That's like my brother's fault; if it confess / A natural guiltiness, such as his is, / Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue / Against my brother's life.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Poor Bessy had always been considered a naughty girl; she was conscious of it; if it was necessary to be very good, it was clear she must be in a bad way.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

If it confess A natural guiltiness such as is his, Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue Against my brother's life.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

No faculty of the mind can conduct us from the conception of a thing to the existence of something else; and hence he believed he could infer that, without experience, we possess no source from which we can augment a conception, and no ground sufficient to justify us in framing a judgement that is to extend our cognition a priori.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

At night they encamped on a plain about two miles from Taliquo, an Indian town, when all their attendants, upon one pretence or another, left them; which the officers considered as no good sign, and therefore placed a strict guard round their camp.
— from An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2 by Alexander Hewatt

Go to your own bosom, my lord; knock there, and ask your heart what it does know that is like my brother’s fault; if it confess a natural guiltiness such as his is, let it not sound a thought against my brother’s life!”
— from Tales from Shakespeare by Charles Lamb

The Bretons received them kindly, and gave him a small room, where, the next day, he sent for the rest of the council, telling them they ought to choose a new general, since M. d'Elbee was missing.
— from A Book of Golden Deeds by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

of course.' 'It seems to me that Lutchkov has made a great impression on you.' 'No!' answered Masha, and she bent over, as though wishing to examine the pattern more closely; a narrow golden streak of light lay on her hair; 'no...
— from The Jew and Other Stories by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Children are not generally sent to school until they are seven or eight years old; they enter, usually, for a whole year, and must pay for that term whether they attend regularly or not.
— from Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat In the U. S. Sloop-of-war Peacock, David Geisinger, Commander, During the Years 1832-3-4 by Edmund Roberts

[Pg. 303] Those which reach our own shores are generally divided into three classes according to the districts from which they came, namely, Pekin, Tientsin and Thibet, the latter being practically Chinese although not geographically so.
— from The Practical Book of Oriental Rugs by G. Griffin (George Griffin) Lewis

Botanists, it is true, have dug pitfalls for those who seek exact knowledge as to the names and characters of the many species, but, fortunately, each of the cultivated species constitutes a natural group so distinct that the grape-grower can hardly mistake one for another in either fruit or vine.
— from Manual of American Grape-Growing by U. P. Hedrick

He never complained and never grew sullen.
— from The Eagle's Heart by Hamlin Garland