While devoid of sympathy, she had a sufficiency of rational benevolence: she would give in the readiest manner to people she had never seen—rather, however, to classes than to individuals.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

For as soon as these pure concepts of reason (the transcendental ideas) are given, they could hardly, except they be held innate, be found anywhere else, than in the same activity of reason, which, so far as it regards mere form, constitutes the logical element of the syllogisms of reason; but, so far as it represents judgments of the understanding with respect to the one or to the other form a priori , constitutes transcendental concepts of pure reason.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

To be rid of Patsey—to place her beyond sight or reach, by sale, or death, or in any other manner, of late years, seemed to be the ruling thought and passion of my mistress.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

[412] So long as we stick to verifiable psychology, we are forced to admit that differences of simple kind form an irreducible sort of relation between some of the elements of our experience, and forced to deny that differential discrimination
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

The valley, he said, had in it all that the heart of man could desire—sweet water, pasture, and even climate, slopes of rich brown soil with tangles of a shrub that bore an excellent fruit, and on one side great hanging forests of pine that held the avalanches high.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Thus, for instance, we know from the preceding table and its first number what we must begin from in practical inquiries; namely, from the maxims which every one founds on his own inclinations; the precepts which hold for a species of rational beings so far as they agree in certain inclinations; and finally the law which holds for all without regard to their inclinations, etc.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

To gentlemen who occupy apartments, the robe de chambre , if properly selected, is of infinite advantage; for an Indian shawl or rich brocaded silk (of which this garment should only be constructed), will be found to possess extraordinary pacific properties with the landlady, when the irregularity of your remittances may have ruffled the equanimity of her temper, whilst you are INCLINED TO TAKE IT COOLLY; whereas a gray Duffield, or a cotton chintz, would be certain to induce deductions highly prejudicial to the respectability of your character, or, what is of equal importance, to the duration of your credit.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 28, 1841 by Various

This commenced a series of rows between Sumunter and myself: he had made away with the money, and could not produce it.
— from What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke

[Pg 126] Of a probably increasing series of rents; But social changes alter rental values, and so far as these changes are foreseen, these anticipated or expected rents are made the basis for present capitalization.
— from The Principles of Economics, with Applications to Practical Problems by Frank A. (Frank Albert) Fetter

The judicial and administrative authorities are required to comply with requests by these committees for information, and the record of the authorities shall on request be submitted to them.
— from And the Kaiser abdicates: The German Revolution November 1918-August 1919 by S. Miles (Stephen Miles) Bouton

He obtained large quantities of rich booty, but the inhabitants in all cases held aloof from him, their belief in the star of Rome being still unshaken in spite of the reverses which had befallen her.
— from The Young Carthaginian: A Story of The Times of Hannibal by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

The animal, faithful to its old master, showed some signs of resistance, but soon felt by the pressure of its rider’s knees that it had to do with one whom it could not readily unseat.
— from Massacres of the South (1551-1815) Celebrated Crimes by Alexandre Dumas

I know nothing; but I know from the testimony of a venerable old lady—who is not the oldest in Vienna—that the bakers’ apprentices were formerly allowed special privileges in consideration of the service once rendered by some of their body to the state.
— from A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France by William Duthie

Our earth, as it rolls thro' the regions of space, Wears always two faces, the dark and the sunny; And poor human life runs the same sort of race, Being sad on one side—on the other side, funny.
— from The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Thomas Moore