For, if they reflect upon and examine their own arguments, they will find that, after following for some time the path of nature and experience, and discovering themselves no nearer their object, they suddenly leave this path and pass into the region of pure possibility, where they hope to reach upon the wings of ideas what had eluded all their empirical investigations.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

[431] This found no favour with Porphyry, and very justly; for it is indeed foolish to believe that souls should desire to return from that life, which cannot be very blessed unless by the assurance of its permanence, and to come back into this life, and to the pollution of corruptible bodies, as if the result of perfect purification were only to make defilement desirable.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

A FOREST WALK Hester Prynne remained constant in her resolve to make known to Mr. Dimmesdale, at whatever risk of present pain or ulterior consequences, the true character of the man who had crept into his intimacy.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

It made the national state an intermediary between the realization of private personality on one side and of humanity on the other.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

7. In general terms--the war to cease; a general amnesty, so far as the Executive of the United States can command, on condition of the disbandment of the Confederate armies, the distribution of the arms, and the resumption of peaceful pursuits by the officers and men hitherto composing said armies.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

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— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

In the great ‘register of patents’ ( patta bahi ) of Mewar we find a species of [498] bhum held by the greater vassals on particular crown lands; whether this originated from inability of ceding entire townships to complete the estate to the rank of the incumbent, or whether it was merely in confirmation of the grant of the commune, could not be ascertained.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

A treaty of peace and alliance was concluded between the two empires, and the limits of the East and West were defined by the right of present possession.
— 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

These were for real use: the forty rows of Ptolemy Philadelphus were applied to a floating palace, whose tonnage, according to Dr. Arbuthnot, (Tables of Ancient Coins, &c., p. 231-236,) is compared as 4 1/2 to 1 with an English 100 gun ship.
— 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

Hence the idea of a cosmopolitan right is no fantastical, high-flown notion of right, but a complement of the unwritten code of law—constitutional as well as international law—necessary for the public rights of mankind in general and thus for the realisation of perpetual peace.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

Vocational rehabilitation of psychiatric patients.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1977 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

In my reply, after expressing my thanks, and speaking of the public services of those who had assisted in the great work of postal reform, I proceeded to a short review of the principal results of penny postage up to that time.
— from The Life of Sir Rowland Hill and the History of Penny Postage, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Hill, Rowland, Sir

She melted and wept, thanking him: she offered him her remnant of pride, pitiful to behold.
— from Beauchamp's Career — Volume 6 by George Meredith

As the individual sovereignty of the seven states established itself more and more securely, the right of provincial power to dictate religious dogmas, and to superintend the popular conscience, was exercised with a placid arrogance which papal infallibility could scarcely exceed.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

The case is represented as though everybody were highly interested in the maintenance of the right of private property, whereas conditions are such that non-possession is the normal condition of most people.
— from Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 1, March 1906 by Various

But he held the rights of private property in such case to be inviolate (U.S. v .
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 11: American Founders by John Lord

(p. 314) Men familiar with his practices were not the dupes of his artifices, and endeavoured to unmask them: but his apparent conduct was so irreproachable, that their warnings were considered as the result of personal prejudice, or unjust suspicion.
— from Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II by Fleury de Chaboulon, Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron

One idea reigns for a season, only to be displaced by another, causing constant readjustment of political parties.
— from Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic by Sidney Lewis Gulick