In the above-mentioned case, the representation of things, because it is something in ourselves, can be quite well thought a priori as suitable and useful for the internally purposive determination of our cognitive faculties; but that purposes, which neither are our own nor belong to nature (for we do not regard nature as an intelligent 260 being), could or should constitute a particular kind of causality, at least a quite special conformity to law,—this we have absolutely no a priori reason for presuming.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

In the face of the ideal, particular demands forfeit their authority and the goods to which a particular being may aspire cease to be absolute; nay, the satisfaction of desire comes to appear an indifferent or unholy thing when compared or opposed to the ideal to be realised.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

One would not have been surprised if this argument had been used by the friends of the proposition, as an answer to its principal difficulty.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

It appears in the most terrible forms, such as glandular tuberculosis, which turns into purulent dissolution."
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

A few verbs are deponent in the present system only: as, dēvortor , turn in , perfect dēvortī ; revortor , turn back , perfect revortī , but with active perfect participle revorsus .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

2 = úngud , a . pina- n action that is prolonged, done without letting go.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The time is precious, Doctor!
— from The Bet, and other stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

For thee, if passioning Doth comfort thee, on, passion to thy fill!
— from Oedipus King of Thebes Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes by Sophocles

In fine, abating from treachery, hatred, dangers, fear, and a thousand other mischiefs impending on crowned heads, however uncontrollable they are this side heaven, yet after their reign here they must appear before a supremer judge, and there be called to an exact account for the discharge of that great stewardship which was committed to their trust If princes did but seriously consider (and consider they would if they were but wise) these many hardships of a royal life, they would be so perplexed in the result of their thoughts thereupon, as scarce to eat or sleep in quiet But now by my assistance they leave all these cares to the gods, and mind only their own ease and pleasure, and therefore will admit none to their attendance but who will divert them with sport and mirth, lest they should otherwise be seized and damped with the surprisal of sober thoughts.
— from In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts by Desiderius Erasmus

And yet this should hardly have been so, since the theory of the chimney was, that it pyramidically diminished as it ascended.
— from The Apple-Tree Table, and Other Sketches by Herman Melville

Gently o’er thee (Inward Peace) Dated 1889.
— from American Unitarian Hymn Writers and Hymns by Henry Wilder Foote

When the bottom of the porous vessel gets above the jets, the internal diffusion ceases and the hydrogen becomes diffused externally, the internal pressure diminishes, and the vessel descends.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 443, June 28, 1884 by Various

In the Italian houses a handful of them is put down to each cover at the dinner-table.
— from The South of France—East Half by C. B. Black

The Italian Pavilion does not attempt to reproduce any one architectural masterpiece.
— from The Jewel City by Ben Macomber

My host, Dr. George Weber, tells me that his manual of history is translated into Polish, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, and French, and that of his great “Uni
— from Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel by Henri Frédéric Amiel

In looking over the list of British colonies where it is established, we may find here and there a diminution in the amount of opium consumed, but this is probably due to the exigencies of war, to the lack of shipping and transportation, rather than to any conscientious scruples or moral turnover; because the revenue derived from the opium trade is precious.
— from The Opium Monopoly by Ellen N. (Ellen Newbold) La Motte

The Rajah was at the time in pecuniary difficulties—so much so, as to have serious notions of coming to London and taking a crossing, or singing Hindostanee lyrics, with a tum-tum and his heir-apparent, in the streets.
— from The Comic Almanack, Volume 2 (of 2) An Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest, Containing Merry Tales, Humerous Poetry, Quips, and Oddities by Gilbert Abbott À Beckett