For let us assume at the outset (as Hume in his dialogues makes Philo grant Cleanthes), as a necessary hypothesis, the deistical concept of the First Being, in which this Being is thought by the mere ontological predicates of substance, of cause, etc.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

I imagined his respect to me increased after this inquiry; therefore to captivate his esteem the more, I told him, I would show him a seal of composition, engraved after a very valuable antique; upon which I pulled out my watch with a rich gold chain, adorned with three seals set in gold, and an opal ring.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

When Galilei experimented with balls of a definite weight on the inclined plane, when Torricelli caused the air to sustain a weight which he had calculated beforehand to be equal to that of a definite column of water, or when Stahl, at a later period, converted metals into lime, and reconverted lime into metal, by the addition and subtraction of certain elements; [Footnote: I do not here follow with exactness the history of the experimental method, of which, indeed, the first steps are involved in some obscurity.]
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

And so on Christmas Eve Jurgis worked till nearly one o'clock in the morning, and on Christmas Day he was on the killing bed at seven o'clock.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

The Educational scheme or Course established by Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt may be resolved into the following synopsis.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

This sharpness and violence of desires more hinder than they advance the execution of what we undertake; fill us with impatience against slow or contrary events, and with heat and suspicion against those with whom we have to do.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

As they were, like some other committees, extremely dull and prolix in debate, this history may pursue the footsteps of Newman Noggs; thereby combining advantage with necessity; for it would have been necessary to do so under any circumstances, and necessity has no law, as all the world knows.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

how rapidly they lower the water-mark on the sides of the trough, till their capacious stomachs are moistened with a gallon or two apiece and they can afford time to breathe it in with sighs of calm enjoyment.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Sweden and Denmark were at this time in a state of constant enmity, and were to be found on opposite sides in the quarrels that prevailed.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

No tear, or sound of complaint escaped him; but the unsettled look, and disordered haste with which he paced up and down the yard, denoted the fever which was burning within.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

For these reasons, among others, there is a special need, as it seems to us, for a systematic study of Christian Ethics on the part of those who are to be the leaders of thought and the teachers of the people.
— from Christianity and Ethics: A Handbook of Christian Ethics by Archibald B. D. (Archibald Browning Drysdale) Alexander

They styled those who had been burnt to death, coalmen; the hanged, the murdered, the drowned, the bodies that had been stabbed or crushed, excited their jeering vivacity, and their voices, which slightly trembled, stammered out comical sentences amid the shuddering silence of the hall.
— from Theresa Raquin by Émile Zola

The time was about a month before the entrance of Roumania into the war, and though, honestly, I had seen already the shadow of coming events I could not permit my misgivings to enter into and destroy the structure of my plan.
— from Notes on Life & Letters by Joseph Conrad

Cut out clever phrases if they are inserted to the sacrifice of clear explanations— write copy as you talk .
— from The Clock that Had no Hands And Nineteen Other Essays About Advertising by Herbert Kaufman

“We've been ridin' trail for twelve weeks,” the cow-puncher continued, “makin' our beds down anywheres, and eatin' the same old chuck every day.
— from Lin McLean by Owen Wister

Atlanta, Ga. --"We send you $1 as an offering of the Junior Society of Christian Endeavor of Storrs School.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 50, No. 04, April, 1896 by Various