The idea is merely to be adopted as a point of view, from which this unity, so essential to reason and so beneficial to the understanding, may be regarded as radiating.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Union men became rampant, aggressive, and, if you will, intolerant.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

But the very looks of you are unsettling," Mrs. Bagnet rejoins.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

So it is that, one thing with another, I fancy men as often commend as undervalue me beyond reason; as, methinks also, from my childhood, in rank and degree of honour, they have given me a place rather above than below my right.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Pages 44 - 67 CHAPTER V SPEECH AND SIGNIFICATION Sounds well fitted to be symbols.—Language has a structure independent of things.—Words, remaining identical, serve to identify things that change.—Language the dialectical garment of facts.—Words are wise men's counters.—Nominalism right in psychology and realism in logic.—Literature moves between the extremes of music and denotation.—Sound and object, in their sensuous presence, may have affinity.—Syntax positively representative.—Yet it vitiates what it represents.—Difficulty in subduing a living medium.—Language foreshortens experience.—It is a perpetual mythology.—It may be apt or inapt, with equal richness.—Absolute language a possible but foolish art Pages 68 - 86 CHAPTER VI POETRY AND PROSE Force of primary expressions.—Its exclusiveness and narrowness.—Rudimentary poetry an incantation or charm.—Inspiration irresponsible.—Plato's discriminating view.—Explosive and pregnant expression.—Natural history of inspiration.—Expressions to be understood must be recreated, and so changed.—Expressions may be recast perversely, humourously, or sublimely.—The nature of prose.—It is more advanced and responsible than poetry.—Maturity brings love of practical truth.—Pure prose would tend to efface itself.—Form alone, or substance alone, may be poetical.—Poetry has its place in the medium.—It is the best medium possible.—Might it not convey what it is best to know?—A rational poetry would exclude much now thought poetical.—All apperception modifies its object.—Reason has its own bias and method.—Rational poetry would envelop exact knowledge in ultimate emotions.—An illustration.—Volume can be found in scope better than in suggestion Pages 87 - 115
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

“And now, Monsieur du Verger,” he said, “shut yourself up with this man until Monsieur Bernouin returns to open the door.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

We are to understand by the truly honourable that which, setting aside all consideration of utility, may be rightly praised in itself, exclusive of any prospect of reward or compensation.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

For in the world of sense, that is, in space and time, every condition which we discover in our investigation of phenomena is itself conditioned; because sensuous objects are not things in themselves (in which case an absolutely unconditioned might be reached in the progress of cognition), but are merely empirical representations the conditions of which must always be found in intuition.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

"I do not deny," answered Don Quixote, "that what has befallen us may be risible, but it is not proper to be repeated; for all persons have not the sense to see things in their right point of view."
— from The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

And he flung himself down on the grass and wept, and said to himself, ‘Surely this has come upon me by reason of my sin.
— from A House of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde

Advancing mentally, he might have supposed that the store still remaining underground might be recovered, and then the entire fabric of plan, with its directions, would have been the final stage in this fantastic progress.
— from Pabo, the Priest: A Novel by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

With my best wishes that your residence among us may be rendered entirely agreeable, and be accompanied with the blessing of health, accept the assurances of my great respect and consideration.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 5 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

Heinsius || 20 leuis] lenis H || 21 aut age] eia age 'uterque Medonii [=Bodleianus Rawl G 105, 106] pro diuersa lectione', probante Heinsio || aliquam quae
— from The Last Poems of Ovid by Ovid

He used to amuse us much by relating the system of self-laudation and encouragement that kept the Evangelicals interested in each other.
— from Life of Father Ignatius of St. Paul, Passionist (The Hon. & Rev. George Spencer). by Pius a Sp. Sancto (Pius a Spiritu Sancto)

Unnamed upper member Brick red, reddish-brown, and brown mudstone and sandstone, and some conglomerate and gypsum.
— from The Geologic Story of Canyonlands National Park by Stanley William Lohman

The death benefit of the International Typographical Union may be regarded as the simplest type.
— from Beneficiary Features of American Trade Unions by James Boyd Kennedy