For [to represent it sensibly] would require a comprehension having for unit a standard bearing a definite relation, expressible in numbers, to the infinite; which is impossible.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

[Footnote: The Iroquois, according to Châteaubriand, called themselves Ongoueonoue, the "men of always," signifying that they were a race eternal, immortal, not to fade away.—"Travels in America," 2:93.] had actually come and were to divide and distribute among themselves the stores of millions of years as if reserved for them from the foundation of the world.
— from The French in the Heart of America by John H. (John Huston) Finley

Without these signs few men to-day could tell an old from a new road, though, in fact, there are not many great lengths of entirely new road except in new towns and newly drained regions; elsewhere the new roads have been made by linking up or improving old ones.
— from The Icknield Way by Edward Thomas

Coleridge, who was but little younger than Wordsworth, had the more richly equipped, if not the more richly endowed, mind.
— from Selections from Wordsworth and Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

But repressed evil is none the less evil, and often works a greater inward corruption than when it is allowed to show itself as it is.
— from Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by James Freeman Clarke

The leaflets of the rose, it may be remarked, expand in nearly the same manner as a fan, and the operations of this ingenious little insect retain them in the form of a fan nearly shut.
— from Insect Architecture by James Rennie

In the developed theory of the Realists, genera and species—the distinctive attributes of individual beings, or the conceptions of those attributes—are real entities, if not the only realities.
— from A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume III by Henry Charles Lea

A collection of data is found in M.W. Fisher and L.E. Rose, England, India, Nepal, Tibet, China, 1765-1958 , Berkeley 1959.
— from A History of China by Wolfram Eberhard

As the years have passed on he has prospered in his undertakings by reason of his close application and indefatigable energy and, making judicious investment in real estate, is now the owner of five hundred and sixty-five acres of excellent farm land and is regarded as one of the prominent agriculturists of his section of the state.
— from Lyman's History of old Walla Walla County, Vol. 2 Embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties by William Denison Lyman

In that way it was found that the heating power of the spectrum is equal in every part of it; and hence the pictures in treatises on physics that represent the heating power of the spectrum to be concentrated at the red end is not true save where the spectrum is irregularly produced.
— from The Telephone An Account of the Phenomena of Electricity, Magnetism, and Sound, as Involved in Its Action by A. E. (Amos Emerson) Dolbear

Neither had been to Repulse Bay, but both had been to Wager River, and they agreed that it was unmistakably a river and not a strait; but in every other respect, even in naming the places they had seen, they were at variance.
— from Round About the North Pole by W. J. (William John) Gordon