As regards the hope of a future life, if instead of the final purpose we have to accomplish in conformity with the precept of the moral law, we ask of our theoretical faculty of cognition a clue for the judgement of Reason upon our destination (which clue is only considered as necessary or worthy of acceptance in a practical reference), then in this aspect Psychology, like Theology, gives no more than a negative concept of our thinking being.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

The emperor was satisfied that the peace of Egypt would be secured by the absence of a popular leader; but he refused to fill the vacancy of the archiepiscopal throne; and the sentence, which, after long hesitation, he pronounced, was that of a jealous ostracism, rather than of an ignominious exile.
— 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 when part of the Jews of reputation opposed them, they slew some of them, and with the others they were very pressing in their exhortations to revolt from the Romans; but when the principal men of the senate saw what madness they were come to, they thought it no longer safe for themselves to overlook them.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

[Drinks water] Just now a young man in the train was saying that some great philosopher advises us all to jump off roofs.
— from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

By bringing jealousy into play, he had caused the truth to burst forth in wrath, he had educed the justice of revenge.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

True is, me also he hath judged, or rather Me not, but the brute serpent in whose shape Man I deceived: that which to me belongs, Is enmity which he will put between Me and mankind; I am to bruise his heel; His seed, when is not set, shall bruise my head: A world who would not purchase with a bruise, Or much more grievous pain?—Ye have the account Of my performance: What remains, ye Gods, But up, and enter now into full bliss?
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

The inclusion of the judgment of Rhadamanthys (frag.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

Now, if we suppose a case, in which a Mason was accused before his lodge of having committed an offense, at a certain time and place, and, by the testimony of one or two disinterested persons, he could establish what the law calls an alibi , that is, that at that very time he was at a far-distant place, and could not, therefore, have committed the offense charged against him, we ask with what show of justice or reason could such testimony be rejected, simply because the parties giving it were not Masons?
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

Maritime struggle transferred from the continent to West Indies 468 De Grasse sails for the islands 469 French expedition against the island of St. Christopher, January, 1782 469 Hood attempts to relieve the garrison 470 Manœuvres of the two fleets 471 Action between De Grasse and Hood 472 Hood seizes the anchorage left by De Grasse 473 De Grasse attacks Hood at his anchorage 474 Hood maintains his position 475 Surrender of the garrison and island 475 Merits of Hood's action 476 Criticism upon De Grasse's conduct 477 Rodney arrives in West Indies from England 479 Junction of Rodney and Hood at Antigua 479 De Grasse returns to Martinique 479 Allied plans to capture Jamaica 479 Rodney takes his station at Sta.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

506, 507, 518 f., 526; Howitt, Nat. Tr. , p. 449, 461, 469; Mathews, in J. of R.S. of N.S. Wales , XXXVIII, p. 274; Schulze, loc.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

It is a thankless task to try to explain a joke, but some of the fun in these jolly old rhymes depends upon facts that are not generally known or that may have been forgotten.
— from Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10: The Guide by Charles Herbert Sylvester

See also 'Journal of R. Geograph.
— from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication by Charles Darwin

The numeral "ten," in the Japanese, or rather Chinese name of this diversion, does not refer to ten kinds, but only to ten packages of incense; for Jitchu-ko, besides being the most amusing, is the very simplest of incense-games, and is played with only four kinds of incense.
— from In Ghostly Japan by Lafcadio Hearn

Compare an instructive passage in Darwin's Journal of Researches , p. 421, with Burdach , Traité de Physiologie comme Science d'Observation , vol.
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 1 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle

She cut him with a butcher knife—stuck him just once right through the heart.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 6 by United States. Work Projects Administration

These vary —(1) The joy of realization, which is sometimes overpowering in its intensity, at other times like the ebbing tide.
— from Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. by F. B. (Frederick Brotherton) Meyer

But for flowers and ravishing perfume, we had none to envy: our heap of road-metal was thick with bloom, like a hawthorn in the front of June; our red, baking angle in the mountain, a laboratory of poignant scents.
— from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson

Wait to judge; or rather, no, do not wait—” “What can I do?”
— from The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas

C. Darwin, `Journal of Researches' (1890), c. xix.
— from Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Edward Ellis Morris

Here we read the lines that express his heart's deep love for a district interwoven so closely with all the years of his working life: "By Yarrow's streams still let me stray, Though none should guide my feeble way; Still feel the breeze down Ettrick break, Although it chill my wither'd cheek." PLATE 23 "VIEW OF NEW ABBEY AND CRIFFEL" FROM A WATER-COLOUR SKETCH PAINTED BY JAMES ORROCK, R.I.
— from In the Border Country by W. S. (William Shillinglaw) Crockett