In painting, sculpture, and in all the formative arts—in architecture, and horticulture, so far as they are beautiful arts—the delineation is the essential thing; and here it is not what gratifies in sensation but what pleases by means of its form that is fundamental for taste.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

The use of this is to soak the intestines in, for when they issue forth from the body they immediately swell up and cannot be put back, but after being soaked in vinegar they shrink to their former size and enter the body again.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

I have married, as thou sayest rightly, a strange woman, and thou hearest what I do from myself as from one that is free, for truly I did not intend to conceal myself.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

It looked delightfully easy, and they tried it first from the floor and then from the beds, but they always went down instead of up.
— from Peter and Wendy by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

But he that is free from this disease, and calm by nature, being ignorant of many unpleasant things, may say, "Holy oblivion of all human ills, What wisdom dost thou bring!"
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

There is food for thought in this, mon ami! ”
— from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

Note 599 ( return ) [ The Mazacans were an African tribe from the deserts in the interior, famous for their spirited barbs, their powers of endurance, and their skill in throwing the dart.]
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, / Obedient passions, and a will resigned; / For love, which scarce collective man can fill; / For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill; / For faith, that, panting for a happier seat, / Counts death kind Nature's signal of retreat.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

But I couldn't bring myself to sit down to it, for fear that the too placid resumption of my duties should outrage him.
— from A Diary Without Dates by Enid Bagnold

These slender branches radiate in all directions, each also terminating in fine feathery tufts, which, being laid one over the other like scales on armour, present an almost impenetrable shield to the rays of the sun.
— from The South-West, by a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 2 by J. H. (Joseph Holt) Ingraham

There was an absence of the sparkle of fun usually seen in the Irish face, for this was a serious occasion.
— from Voyage of the Paper Canoe A Geographical Journey of 2500 miles, from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico, during the years 1874-5. by Nathaniel H. (Nathaniel Holmes) Bishop

As it is not the moral subject as a person, but only his natural character set free by affection, that confesses the truth, it follows from this that we shall not attribute this sincerity to man as a merit, and that we shall be entitled to laugh at it, our raillery not being held in check by any personal esteem for his character.
— from Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller by Friedrich Schiller

The reason given is, that leather costs more than formerly—a statement we are led to doubt when considering the increased facilities for tanning.
— from The Employments of Women: A Cyclopædia of Woman's Work by Virginia Penny

This differed more in form than in fact from the course of justice and injustice in our own time.
— from France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 by William Henry Hurlbert

She kneels on the hard-packed snow that is fast frozen to the ground.
— from The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha, the Lily of the Mohawks by Ellen H. (Ellen Hardin) Walworth

The porter, glad to take in food for the garrison, admitted the crafty Scots, whereupon they threw down their bundles in the entrance to prevent the fall of the portcullis, and, having killed the porter, blew a horn to summon their companions.
— from Stirling Castle, its place in Scottish history by Eric Stair-Kerr