For though a man enumerate to me all the ingredients of a dish, and remark that each is separately pleasant to me and further extol with justice the wholesomeness of this particular food—yet am I deaf to all these reasons; I try the dish with my tongue and my palate, and thereafter (and not according to universal principles) do I pass my judgement.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

El hijo de Caracas pasea su primera juventud por las plazas de las ruidosas cortes de la Europa extranjera; mientras el nativo de las Misiones gasta sus tiernos años en los campamentos de los ejércitos de un pueblo desgraciado, invadido por un usurpador injusto, y que defiende su independencia a esfuerzos de [3] patriotismo y de virtud....
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

The twenty-eighth was not much better; but the rest have been usually pleasant days in pleasant circumstances.
— from The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 1 by Robert Louis Stevenson

Upon that unimportant personal disaster I [pg x] can look back now with no little amusement; and were I to re-write these articles, I should doubtless temper both word and spirit here and there; but as my feeling at the time was sincere, natural, and justified, as there is, I believe, no over-statement of the facts that caused it, and as the articles were written without malice or the least desire to "get even"—I let them go, as written, into book form now.
— from Following the Sun-Flag: A Vain Pursuit Through Manchuria by Fox, John, Jr.

127 , traces a fine line on the paper like the worm of a screw on the surface; and it is close to this line, which serves as a guide to the eye, that the prickers make a mark each time a current is sent through the electro-magnets; this turns each of them into a magnet, and they then attract a piece of iron which, in moving upwards, presses down its pricker by means of a lever, and registers the instant the current is sent.
— from Stargazing: Past and Present by Lockyer, Norman, Sir

At the outset there was a period of undoubted prosperity, due in part to a continuation of the favoring legislation of the era of the Catholic Kings, but more particularly to the enormously increased demand resulting from the rapid and extensive colonization of the Americas, whose commerce was restricted by law to favored regions of the Spanish kingdom.
— from A History of Spain founded on the Historia de España y de la civilización española of Rafael Altamira by Rafael Altamira

Speaking of the practices of witch-finders, Webster says:—"By such wicked means and unchristian practices, divers innocent persons have lost their lives; and these wicked rogues wanted not greater persons (even of the ministry too) that did authorize and encourage them in their diabolical courses.
— from Lancashire Folk-lore Illustrative of the Superstitious Beliefs and Practices, Local Customs and Usages of the People of the County Palatine by John Harland

The loungers who were in the garden hurried to the fence, which then bordered the park on the side of the quay, in order to watch this frightful procession from this point: to see an unbridled populace dash in pieces the prescriptive royalty of ages.
— from Marie Antoinette and Her Son by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

Here we behold the Apostles, and their successors in the several ages, calling out to the nations who sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, "Arise, thou who sleep eat, and Christ will enlighten thee!"—men of God, and gifted with his power, who, by preaching peace, enduring wrongs, and pardoning injuries, subdued the power of tyrants, stopped the mouths of lions, upturned paganism, demolished idols, planted everywhere the standard of the cross, and left to us the whole world illuminated by the rays of divine truth.
— from The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. January, February, March by Alban Butler

If we take a survey of our own history, and examine it with any attention, what an unsatisfactory picture does it present to us!
— from Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third by Horace Walpole