The note explains that Toronto and Niagara, are "postes considérables de l'Ontario: le premier, situé à l'ouest de ce lac, est formé par une baie profonde et commode, où le Gouvernement Anglais a fait construire un chantier, et une ville à laquelle on a donné le nom d'York; le second, situé au sud-ouest, est formé par l'embouchure de la rivière Niagara, à l'est de laquelle est la forteresse du même nom, et à l'ouest la pointe des Missisagués, sur laquelle on construit une nouvelle ville, destinée à être la capitale du Haut Canada."
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

Children are commonly forbidden to ask for anything at table, for people think they can do nothing better in the way of education than to burden them with useless precepts; as if a little bit of this or that were not readily given or refused without leaving a poor child dying of greediness intensified by hope.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

All persons chronically diseased are egotists, whether the disease be of the mind or body; whether it be sin, sorrow, or merely the more tolerable calamity of some endless pain, or mischief among the cords of mortal life.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Yet it should seem that they soon mingled with the Romans of Aquitain, till Charlemagne introduced a more numerous and powerful colony, (Dubos, Hist.
— 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

Mr. Windham having placed a pillow conveniently to support him, he thanked him for his kindness, and said, 'That will do,—all that a pillow can do.'
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

“Ah, poor child, don’t talk like that-cheer up—there’s daylight ahead.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

The center picture of the so-called Arkesilas-Bowl of Vulci at Paris, Cab. d. Méd. 189, represents a picture as seen by the artist in Kyrene how King Arkesilas (VI. saec.)
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

189 This treatment of non-combatants was contrary to the usages of civilised warfare even in those days, and seems to have been the true ground for the charge of crudelitas always attributed to Hannibal by Roman writers, as opposed to the behaviour of such an enemy as Pyrrhus (Cic. de Am. 28).
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

[political parties] party &c. 712; Democratic Party[U.S: list], Republican Party, Socialist Party, Communist Party; Federalist Party[U.S. defunct parties: list], Bull Moose Party, Abolitionist Party; Christian Democratic Party[Germany: list], Social Democratic Party; National Socialist Worker's Party[Germany, 1930-1945], Nazi Party; Liberal Party[Great Britain:list], Labor Party, Conservative Party.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

La nymphe qui donne de cette eau Au plus creux de rocher se cache, Suivez un example si beau: Donnez sans vouloir qu'on le sache.
— from Poems by Carr, John, Sir

On any particularly cold day he would send one or more students over to Aunt Harriet's to find out if she and her poor helpless son were comfortable.
— from Booker T. Washington, Builder of a Civilization by Lyman Beecher Stowe

and Nan was quite as surprised at the news as Patty could desire.
— from Patty's Social Season by Carolyn Wells

A pianist can describe his manner of tone production, methods of touch, fingering, pedaling; the violinist can discourse on the bow arm, use of left hand, on staccato and pizzicati; but the singer is loath to describe his own instrument.
— from Vocal Mastery Talks with Master Singers and Teachers, Comprising Interviews with Caruso, Farrar, Maurel, Lehmann, and Others by Harriette Brower

Another party of thirty men was sent out upon the mountain road leading from Fort Clinton to Haverstraw; and at a place called Doodletown, three miles south from the fort, they fell in with the advanced guard of the approaching British.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 1 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing

It was this plea that snatched the mild, eloquent, and patriotic Camillo Desmoulins from his young and beautiful wife, and hurried him to the guillotine with thousands of others equally unoffending and innocent.
— from Sketches and Studies by Nathaniel Hawthorne

rigor al mundo envia, que de Nymphas la casta compañia por los sombrios mora, y por las fuentes: Y la cigarra el canto replicando, se està quejando, pastora canta, con gracia tanta, que enternescido de haverte oído, al poderoso cielo de su grado fresco liquor envie al seco prado.
— from History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 1 of 2) by Friedrich Bouterwek

After love’s sweet cares are past, Cares draw nigh, by love ungladden’d, After life comes death at last.
— from The poems of Heine; Complete Translated into the original metres; with a sketch of his life by Heinrich Heine

These features are all marked with that elegance peculiar to the East, and more especially to a people claiming descent from the ancient Greeks, and possibly having some of their blood in their veins.
— from A History of Architecture in all Countries, Volume 1, 3rd ed. From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by James Fergusson

The enemy is shelling us now, and as it is a particularly clear day they are using it to the best advantage to try and destroy us.
— from Letters of Lt.-Col. George Brenton Laurie (commanding 1st Battn. Royal Irish Rifles) Dated November 4th, 1914-March 11th, 1915 by G. B. (George Brenton) Laurie