But these have themselves objective reality, that is, they apply to possible things, because they contain a priori the form of experience in general.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

‘I almost feared you thought otherwise,’ returned the schoolmaster.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

I banish myself from the theatres, such a dolt am I, and I do not admit the thymele 689 within my court except on the first day of the year, because I am too stupid to appreciate it; like some country fellow who from his small means has to pay a tax or render tribute to a harsh master.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

So matters continued until Christmas Eve, when our visitor proposed walking into Peterborough, in order to give the children a treat of raisins to make a Christmas pudding.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

Of the opinion respecting things to be feared, what they are and of what nature, which the law implants through education; and I mean by the words ‘under all circumstances’ D to intimate that in pleasure or in pain, or under the influence of desire or fear, a man preserves, and does not lose this opinion.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

And, if I'm not mistaken, I had specifically told him that on the occasion referred to I had received half a lap start and that Willie Punting, the odds-on favourite to whom the race was expected to be a gift, had been forced to retire, owing to having pinched his elder brother's machine without asking the elder brother, and the elder brother coming along just as the pistol went and giving him one on the side of the head and taking it away from him, thus rendering him a scratched-at-the-post non-starter.
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

Of late the Misses Dobbin more than once repeated their entreaties to Amelia, to allow George to visit them.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

You will pass through their bodies lulled to sleep, either in silence unnoticed by them, or ready to strike terror into them, should they perceive you, by a sudden shout.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

Here the Mother liv’d three or four Years, till what Money she had was almost gone; then she thought of returning to London , and considering that her Husband’s Mother was in some Circumstances, she did not doubt but to prevail upon her, to provide for the Child, if she could but pass it upon her for the same, but the changing a Girl into a Boy, seem’d a difficult Piece of Work, and how to deceive an experienced old Woman, in such a Point, was altogether as impossible; however, she ventured to dress it up as a Boy, brought it to Town, and presented it to her Mother in Law, as her Husband’s Son; the old Woman would have taken it, to have bred it up, but the Mother pretended it would break her Heart, to part with it; so it was agreed betwixt them, that the Child should live with the Mother, and the supposed Grandmother should allow a Crown a Week for it’s
— 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

But it is inevitably human that we shall not all agree that in a single highway is found the only road to progress, or each make the same man of all our worthy candidates his first choice.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

In August following Cromwell's departure, Waterford and Duncannon were taken by Ireton; and there only remained to the Confederates the fortresses of Sligo, Athlone, Limerick, and Galway, with the country included within the irregular quadrangle they describe.
— from A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Complete by Thomas D'Arcy McGee

Spanish navigators, too, have long lost their old renown, though the Basques are still esteemed as mariners.
— from Spain by Wentworth Webster

Cycles ferried my cradle, rowing and rowing like cheerful boatmen— For room to me, stars kept aside in their own rings, They sent influences to look after what was to hold me."
— from Cinderella Jane by Marjorie Benton Cooke

No question has, in as far as I can apprehend the subject, been so utterly misunderstood and misrepresented as the one relating to the customs and traditional laws of savage races.
— from Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 by Grey, George, Sir

If these fluids are sometimes the vehicles of disease, it is when they enter unnaturally into the system, as when the bile passes into the mass of blood, when the absorbed urine enters this fluid, &c. After all that has just been said, it is evident, that it is necessary to distinguish accurately diseases themselves, or rather the whole of the symptoms that characterize them, according to the principles that produce or support them.
— from General Anatomy, Applied to Physiology and Medicine, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Xavier Bichat

Anne, wondering what he could have to say to her, led the way past the church to the open road that encircled the island.
— from The Gorgeous Isle: A Romance; Scene-- Nevis, B.W.I. 1842 by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

ant me a word of the twilight, Of roses that mourn in the fall.
— from The Congo, and Other Poems by Vachel Lindsay

In the arduous task of revising the proofs of this book he was assisted by my son Mr. F. J. P. Richter.
— from Chantilly in History and Art by Luise Richter

And so I recognise in the Anglican Church a time-honoured institution, of noble historical memories, a monument of ancient wisdom, a momentous arm of political strength, a great national organ, a source of vast popular advantage, and, to a certain point, a witness and teacher of religious truth.
— from Apologia pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman

The Arabs of Al-Hijaz united in revolt against the Sultan, but after a few skirmishes they were reduced to subjection by their old ruler the Sharif bin Aun.
— from Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir