But among the principles of this universal physics there are a few which actually have the required universality; for instance, the propositions that "substance is permanent," and that "every event is determined by a cause according to constant laws," etc.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

As they gradually rose from the level of the valleys, the thick darkness which usually precedes the approach of day began to disperse, and objects were seen in the plain and palpable colors with which they had been gifted by nature.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

But none of these things could deter Nehemiah from being diligent about the work; he only set a number of men about him as a guard to his body, and so unweariedly persevered therein, and was insensible of any trouble, out of his desire to perfect this work.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

There are as many elixirs of every kind as there are caprices and peculiarities in the physical and moral nature of humanity; and I will say further—the art of these chemists is capable with the utmost precision to accommodate and proportion the remedy and the bane to yearnings for love or desires for vengeance.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Her thoughts were the same as they had been the night before, useless, persistent thoughts, always alike, of how Andrey Andreitch had begun courting her and had made her an offer, how she had accepted him and then little by little had come to appreciate the kindly, intelligent man.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

[5291] Hospita Demophoon tua te Rodopheia Phillis, Ultra promissum tempus abesse queror.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

-un a urging people to act against their best interest.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

It was at this blackness that the unions pointed the accusing finger.
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

[78] During the Roman occupation large embankments had been built, and during the Middle Ages these had been kept up partly through a commission appointed by the Crown, and partly through the efforts of [lx] the monasteries at Ramsey and Crowland.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

We may also speak here of his gratitude towards his parents, and his beneficence to his brothers, and his gentleness to his servants (as is plain from his will, and from the fact too, that they united with him in his philosophical studies, and the most eminent of them was the one whom I have mentioned already, named Mus); and his universal philanthropy towards all men.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

Young with the central part of the feathers greyish-brown, the edges yellowish-grey, the upper parts thus appearing spotted, the lower streaked with dusky.
— from A Synopsis of the Birds of North America by John James Audubon

The terms aqua fortis and aqua regia had come into use prior to Agricola, but he does not use them; the Alchemists used various terms, often aqua dissolvia .
— from De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georg Agricola

These contain usually nitro-cellulose (gun cotton), or nitro-glycerine, or both, made up into a plastic, coherent, and homogeneous compound of a gluey nature, and fashioned into horn-like sticks or rods by being forced under pressure through a die plate having small holes, through which the plastic material is strained into strings like macaroni, or else is molded into tablets, pellets, or grains of cubical shape.
— from The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century. by Edward W. (Edward Wright) Byrn

We need not accept all he did, or give unstinted praise to all his work, but his scheme is consistent in every portion of his thought, and his point of view will determine the place he shall fill in art and life.
— from A Persian Pearl, and Other Essays by Clarence Darrow

The adhesions of these tumours are in general very slight and easily broken up, but when seated amongst tendons, or in unyielding parts, they are often extremely firm.
— from Elements of Surgery by Robert Liston

In the treatment of the difficult Chinese problems Japan has acted in harmonious concert with the other powers, and her generous cooperation materially aided in the joint relief of the beleaguered legations in Peking and in bringing about an understanding preliminary to a settlement of the issues between the powers and China.
— from A Supplement to A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents by William McKinley

Really, I was almost convinced that I had still the very a-b-abs of my business yet to learn, that I was rash and headstrong and all puffed up with strange, unseemly vanity; but just as I was sinking back to that "old-slipper" state of mind desired, a letter came from the well-known, thoroughly established actor-manager, Mr. Barney Macaulay, who offered me the leading business at Wood's Museum, Cincinnati, O. The salary was very small, but I understood perfectly that any manager would offer as small a salary to any actress whose first season it was as leading woman.
— from Life on the Stage: My Personal Experiences and Recollections by Clara Morris

However, after a little ebullition of anger, he regained his usual philosophic tone, and, reminding Gertrude that he need not be away from England for more than a fortnight, he took leave of her and set off in a prompt, manly fashion, leaving most of his belongings at Ivy Cottage, which was his for another six weeks, and to which he hoped shortly to return.
— from The Autobiography of a Slander by Edna Lyall

She reminded me of those happy days when the three of us played together and took turns and I didn’t have to choose between them.
— from The Trail of the Green Doll A Judy Bolton Mystery by Margaret Sutton