ABERGAVENNY, Aug. 4. RESPECTED SIR, I have received your esteemed favour of the 13th ultimo, whereby it appeareth, that you have perused those same Letters, the which were delivered unto you by my friend, the reverend Mr Hugo Behn; and I am pleased to find you think they may be printed with a good prospect of success; in as much as the objections you mention, I humbly conceive, are such as may be redargued, if not entirely removed—And, first, in the first place, as touching what prosecutions may arise from printing the private correspondence of persons still living, give me leave, with all due submission, to observe, that the Letters in question were not written and sent under the seal of secrecy; that they have no tendency to the mala fama, or prejudice of any person whatsoever; but rather to the information and edification of mankind: so that it becometh a sort of duty to promulgate them in usum publicum.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

There were skins of many animals that had long been rare, if not extinct, in the old colony where he was born.
— from A Hero of Ticonderoga by Rowland Evans Robinson

But robbing is not earning.
— from Kindness to Animals; Or, The Sin of Cruelty Exposed and Rebuked by Charlotte Elizabeth

I'll bet the department was appalled that such a gorgeous woman could be resolved into neo-Euclidian equations!"
— from We're Friends, Now by Henry Hasse

(1) The South as a whole, on any basis of material advancement, is below the average of other parts of the Union [Pg 339] and of several foreign countries; it is poor where it ought to be rich; it needs economic regeneration.
— from The Southern South by Albert Bushnell Hart

A Bible reader is now employed in Philadelphia by the Pennsylvania Bible Society.
— from The Employments of Women: A Cyclopædia of Woman's Work by Virginia Penny

A theatre, under the best regulations, is not essential to our happiness.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

Though an uncompromising realist in his theories, I suspect that down at bottom he was inclined to be romantic, if not even sentimental.
— from Mademoiselle Miss, and Other Stories by Henry Harland