The advantages which the world has derived from the teachings of pure reason are not at all impaired.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

She had never known temptation, or thought of preparing resistance against it.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

The Storm just spoken of, was found to have done incredible Damage in those Parts of the World; but however, it appear’d to have been more violent at Jamaica , both to the Island and Shipping, there was such a prodigious Swell of the Sea, that several hundred Tuns of Stones and Rocks, were thrown over the Wall of the Town of Port Royal , and the Town it self was overflowed, and above half destroy’d, there being the next Morning five Foot Water from one End to the other; the Cannon of Fort Charles were dismounted, and some washed into the Sea, and four hundred People lost their Lives; a more melancholly Sight was scarce ever seen when the Water ebb’d away, all the Streets being covered with Ruins of Houses, Wrecks of Vessels, and a great Number of dead Bodies, for forty Sail of Ships, in the Harbour, were cast away.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

As for the rest, they were part of them taken captives, and the other part ran away to their own country.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

For the idea that Christ stands upon the altar and mingles still with our human flesh is an explicit assertion that his influence and love are perpetual; whereas the original parable revealed at most the wish and aspiration, contrary to fact, that they might have been so.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

During a storm at sea, on his voyage to America, the other passengers ran about the deck in despair, expecting every minute to go down; but young Astor went below and coolly put on his best suit of clothes, saying that if the ship should founder and he should happen to be rescued, he would at least save his best suit of clothes.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

It must also be allowed possible, to conceive the annihilation of any part of matter by the omnipotence of the deity, while the other parts remain at rest.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

New advances were made; but while the envoys were still in the camp of Louis, the populace and the Orange party rose, and with them the spirit of resistance.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Here within touch of Plymouth Rock and Bunker Hill— WHERE WEBSTER THUNDERED and Longfellow sang, Emerson thought AND CHANNING PREACHED—HERE IN THE CRADLE OF AMERICAN LETTERS and almost of American liberty, I hasten to make the obeisance that every American owes New England when first he stands uncovered in her mighty presence.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

The American army and navy traditions of public relations are based on the ideas that the news should be as complete as military security may permit, that it should be delivered speedily and interestingly, that it should enhance the confidence of the people in their armed services, and that its tenor (no less than its contents) should not aid the enemy morale.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

These other possible relations are temptations.
— from Practical Ethics by William De Witt Hyde

The fur trade of Port Royal at this time was controlled by a family ring of La Tours and Charnisays, descendants of the ancient foes; and they lived a life of reckless gayety, spiced with all the excitement of war and privateering and matrimonial intrigue.
— from Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom by Agnes C. Laut

For three-and-forty years he had applied his intuitions and his patience to the task of producing rams and ewes such as the world had never seen.
— from Mad Shepherds, and Other Human Studies by L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall) Jacks

That of Pichupichu reaches a height of 17,355 Par.
— from Volcanoes: Past and Present by Edward Hull

But here in a single day, perhaps in a moment with one discharge from a battery, all the little things that one family cared for, their house, their garden; and the garden paths, and then the village and the road through the village, and the old landmarks that the old people remembered, and countless treasured things, were all turned into rubbish.
— from Unhappy Far-Off Things by Lord Dunsany

Cut off the meat from each side of the bone in the second joint and leg, as these when large are more than one person requires, and it is inconvenient to have so large bones on one's plate.
— from Carving and Serving by Mary J. (Mary Johnson) Lincoln

This night let each Numantian bosom swell With ardour suited to our past renown, And let our actions match our purpose well; Let us with might the hostile wall break down, And on the field die fighting with the foe, And not like cowards in this straitened town.
— from Numantia by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra