But even if this could be done, how can I number among the products of nature things which are definitely accounted products of divine art, when it is just the incapacity of nature to produce such things according to its own laws that made it necessary to invoke a cause different from it?
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

Miss Pinkerton's attachment was, as may be supposed from the high position and eminent virtues of that lady, calm and dignified; but Miss Jemima had already whimpered several times at the idea of Amelia's departure; and, but for fear of her sister, would have gone off in downright hysterics, like the heiress (who paid double) of St. Kitt's.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

The skill to renovate the powers of pleasing is said, indeed, to be {236} possessed by some women in an eminent degree, but the artifices of maturity are seldom seen to adorn the innocence of youth.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

"Uncle likes to try me by saying such things, and this is one reason why I want to go away before I get sharp and bitter and distrustful as he is.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

I was positively against that; and looking over the charts of the sea-coast of America with him, we concluded there was no inhabited country for us to have recourse to till we came within the circle of the Caribbee Islands, and therefore resolved to stand away for Barbadoes; which, by keeping off at sea, to avoid the indraft of the Bay or Gulf of Mexico, we might easily perform, as we hoped, in about fifteen days’ sail; whereas we could not possibly make our voyage to the coast of Africa without some assistance both to our ship and to ourselves.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

There can also be little doubt that the tendency to vary in the same manner has often been so strong that all the individuals of the same species have been similarly modified without the aid of any form of selection.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

As regards the well which served to ascertain the instant of the solstice, Pliny and Arrian both mention it.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

It may well be supposed that after the impression our new governess had made upon us, we were very attentive for some time.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

It is pretty safe to say that all the ideas of the Tiyans connected with pure Hinduism—the Hinduism of the Vēdas—and of tradition, of which we see very little in Southern India, and which in Malabar is more perverted in confused ideas than perhaps elsewhere, those relating to re-birth, karma, pilgrimages to Benares and distant temples are borrowed from the Brāhmans.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

When Mrs. Vanneck asked for communicating rooms, the landlady said, 'Oh, no , Madam, we've no such things as that in our house!'
— from The Heather-Moon by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

The façade is flanked at its angles by two tall, slender, square towers; and the intersection of the nave and transept is covered by one of those elegant octagonal domes which the Italians knew so well how to use, and which is in fact the only original feature in their designs.
— from A History of Architecture in all Countries, Volume 1, 3rd ed. From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by James Fergusson

Do you see him shot through and through, instead of being worked off like a Briton!
— from Scenes and Characters from the Works of Charles Dickens Being Eight Hundred and Sixty-six Pictures Printed from the Original Wood Blocks by Charles Dickens

"All I can say, Florestan, is, that I did not see them among the injured or dying.
— from A Cardinal Sin by Eugène Sue

They brought a warrant from the Secretary of State to arrest the Irish orator, as a leader of the late Rebellion returned from transportation, on his own authority.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 by Various

Jim found himself amongst a group of the boys, and each and all of them were striving to ascertain the identity of those who were in charge.
— from The One-Way Trail: A story of the cattle country by Ridgwell Cullum

His bold and sincere spirit instantly compared the doctrines which were now submitted to him, with those in the belief of which he had been bred; and enlightened by the comparison, was not slow to acknowledge the inferiority of Judaism.
— from The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh; and the Irish Sketch Book by William Makepeace Thackeray

Paul understood, and was never slow to affirm, the indebtedness of the young Christian Churches to himself: he was their father, and without him they would not have existed.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The First Epistle to the Corinthians by Marcus Dods

He had suddenly seen a chance to retrieve recent bad fortune by hiring the Kinetophone outright at the conto for two nights which I had set as the fixed price for small towns and taking it out to his old stamping-ground of Amparo, where he proposed to enlist the services of his bosom companions, the priests, nuns, and other Biblical influences of the town, into selling tickets beforehand on the church-festival plan.
— from Working North from Patagonia Being the Narrative of a Journey, Earned on the Way, Through Southern and Eastern South America by Harry Alverson Franck