Those Texts that have come down to us may be classified under Four principal Types.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

And so we are able to say: Certain natural products, from the special constitution of our Understanding, must be considered by us , in regard to their possibility, as if produced designedly and as purposes.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

Truly the animal that is to be trained to unity must be caught young.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

Kunsultáha (kunsultáhi) sila ug muúyun ba, Consult them to see if they are amenable.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Let us, moreover, be careful not to overestimate the significance of the problem of abstinence with respect to its influence on neuroses.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

If it entered into my present purpose to inquire how far trial by jury (more especially in civil cases) contributes to insure the best administration of justice, I admit that its utility might be contested.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

But this untractableness may be carried too far, and may degenerate into obstinacy, perverseness, or disingenuity.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Among the various institutes of the Roman law, those of Caius were the most popular in the East and West; and their use may be considered as an evidence of their merit.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

But the rich man is anxious with fears, pining with discontent, burning with covetousness, never secure, always uneasy, panting from the perpetual strife of his enemies, adding to his patrimony indeed by these miseries to an immense degree, and by these additions also heaping up most bitter cares.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

So it's nish or knife betwixt us, my bene cove!"
— from The Entailed Hat; Or, Patty Cannon's Times by George Alfred Townsend

Such control is most irksome in church matters, wherein all, even what is in itself unimportant, must be considered as partaking of the sanctity of the whole.
— from Life of Mozart, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Otto Jahn

The remark, I repeat, was undoubtedly made by Colonel Scammans, and it is so plain that it speaks for itself.
— from The Command in the Battle of Bunker Hill With a Reply to "Remarks on Frothingham's History of the Battle, by S. Swett" by Richard Frothingham

At last, one day, after witnessing the horrible exhibition of a poor Turk having his clothing saturated with paraffine oil, and then set fire to, the captain, urged more by considerations for the safety of Tom and Charley and his men, than for his own, gave in, and told Mocatto that he would sign the draft.
— from Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson

With the apple orchard Pomona or of the Pierre, Pere, or Pater Alone, the monocle and monarch of the universe, may be connoted the far-famed paradise of Prester or Presbyter John : this mythical priest-king is rendered sometimes as Preste Cuan , sometimes as Un Khan or John King-Priest, and sometimes as Ken Khan: he was clearly a personification of the King of Kings, and his marvellous Kingdom, which streamed with honey and was overflowing with milk, was evidently none other than Paradise or the Land of Heaven.
— from Archaic England An Essay in Deciphering Prehistory from Megalithic Monuments, Earthworks, Customs, Coins, Place-names, and Faerie Superstitions by Harold Bayley

The substances used must be chemically pure, and no caustic or sharp or grating materials, such as pumice, sand, ossa sepiæ , etc., should be employed, they destroying the enamel of the teeth.
— from A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Perfumery Comprising directions for making all kinds of perfumes, sachet powders, fumigating materials, dentrifices, cosmetics, etc., etc., with a full account of the volatile oils, balsams, resins, and other natural and artificial perfume-substances, including the manufacture of fruit ethers, and tests of their purity by C. (Carl) Deite

Thus far, Fekmah hasn’t had much need of the map, because he has directed us more by compass.
— from Captured by the Arabs by James H. Foster

You know, so often, when these feminine professors of freedom talk to you how they over-emphasize the sex business—by the second quarter-hour you find yourself solemnly talking woman's complete life, rights of the unmarried mother, birth control; and after you've got away from the lady you can't for the life of you figure out how those topics ever got started, when likely as not you were thinking about your job or the war or Honus Wagner's batting slump.
— from The Trufflers: A Story by Samuel Merwin

And the rubies and diamonds and beryls of the cross as it now hung upon my breast, catching the light of the opened lantern in my left hand, shed over the features an indescribable reflex hue of quivering rose.
— from Aylwin by Theodore Watts-Dunton