[of the purposiveness of nature] fit to be the mediating link between the realm of the natural concept and that of the concept of freedom in its effects; whilst at the same time it promotes the sensibility of the mind for moral feeling.—The following table may facilitate the review of all the higher faculties according to their systematic unity.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

“Your Majesty must send your ministers, who must observe the Buddhist rules of abstinence, to Hsiang Shan, where they will be given what is required.” “Where is Hsiang Shan, and how far from here?” “About three thousand or more li , but I myself will indicate the route to be followed; in a very short time they will return.” The King, who was suffering terribly, was more contented when he heard that the journey could be rapidly accomplished.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

As I look across the bay, there is seen resting over all the hills, and even upon every distant sail, an enchanted veil of palest blue, that seems woven out of the very souls of happy days,—a bridal veil, with which the sunshine weds this soft landscape in summer.
— from Fifteen sonnets of Petrarch by Francesco Petrarca

"Suppose you were to run on and tell her," the Major said.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

He then asks that he may be indestructible by all creatures more powerful than men; which boon is accorded by Brahmá together with the recovery of all the heads he had sacrificed and the power of assuming any shape he pleased.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Note 1112 ( return ) [ Odysseus appears to have been mentioned once only—and that casually—in the "Returns".
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

Pray speak very seriously to him on this subject, and make him realize that he will most seriously displease me if he remains obstinate, and that he will certainly regret the measures I shall be obliged to take to enforce my will.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

That indeed which gives me the present Thought of this kind, is, that a careless Groom of mine has spoiled me the prettiest Pad in the World with only riding him ten Miles, and I assure you, if I were to make a Register of all the Horses I have known thus abused by Negligence of Servants, the Number would mount a Regiment.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

rst occasionally and then habitually, by the pollen-devouring insects from flower to flower, and a cross thus effected, although nine-tenths of the pollen were destroyed it might still be a great gain to the plant to be thus robbed; and the individuals which produced more and more pollen, and had larger anthers, would be selected.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

And the boy being in a kind of a flighty sleep, too, we muffled the oars and hitched the raft on, and towed her over very nice and quiet, and the nigger never made the least row nor said a word from the start.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

So soon, however, as the first indications of spring commence, in those regions of almost tropical heat, the woodcock wings its way with the unerring certainty of instinct which guides him back, as surely as the magnet points to the pole, to the very wood and the very brake of the wood in which he was hatched, and commences the duties of nidification.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVII, No. 1, July 1850 by Various

Truth is the rock of ages, the head- 380:6 stone of the corner, "but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder."
— from Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

The Romans were further gladdened by the pageant of a long train of Judæan captives heavily chained, and by the wonderful representations of all the horrors and misery of the war—a kind of theatrical entertainment, devised with much ingenuity for the occasion.
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 2 (of 6) by Heinrich Graetz

that rhind Other Angelica than his had signed.
— from Studies in the Poetry of Italy, Part II. Italian by Oscar Kuhns

But the heights were the scenes of battles in the last resort, and the gorges are associated with the advance and retreat of armed hosts, the rush of the invader and the headlong retreat of armies that had been surprised and routed from above.
— from The Holy Land by John Kelman

Suddenly he felt a hand reach out and touch his shoulder.
— from The Lost Mine of the Amazon A Hal Keen Mystery Story by Hugh Lloyd

No doubt When ancient chivalry display'd The pomp of her heroic games, And crested knights and tissued dames Assembled at the clarion's call, In some proud castle's high-arch'd hall, that a degree of pomp and splendour met the eye of the minstrel and romancer on which the bards of the simple republics of ancient times had never gazed, and this might account for the difference between the poetry of ancient and of middle-age Europe.
— from The Fairy Mythology Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various Countries by Thomas Keightley

As this was the only explanation, good or bad, offered them by Mignon, the magistrates went away, and drew up a report of all they had seen and heard without comment, merely appending their signatures.
— from Urbain Grandier Celebrated Crimes by Alexandre Dumas

Although I doubt it in my heart of hearts, I must put it upon record that I still have a curious and ineradicable belief that I can, by a mere effort of volition, get rid of all the horrors that surround me and become good and normal once more.
— from The Drunkard by Guy Thorne