They do not know that I would rather want a shirt than want a springy mind, and that my total want of happiness, were I to step into York Minster now, would be far, far worse than their want of a hundred pounds when they might happen to need it; and that, if a dozen glasses, or a bottle of wine, drives off their cares, such cures only make me outwardly passable in company, but never drive off mine.
— from The Brontë Family, with special reference to Patrick Branwell Brontë. Vol. 2 of 2 by Francis A. Leyland

#/ JAMES OTIS'S COLONIAL SERIES Calvert of Maryland Mary of Plymouth Peter of New Amsterdam Richard of Jamestown Ruth of Boston Stephen of Philadelphia Price, each, 35 cents.
— from Philip of Texas: A Story of Sheep Raising in Texas by James Otis

In a large drawing, or one composed of many members or parts, it would, therefore, be out of the question [109] to mark in the dotted lines.
— from Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught Comprising instructions in the selection and preparation of drawing instruments, elementary instruction in practical mechanical drawing; together with examples in simple geometry and elementary mechanism, including screw threads, gear wheels, mechanical motions, engines and boilers by Joshua Rose

[945] A careful observer of what was going on late in the eighteenth century, expresses what, early in the nineteenth century, was becoming the conviction of most men of plain, sound understanding, who had no interest in the existing corruption: ‘Immoderate taxation, the result of the unnecessary wars of the reign of George III., is the cause of our embarrassments; and that immoderate taxation has been occasioned by the House of Commons being composed of men not interested to protect the property of the people.’—
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 1 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle

We should reprobate with the same severity a system tinder which a like exclusive protection should be extended to French or Spanish, Chemistry or Mineralogy, Metaphysics or Political Economy.
— from Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 6 With a Memoir and Index by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

Another of these Revolutionary prints, from the National Almanac for 1791, engraved by Debucourt, and preserved in the collection of M. Muhlbacher of Paris, gives an ingenious and picturesque presentation of one of the numberless sources of supply of that literature of journals and pamphlets on which the Revolution was so largely fed.
— from Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 by William Walton

she began, before I could open my mouth or put my hands behind my back.
— from The Love Story of Abner Stone by Edwin Carlile Litsey

A plate with bust portrait of a warrior, {126} in the collection of M. Meurnier, of Paris, having four coats of arms on the border and the letters Y. A. E., is inscribed on the face with the name “Gabriel.
— from Maiolica by C. Drury E. (Charles Drury Edward) Fortnum