Now, if it can be shown that the three kinds of transcendental ideas (psychological, cosmological, and theological), although not relating directly to any object nor determining it, do nevertheless, on the supposition of the existence of an ideal object, produce systematic unity in the laws of the empirical employment of the reason, and extend our empirical cognition, without ever being inconsistent or in opposition with it—it must be a necessary maxim of reason to regulate its procedure according to these ideas.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

His situation at the Roman court, being honourable and important, could not fail of being likewise advantageous, not only from the imperial profusion common at that time, but from many contingent emoluments which his extensive interest and patronage would naturally afford him.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Indeed, if it could succeed in proving as much as this, its success would be almost fatal to its practical claims; as the adoption of the Utilitarian principle would then become a matter of complete indifference.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

By the Madras Salt Act, 1889, it is enacted that any person who— ( a ) removes any salt without or in excess of the permits necessary by this Act; or ( b ) except for agricultural or building purposes, excavates, collects or possesses salt-earth in any local area where it is contraband salt; or [ 234 ] ( c ) manufactures contraband salt in any other way than by excavating or collecting salt-earth; or ( d ) purchases, obtains, possesses, sells or weighs contraband salt other than salt-earth, knowing or having reason to believe it to be contraband; or ( e ) refines saltpetre without such license as is prescribed by the Act; or ( f ) attempts to commit, or within the meaning of the Indian Penal Code abets the commission of any of the above acts, shall on conviction be punishable for every such offence with imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or with fine not exceeding five hundred rupees, or with both.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

It is said that, in Pontus, Cæcias attracts the clouds.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

It is true that nations make use of it in proportion as they are vivacious, and that in particular cases, amongst the Italians, for instance, it is supplemented by certain peculiar gestures which are merely conventional, and therefore possessed of nothing more than a local value.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism by Arthur Schopenhauer

Yet all rationalists have longed to demolish or to degrade some part of the substructure, like those Gothic architects who wished to hang the vaults of their churches upon the slenderest possible supports, abolishing and turning into painted crystal all the dead walls of the building.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

This made them eat the first two bushel of wheat that was sent them in parched corn, as the Israelites of old did, without grinding or making bread of it.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

According to informed press comment at the time, it was the intention of the White House to carry out the recommendation to this effect made by the President's Committee [Pg 276] on International Information Activities.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

But the annual produce of the land and labour of the country had before required only one million to circulate and distribute it to its proper consumers, and that annual produce cannot be immediately augmented by those operations of banking.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

In each of the separate trials A, B, and C, the infected plants contained about twice as much total dry matter as the plants not infected.
— from Nitrogen Bacteria and Legumes With special reference to red clover, cowpeas, soy beans, alfalfa, and sweet clover, on Illinois soils by Cyril G. (Cyril George) Hopkins

The president of the convention of 1875 said, “What is called the present constitution of the state of Alabama is a piece of unseemly mosaic, composed of shreds and patches gathered here and there, incongruous in design, inharmonious in action, discriminating and oppressive in the burdens it imposes, reckless in the license it confers on unjust and wicked legislation, and utterly lacking in every element to inspire popular confidence and the reverence and affection of the people.”
— from Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama by Walter L. (Walter Lynwood) Fleming

The image prevailed, calling attention to a splendid body and compelling features.
— from Warrior of the Dawn by Howard Browne

Till the irritated peasant Came and took us unawares; Sweet to devastate his chickens, As the ambush'd catapult Scattered, and the very dickens Was the natural result; Sweet to snare the thoughtless rabbit; Break the next-door neighbour's pane; Cultivate the smoker's habit On the not-innocuous cane; Leave the exercise unwritten; Systematically cut Morning school, to plunge the kitten In his bath, the water-butt.
— from Green Bays. Verses and Parodies by Arthur Quiller-Couch

Then, since we have somewhat weighed the virtues of prosperity, let us consider on the other hand the afore-named things that are the matter of merit and reward in tribulation—that is, patience, conformity, and thanksgiving.
— from Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens by More, Thomas, Saint

Presently he captured it, twisted the arm in the terrible hammer-lock, and broke it; then, while the Greek lay writhing in agony, Mr. O'Leary leaped to his feet and commenced to play with his awful boots a devil's tattoo on that portion of his enemy's superstructure so frequently alluded to in pugilistic circles as "the slats."
— from Kindred of the Dust by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

The various professors had taken incredible pains to teach the infant philosophers correct answers to the separate questions that would be asked them, in order that they might reply with becoming readiness.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete by Various

It frequently requires from half an hour to two hours to get them rubbed so as the blood gets to its proper circulation, and to get them to walk without dragging their legs.
— from The Mule A Treatise on the Breeding, Training, and Uses to Which He May Be Put by Harvey Riley