Further, to enable me to cast this variety of subjects somewhat into the shade, and to express my judgment regarding them with greater freedom, without being necessitated to adopt or refute the opinions of the learned, I resolved to leave all the people here to their disputes, and to speak only of what would happen in a new world, if God were now to create somewhere in the imaginary spaces matter sufficient to compose one, and were to agitate variously and confusedly the different parts of this matter, so that there resulted a chaos as disordered as the poets ever feigned, and after that did nothing more than lend his ordinary concurrence to nature, and allow her to act in accordance with the laws which he had established.
— from Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences by René Descartes

We request you, then, if you really have business here, to wait till we have finished our repast, or to come again a short time hence; unless, which would be far better, you form the salutary resolution to quit the side of the rebels, and come and drink with us to the health of the King of France.”
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

I also observed wild Tanzey on this little river in great quantities, we halted at 12 oClock and eate a part of a fat Buck, after Dinner we assended the Plain at which time it began to rain and Continued all day, at 5 oClock we arrived at our Camp on the point, where I expected to meet Capt Lewis-
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

The wind blew hard from the S. E. which with the addition of the flood tide raised verry high waves which broke with great violence against the Shore throwing water into our Camp—the fore part of this day Cloudy at 12 oClock it began to rain and Continud all day moderately, Several Indians Visit us to day of differant nations or Bands Some of the Chiltz Nation who reside on the Sea Coast near Point Lewis, Several of the Clotsops who reside on the opposit Side of the Columbia imediately opposit to us, and a Chief from the Grand rapid to whome we gave a Medal.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Let me be permitted on this occasion to make one more remark, namely, that every step that we make with pure reason, even in the practical sphere where no attention is paid to subtle speculation, nevertheless accords with all the material points of the Critique of the Theoretical Reason as closely and directly as if each step had been thought out with deliberate purpose to establish this confirmation.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

Shall we yet see the scene of Brumaire 1793 repeated and a procession of prelates presenting themselves at Westminster to lay down their rings and crosses and declare that "henceforth there shall be no other worship than that of liberty and holy equality"?
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

It is beautiful, the feeling which works this enchantment, and it compels one’s homage; compels it, and also compels one’s assent—compels it always—even when, as happens sometimes, one does not see the resemblances as clearly as does the exile who is pointing them out.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

“What for the meal, dear heart?” “For the inside of my mouth,” said the Carl, “for the recesses and crannies and deep-down profundities of my stomach.
— from Irish Fairy Tales by James Stephens

He was afterwards one of the three chief merchants of the Royal African Company, and died in 1735 “at Whydah, on the coast of Africa.”
— from A Cruising Voyage Around the World by Woodes Rogers

The whole populace climbed up on the rocks and crawled about, drenched to the skin, and little by little disappeared.
— from In the Courts of Memory, 1858-1875; from Contemporary Letters by L. de (Lillie de) Hegermann-Lindencrone

Prominent among them was Coluccio Salutati, who for many years served the Republic as Chancellor and died in 1406.
— from The Story of Florence by Edmund G. Gardner

As the dangerous symptoms increased, she redoubled her speed, hoping at least to reach Alnwick castle, and die in her husband’s arms.
— from Heroines of the Crusades by C. A. (Celestia Angenette) Bloss

At the conclusion of the previous section allusion was made to retinues as constituting a danger to the industrious members of the body politic.
— from The Customs of Old England by F. J. (Frederick John) Snell

They are American citizens, in the exercise of their undoubted right of citizenship; and however erroneous their views, however fanatic their conduct, while they act within the limits of the law, what official functionary, be he merely a subordinate or the head of the post-office department, shall dare to abridge them of their rights as citizens, and deny them those facilities of intercourse which were instituted for the equal accommodation of all?
— from Old Portraits and Modern Sketches Part 1 from Volume VI of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier

Knowing well that a defeat at that moment would be to England irreparable ruin, they did not dream that Rodney would be allowed, even if he wished it, to risk a close and decisive engagement.
— from The English in the West Indies; Or, The Bow of Ulysses by James Anthony Froude