For among us it is not necessary, as among the Hottentots, that a youth, to be raised into the company of men, should prove his manhood by beating his mother.
— from The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers by M. L. (Mason Locke) Weems

For among us, it is not necessary, as among the Hottentots, that a youth, to be raised into the company of men, should prove his manhood by beating his mother."
— from Makers of Electricity by Brother Potamian

She began the same manner of life as that followed by most French women, being reared in the Convent of Madeleine de Frénel, where, when quite young, she evinced a strong spirit of impiety, giving expression to the most sceptical opinions upon religious subjects, to the great dismay of her superiors and parents.
— from Women of Modern France (Illustrated) Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 7 (of 10) by Hugo P. (Hugo Paul) Thieme

“You then conceive there is a rule superior to interest, which ought to be respected in the control of monikin affairs?”
— from The Monikins by James Fenimore Cooper

It hath been observed by Dr. Stephens , to grow all along the Banks of the Doder , from Donore-Brook to [22] Old Baun , upon Roch Town Hills; it grows on the Borders of a great Bog for several Miles, by Rathmullian in the County of Meath .
— from A Method of Tanning without Bark by William Maple

The one [Pg 298] view is that observational science can make no account of miracle: the other is that thought concerning a supernatural Being really involved the conception of miracle.
— from The Relations of Science and Religion The Morse Lecture, 1880 by Henry Calderwood

Although, as a rule, solvents accelerate the transformation of one solid phase into the other, they may also have a retarding influence on the velocity of transformation, as was found by Reinders in the case of mercuric iodide.
— from The Phase Rule and Its Applications by Alexander Findlay

He came of [547] a family of unpretentious farmers, or habitants, as they are styled in Lower Canada, the ancestors originally from Old France, although several generations have been represented in the county of Montmagny below the city of Quebec.
— from Montreal from 1535 to 1914. Vol. 3. Biographical by William H. (William Henry) Atherton

Reduced to the categorical : The G case of Jefferson being right is the case of man being created M free and equal ; S Man was not created M free and equal , ∴ A Jefferson (this man) was not G right .
— from A Class Room Logic Deductive and Inductive, with Special Application to the Science and Art of Teaching by George Hastings McNair

For among us,' continued Franklin satirically, 'it is not necessary, as among the Hottentots, that a youth, to be raised into the company of men, should prove his manhood by beating his mother.'
— from Modern Substitutes for Christianity by Pearson M'Adam Muir