With Mary’s decline I find more question marks here, question marks beyond war’s great question marks; these question marks began with Ann Rutledge, resumed in East Salem, continued along the Mississippi and on my legal circuits.
— from Voices from the Past by Paul Alexander Bartlett

An intelligent American, recently resident in Egypt, says it was affecting to notice the interest with which the working-classes there were looking upon our late struggle in America, and the earnestness of their wishes for the triumph of the Union.
— from The Chimney-Corner by Harriet Beecher Stowe

An intelligent American, recently resident in Egypt, says it was affecting to notice the interest with which the working classes there were looking upon our late struggle in America, and the earnestness of their wishes for the triumph of the Union.
— from Household Papers and Stories by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Here is a ready resort in every such emergency.
— from Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young Or, the Principles on Which a Firm Parental Authority May Be Established and Maintained, Without Violence or Anger, and the Right Development of the Moral and Mental Capacities Be Promoted by Methods in Harmony with the Structure and the Characteristics of the Juvenile Mind by Jacob Abbott

The story, at least in most of his earlier and most popular pieces— Waverley , the Antiquary , the Bride of Lammermoor , Old Mortality , the Abbot , Ivanhoe , Kenilworth , Quentin Durward , and Rob Roy —is extremely simple; the incidents few and well chosen; the interest of an homogeneous kind, and uniformly sustained; the inferior characters and incidents kept in their due subordination to the principal ones.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various

The mind is ever attaining to new truths, and is confirming the remark so often quoted from a celebrated English Chancellor, (Bacon) a remark which applies as well to revealed as to natural religion, of which Christianity is but the development; Leves gustus in philosophia movere fortasse ad atheismum, sed pleniores haustus ad religionem reducere : i. e. superficial knowledge in philosophy may perhaps lead to atheism, but a fundamental knowledge will lead to religion ."
— from The American Quarterly Review, No. 18, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various

Those who believe themselves endowed with genius, expect to find a royal road in every science shorter, and less laborious, than the beaten paths of industry.
— from Practical Education, Volume I by Richard Lovell Edgeworth