Now the practical reference is either to skill or to morality; to the former, when the end proposed is arbitrary and accidental, to the latter, when it is absolutely necessary.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

It appears to me a most perfect resemblance in every feature.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

Thus, "the whole is greater than its part;" "reaction is equal to action;" "the smallest weight may be made to lift the greatest, the difference of weight being compensated by time;" and many the like propositions, which have an ethical as well as physical sense.
— from Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Deus glorificatus est, et Scripturæ vere divinæ creditæ sunt, omnibus eandem et eisdem verbis et eisdem nominibus recitantibus ab initio usque ad finem, uti et præsentes gentes cognoscerent quoniam per inspirationem Dei interpretatæ sunt Scripturæ, et non esset mirabile Deum hoc in eis operatum: quando in ea captivitate populi quæ facta est a Nabuchodonosor, corruptis scripturis et post 70 annos Judæis descendentibus in regionem suam, et post deinde temporibus Artaxerxis Persarum regis, inspiravit Esdræ sacerdoti tribus Levi præteritorum prophetarum omnes rememorare sermones, et restituere populo eam legem quæ data est per Moysen.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

Another question is, whether, through the loss of a great battle, forces are not perhaps roused into existence, which otherwise would never have come to life.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

Closely considered, the solution of the problem, represented in either way, amounts, with regard to the pure cognition of nature (which is the point of the question at issue), entirely to the same thing.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

In fact, the utility of the philosophy of pure reason is entirely of this negative character.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

An epithet, a sparkling epigram, a pacifying reflection is enough for her; she does not need a whole construction of reason, and thus she proceeds to do things that we again call “weak.”
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

But this principle of pure reason is evidently synthetical; for, analytically, the conditioned certainly relates to some condition, but not to the unconditioned.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

The world consisted of only two people, mutually radiating a glow flush with passion; retreating into each other so totally that no imaginable distrac- tion could disturb their urgings.
— from Terminal Compromise by Winn Schwartau

The conditions of the shooting-match were simple enough: to become one of the candidates it was only necessary to subscribe to the common purse, for the purpose of defraying the expense of the cup—the charge was two carlins for each shot, for which the party received in exchange a number, drawn by chance, which fixed the order in which each man was to fire.
— from The Sicilian Bandit From the Volume "Captain Paul" by Alexandre Dumas

No sooner were the difficulties of the position recognised in England than an outcry arose that Gordon ought to be sent to undertake the herculean task.
— from General Gordon A Christian Hero by Seton Churchill

Oxford, University of, its inferiority to Cambridge in intellectual activity, 343 344 ; its disaffection to the House of Hanover, 402 36 ; rose into favor with the government under Bute, 36 P. Painting, correctness in, 343 ; causes of its decline in England after the civil wars, 157 Paley, Archdeacon, 261 Mr. Gladstone's opinion of his defence of the Church, 122 ; his reasoning the same as that by which Socrates confuted Aristodemus, 303 ; his views on "the origin of evil," 273 276 Pallas, the birthplace of Goldsmith, 151 Paoli, his admiration of Miss Burney, 271 Papacy, its influence, 314 ; effect of Luther's public renunciation of communion with it, 315 Paper currency, Southey's notions of, 151 152 Papists, line of demarcation between them and Protestants, 362 Papists and Puritans, persecution of, by Elizabeth, 439 Paradise, picture of, in old Bibles, 343 ; painting of, by a gifted master, 343 Paradise Regained, its excellence, 219 Paris, influence of its opinions among the educated classes in Italy, 144 Parker, Archbishop, 31 Parliaments of the 15 th century, their condition, 479 Parliament, the, sketch of its proceedings, 470 540 Parliament of James I., 440 441 Charles I., his first, 443 444 ; his second, 444 445 ; its dissolution, 446 ; his fifth, 401 Parliament, effect of the publication of its proceedings, 180 Parliament, Long.
— from Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 4 With a Memoir and Index by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

He adds that the purchaser resided in either America or Australia, and that the picture is now, therefore, presumably in one or other of those countries.
— from Arrows of the Chace, vol. 1/2 being a collection of scattered letters published chiefly in the daily newspapers 1840-1880 by John Ruskin

f, without the presence of race distinctions, it needed Parliamentary reform in England itself to force the ruling class to study with real sympathy the needs, character, and desires of their own people, naturally the same ruling class, sending out its own members or dependents to America, obtained the most grotesquely distorted notions of what Americans were and what they wanted or resented.
— from The Framework of Home Rule by Erskine Childers

The disgust which The Vision of Judgment had produced, rendered it easy to persuade the world that there was impiety in the Heaven and Earth , although, in point of fact, it may be described as hallowed with the Scriptural theology of Milton.
— from The Life of Lord Byron by John Galt

A third war between these countries in 1971 - in which India capitalized on Islamabad's marginalization of Bengalis in Pakistani politics - resulted in East Pakistan becoming the separate nation of Bangladesh.
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Parish Registers in England : their History and Contents.
— from France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 by William Henry Hurlbert