If we try to discover what sort of new property the relation to an object gives to our subjective representations, and what new importance they thereby receive, we shall find that this relation has no other effect than that of rendering necessary the connection of our representations in a certain manner, and of subjecting them to a rule; and that conversely, it is only because a certain order is necessary in the relations of time of our representations, that objective significancy is ascribed to them.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

and it must be admitted there was no pretension about her; her abruptness and unevenness of manner were plainly the result of her secluded and lowly circumstances.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

During the minority of the proprietor, the rent, together with the management of his lands, fell into the hands of his immediate superior; and, consequently, those of all great proprietors into the hands of the king, who was charged with the maintenance and education of the pupil, and who, from his authority as guardian, was supposed to have a right of disposing of him in marriage, provided it was in a manner not unsuitable to his rank.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

His first love was Daphne (daughter of Peneus, the river-god), who was so averse to marriage that she entreated her father to allow her to lead a life of celibacy, and devote herself to the chase, which she loved to the exclusion of all other pursuits.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

It would have been uncourteous on my part to resist any longer.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

At seven o’clock I had lost more than half that sum, but for all that I put the rest in my pocket and rose from the table.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Mechanically he rose and proceeded to repack the luncheon-basket, carefully and without haste.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

On the same day I received a letter from young Capitani, in which he informed me that, being the owner of St. Peter’s knife and sheath, he had called on Franzia with two learned magicians who had promised to raise the treasure out of the earth, and that to his great surprise Franzia had refused to receive him: He entreated me to write to the worthy fellow, and to go to him myself if I wanted to have my share of the treasure.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

But young Ilioneus received the spear; Ilioneus, his father's only care: (Phorbas the rich, of all the Trojan train Whom Hermes loved, and taught the arts of gain:) Full in his eye the weapon chanced to fall,
— from The Iliad by Homer

'tis an hour past the rising of the sun!"
— from The Water-Witch; Or, the Skimmer of the Seas: A Tale by James Fenimore Cooper

There was no appeal to the lurid, no picture of the tumbling palaces, the running figures, the coughing explosions, the shaking of the earth and the dying of the doomed.
— from Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson

The Russians embarked, but the guns at Castle Cornet were kept shotted to prevent their relanding.
— from The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock, K.B. Interspersed with notices of the celebrated Indian chief, Tecumseh, and comprising brief memoirs of Daniel De Lisle Brock, Esq., Lieutenant E.W. Tupper, R.N., and Colonel W. De Vic Tupper by Brock, Isaac, Sir

Both of these ran down to the water’s edge, and the bank of the river near both of them was fully twenty feet high, and perpendicular; but half-way between them was a natural depression in the plain, that ran at a [Pg 118] gentle slope down to the bank, where it was only four or five feet above the water, which was very deep right up to the bank.
— from Camp Fire Yarns of the Lost Legion by G. Hamilton-Browne

In some places the river widened into lagoons, and we seemed to be in a maze of islands.
— from The Sea and the Jungle by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson

Offended by the refusal of Julian to continue their subsidies, they had transferred their services wholly to the other side, and pursued the Romans with a hostility that was sharpened by indignation and resentment.
— from The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 7: The Sassanian or New Persian Empire The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. by George Rawlinson

Being wise, Miss Grover desisted from urging, and went with Sally to the desolated cabin, which she straightway began to overhaul and put to rights.
— from The Call of the Cumberlands by Charles Neville Buck

It has become so common among people to request everything “by return mail” that business men look upon such requests as a mere form, rather than as an evidence of urgency.
— from Practical Etiquette by Cora C. Klein

But although such was George Bascombe’s judgment of Leopold, and such his conduct of his affair, he could not prevent the recurrent intrusion of the flickering doubt which had showed itself when first he listened to the story.
— from Thomas Wingfold, Curate by George MacDonald

The physical man made powerful by science and the soul developed by art naturally produced the result of spiritual freedom.
— from The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar by William Richard Bradshaw