For, granting that certain responsibilities lie upon us, which, as based on the ideas of reason, deserve to be respected and submitted to, although they are incapable of a real or practical application to our nature, or, in other words, would be responsibilities without motives, except upon the supposition of a Supreme Being to give effect and influence to the practical laws: in such a case we should be bound to obey our conceptions, which, although objectively insufficient, do, according to the standard of reason, preponderate over and are superior to any claims that may be advanced from any other quarter.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Hence we see (I.) that Julius Cæsar really obtained the idea of a fixed year of 365-1/4 days from the Egyptians, where it was employed for scientific or religious purposes only, whilst the incomplete year was the vulgar and common year; (II.) that he made this fixed year the common year, both among the Romans and Alexandrines, who were a people most readily disposed to adopt foreign innovations.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

The Descriptions must be certified as strictly original by a Minister, Teacher, Parent, or some other responsible person.
— from Little Folks (September 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

Give him thirty-five squares of red paper.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

In 1843 Hellik Olson Holtan with family from Flesberg in Numedal emigrated and settled on Rock Prairie.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

Four very neat and pretty young women held before the monarch a species of round pitcher, called by them Xicales, filled with water to wash his hands in.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

Into a hole at the top of the mast is fitted the end of a short rattan or cane, which is split into four branches, each of which again is split into three twigs, whilst on the end of each twig is stuck one of the coloured eggs ( tĕlor joran ), an artificial flower, and an ornamental streamer of red paper called layer , 87 which is cut into all sorts of artistic and picturesque patterns.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

[1] Cyperis , —os , —um , cypirus , variants for a sort of rush; probably “Cyprian Grass.”
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

The chief branch of the system of railways passes through an extensive tract of coal of very good quality.
— from The World and Its People, Book VII: Views in Africa by Anna B. Badlam

[99] The Bulla, generally made of gold, was a hollow globe, which boys wore upon their breast, pendant from a string or ribbon put round the neck.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 01: Julius Caesar by Suetonius

The statue was about eight inches high, and showed a man, dressed in flowing robes, seated crosslegged on a sort of raised pedestal.
— from Tom Swift in the City of Gold; Or, Marvelous Adventures Underground by Victor Appleton

THE MEN OF BUSINESS AND THEIR METHODS Meaning of equester ordo; how the capitalist came by his money; example of Atticus; incoming of wealth after Hannibalic war; suddenness of this; rise of a capitalist class; the contractors; the public contracting companies; in the age and writings of Cicero; their political influence; and power in the provinces; the bankers and money-lenders; origin of the Roman banker; nature of his business; risks of the money-lender; general indebtedness of society; Cicero's debts; story of Rabirius Postumus; mischief done by both contractors and money-lenders.
— from Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero by W. Warde (William Warde) Fowler

By John Oxenham "'The Long Road' is a tragic, heart-gripping story of Russian political and social conditions.
— from John Ermine of the Yellowstone by Frederic Remington

Jordan, son of Reginald, paid twenty marks, to have the king's request to William Paniel, that he would grant him the land of Mill Nieresult, and the custody of his heirs: and if Jordan obtained the same, he was pay the twenty marks, otherwise not.
— from The History of England, Volume I From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 by David Hume

The dirt and confusion and cruelty to animals which reigned in the region of Smithfield market, and are the subject of reiterated protests in Punch , belong to an unregretted past.
— from Mr. Punch's History of Modern England, Vol. 1 (of 4).—1841-1857 by Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves

This contract is not enforceable, because, as we shall see later, the Statute of Frauds requires every contract for the sale of real property to be in writing.
— from Commercial Law by Richard William Hill