Robert P. Porter, gives the American people a most interesting review of the antilynching crusade in England, submitting editorial opinions from all sections of England and Scotland, showing the consensus of British opinion on this subject.
— from The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States by Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Ut enim pictores et ii, qui signa fabricantur, et vero etiam poëtae suum quisque opus a vulgo considerari vult, ut, si quid reprehensum sit a pluribus, id corrigatur, iique et secum et ab aliis, [150] quid in eo peccatum sit, exquirunt, sic aliorum iudicio permulta nobis et facienda et non facienda et mutanda et corrigenda sunt.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero
exclaimed Lady Caroline in English, suddenly exasperated.
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim
All objections and scruples are here also obviated, by requiring the concurrence of the States concerned, in every such establishment.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton
In anciently civilised temperate countries, where the whole face of the land has been greatly changed, it can hardly be doubted that some plants have become extinct; nevertheless De Candolle has shown that all the plants historically known to have been first cultivated in Europe still exist here in the wild state.
— from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1 by Charles Darwin
But our case is even stronger: Everything with which man deals is full of mystery.
— from In His Image by William Jennings Bryan
Getting tired of this, and wanting to see something more of the world, I shipped in New York, early in December, on board the very prettiest craft I ever set eyes on, for a voyage to the West Indies.
— from Wakulla: a story of adventure in Florida by Kirk Munroe
There is scarce a Man in a red Coat who does not tell me, with a full Stare, he's a bold Man: I see several swear inwardly at me, without any Offence of mine, but the Oddness of my Person: I meet Contempt in every Street, express'd in different Manners, by the scornful Look, the elevated Eye-brow, and the swelling Nostrils of the Proud and Prosperous.
— from The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 With Translations and Index for the Series by Steele, Richard, Sir
In Germany the censorship is excessively severe, especially in Austria, Bavaria, and Prussia.
— from A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 2 (of 2) by Johann Beckmann
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