You have also just given me my share of happiness, and a share which I value the most, for nothing can equal in my estimation a proof that you still remember me.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

Who then is so contentious as to admit on the one hand that the concepts embodied in matter exist in nature—even though not all and equally in actuality, yet all potentially—while on the other hand he refuses to recognise that the same is true of the soul?
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

'Then, he said, with oaths common enough in my ears, but strange to yours, that if he could gratify his hatred by taking the boy's life without bringing his own neck in danger, he would; but, as he couldn't, he'd be upon the watch to meet him at every turn in life; and if he took advantage of his birth and history, he might harm him yet.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

In the middle class education is more extended; the children are instructed in grammar, English, Latin, history, geography, physics, and make I.131 likewise considerable progress in mathematics.
— from Travels Through North America, During the Years 1825 and 1826. v. 1-2 by Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach Bernhard

The motion before the House is: That in the opinion of this House a classical education is more efficacious than a modern one.
— from The Loom of Youth by Alec (Alexander Raban) Waugh

Such is the present personnel of Maryfort at this moment, affording a sketch of manners reminding one rather of a Huguenot family in southern France just after receiving the news of St. Bartholomew, than of any social condition extant in modern Europe.
— from Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. by Bernard Henry Becker

O'LEARY, PAUL M. Corporate enterprise in modern economic life.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1960 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

In his boyhood he devoted himself to the study of the Koran and the sciences, hut from his twelfth year was almost constantly engaged in military expeditions, chiefly against the crusaders.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

On, then, with added violence came two wide-spreading waves, and, being parted by my rock, completely encompassed it, meeting each other on the further and upper ground.
— from The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 by Fanny Burney

If I might describe in one word the sensation which I commonly experienced in my earliest lonely intercourse with stream and forest it was a breathless expectation, made up in part of fear, in part of a vague hope of discovering something wonderful.
— from Confessions of Boyhood by John Albee

If rays of different colours, falling in rapid succession, on the same points of the retina, thus seem to mingle with each other, and produce one confused effect, it must evidently be of great importance, for distinct vision, that the eyes should be so fixed, that the rays from the objects which we wish to observe, may not fall, on some parts of the retina, previously affected by the light of other objects, but, as much as possible, on the same parts, during the whole time of our observation.
— from Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind (Vol. 1 of 3) by Thomas Brown