But certainly are not disposed in such a manner, as is necessary to convey the idea of space or the idea of space or extension.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

We are thereby kept from using reason as an attribute for the purpose of conceiving God, but instead of conceiving the world in such a manner as is necessary to have the greatest possible use of reason according to principle.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

For their books are fraught with prolix fables, of the heaven, and stars, sun, and moon, and I now no longer thought him able satisfactorily to decide what I much desired, whether, on comparison of these things with the calculations I had elsewhere read, the account given in the books of Manichaeus were preferable, or at least as good.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

, quantum sufficit , as much as is needful.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

Our deplorable condition, which kept up the constant apprehension of our perishing in the ice, brought me gradually to think of eternity in such a manner as I never had done before.
— from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself by Olaudah Equiano

A systematized anæsthesia means an insensibility, not to any one element of things, but to some one concrete thing or class of things.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Pray what pretensions of any kind do you think you have to such a match as is now offered you?' 'Not any whatever, Madam,' replied Emily, 'and, therefore, at least, suffer me to be happy in my humility.' 'Nay, niece, it cannot be denied, that you have pride enough; my poor brother, your father, had his share of pride too; though, let me add, his fortune did not justify it.' Emily, somewhat embarrassed by the indignation, which this malevolent allusion to her father excited, and by the difficulty of rendering her answer as temperate as it should be reprehensive, hesitated for some moments, in a confusion, which highly gratified her aunt.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Soon after my arrival in New Bedford, from the south, I had a strong desire to attend the Lyceum, but was told, “ They don’t allow niggers in here !”
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

Soon after my arrival in New Bedford, I was told the following story, which was said to illustrate the spirit of the colored people in that goodly town: A colored man and a fugitive slave happened to have a little quarrel, and the former was heard to threaten the latter with informing his master of his whereabouts.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

The two boys separated and moved away in nearly opposite directions, their feelings being as widely different as the courses they were pursuing.
— from Guy Harris, the Runaway by Harry Castlemon

If you please, we will not say any more about it now; I want to think it all over, and my head aches sadly.
— from A Search For A Secret: A Novel. Vol. 2 by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

But we will not say any more about it now, dear."
— from Wreaths of Friendship: A Gift for the Young by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

Now this high prelate was such a man as I never met the like of, and his goodly face, beardless indeed, but of a manly brown, with its piercing, great eyes, I weened was as a magic book, having the power to compel others, even against their will, to put forth all that was in them of grace and good gifts.
— from Margery (Gred): A Tale Of Old Nuremberg — Volume 06 by Georg Ebers

I do not imagine that he has any dislike to liquor, and if he had fallen into company where the person who drank the most met with the most approbation, I have no doubt, but that he would have endeavoured to gain the applause of those with whom he associated; but, fortunately for him, he perceived that drinking was very little in use but among inferior people, and as he was very watchful into the manners and conduct of the persons of rank who honoured him with their protection, he was sober and modest, and I never heard that, during the whole time of his stay in England, which was two years, he ever once was disguised with wine, or ever shewed an inclination to go beyond the strictest rules of moderation.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14 by Robert Kerr

When this coxcomb had done reading them, "Heyday!" says he, "what instrument is this that Flavia employs in such a manner as is not to be told, nor safely seen?
— from The Tatler, Volume 4 by Steele, Richard, Sir

“N–no, Jem; but—but somehow— There, don’t say any more about it now.”
— from The Adventures of Don Lavington: Nolens Volens by George Manville Fenn

and also that it would be of "ill consequence" to the nation, for the young King to govern, with his mother for Regent, and all her family, who were persons of "no high descent" occupying the most important positions, and have more share in the government than the King's relations and the other persons who were of the "very highest quality" in the kingdom, and so,— "for these reasons I thought it to be for the public welfare, and my private advantage to side with the Duke of Gloucester, whom I took to be as sincere and merciful, as I now find him to be false and cruel.
— from The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by W. H. Hamilton (William Henry Hamilton) Rogers