When we say that our knowledge of an object is indefinite, we mean that we partly know its characteristics, and are partly ignorant of them.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

This is equivalent to saying: “The world of sense has no absolute quantity, but the empirical regress (through which alone the world of sense is presented to us on the side of its conditions) rests upon a rule, which requires it to proceed from every member of the series, as conditioned, to one still more remote (whether through personal experience, or by means of history, or the chain of cause and effect), and not to cease at any point in this extension of the possible empirical employment of the understanding.”
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Meiggs invited me to go with him to a rich mercantile house on Clay Street, whose partners belonged in Hamburg, and there, in the presence of the principals of the house, he demonstrated, as clearly as a proposition in mathematics, that his business at Mendocino was based on calculations that could not fail.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Laevsky has come as a pioneer in that line; he lives with another man’s wife openly. . . .
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Seeing the trees fall so fast, I had the curiosity to look at my watch when two men began to cut at a pine; in six minutes they had it upon the ground, and I found it of fourteen inches diameter.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

And is not the Church itself the Catholic madhouse as an ultimate [Pg 203] ideal?—The earth as a whole converted into a madhouse?—The kind of religious man which the Church aims at producing is a typical decadent The moment of time at which a religious crisis attains the ascendancy over a people, is always characterised by nerve-epidemics; the "inner world" of the religious man is ridiculously like the "inner world" of over-irritable and exhausted people; the "highest" states which Christianity holds up to mankind as the value of values, are epileptic in character,—the Church has pronounced only madmen or great swindlers in majorem dei honorem holy.
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

But, unfortunately for his credit as a prophet, it never suffered such a calamity.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

kurac-i , to treat for illness, cure; —ato , a patient; —isto , a physician, medical man.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

Note 94 ( return ) [ See the lives of Claudius, Aurelian, and Probus, in the Augustan History.
— 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

Few briefs would be so precise as this one, for with experience a speaker learns to use little tricks to attract his eye—he may underscore a catch-word heavily, draw a red circle around a pivotal idea, enclose the key-word of an anecdote in a wavy-lined box, and so on indefinitely.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

On the Saturday before her first communion as a Presbyterian, it was evident that the church would be too small on the following Lord’s-day.
— from Model Women by William Anderson

About Conkling as a politician I have nothing to say.
— from T. De Witt Talmage as I Knew Him by Eleanor McCutcheon Talmage

Indeed, I regard that as the least convenient and appropriate place in the whole church for them.
— from Stones of the Temple; Or, Lessons from the Fabric and Furniture of the Church by Walter Field

The author of the “Sermons to Asses” appeared as such an opponent of coercion and arbitrary power in church and state, an upholder of human rights; hence, possibly, the authorship of this book was attributed to Sterne by something the same process as that which, in the age of heroic deeds, associated a miscellaneous collection of performances with a popular hero.
— from Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century by Harvey W. (Harvey Waterman) Hewett-Thayer

“So you've run off,” he continued, after a pause, “I like your spunk,—just what I should have done myself.
— from Paul Prescott's Charge by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

Among the staff there was an old librarian who often came and asked Pelle if there were anything he could help him with.
— from Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 04 by Martin Andersen Nexø

And also in the Bois, one is not considered at all ‘pschutt’ in the morning unless habittee par ce tailleur celebre.”
— from John Bull's Womankind (Les Filles de John Bull) by Max O'Rell

She continued after a pause— “I left him then.
— from The Moon Rock by Arthur J. (Arthur John) Rees

In November we find: tobacco, four bottles of brandy, sixty bottles of wine, thirty bottles of beer, two pounds of coffee, three pounds of sugar, a turkey, oysters, chestnuts, apples, and pears; in March: tobacco, four bottles of brandy, forty-four bottles of wine, sixty bottles of beer, coffee, sugar, fowls, cheese; in May: tobacco, four bottles of brandy, sixty-two bottles of wine, thirty-one bottles of beer, pigeons, coffee, sugar, cheese, &c.
— from Legends of the Bastille by Frantz Funck-Brentano