Hale's Receipts for the Million Containing Four Thousand Five Hundred and Forty-five Receipts, Facts, Directions, etc. in the Useful, Ornamental, and Domestic Arts by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale

… (1) The fact that no fewer than one hundred petitions for a change in the form of State have been received from people residing in all parts of the country shows that the people are of one mind concerning this matter.
— from The Fight for the Republic in China by B. L. (Bertram Lenox) Putnam Weale

On the 30th of the same month, the Prince Regent issued a proclamation, warning all His Majesty's subjects against treasonable and seditious meetings, and malpractices generally, and saying, inter alia — "And whereas, it hath been represented unto us, that at one of such meetings the persons there assembled, in gross violation of the law, did attempt to constitute and appoint, and did, as much as in them lay, constitute and appoint, a person then nominated, to sit in their name, and in their behalf, in the Commons House of Parliament; and there is reason to believe that other meetings are about to be held for the like unlawful purpose.
— from Personal Recollections of Birmingham and Birmingham Men by Eliezer Edwards