To sum up: Science represents the office of intelligence, in projection and control of new experiences, pursued systematically, intentionally, and on a scale due to freedom from limitations of habit.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

" "I have no doubt of it, and I complain of nobody excepting perhaps myself.
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 4 by Émile Zola

With every good wish for your safe conduct, and speedy return before I am compelled to depart, I have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient servant, (Signed) W.H. NORMAN, Commander, and Commander-in-Chief of Northern Exploring Parties.
— from Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills by William Landsborough

After all, we belong to that old-fashioned, rather narrow-minded class of New England people to whom debt of any kind is the source of something like anguish.
— from The Street Called Straight by Basil King

—A smokeless powder composed of nearly equal parts of nitro-glycerine and nitrated cellulose, with a small quantity of diphenylamine.
— from The Manufacture of Paper With Illustrations, and a Bibliography of Works Relating to Cellulose and Paper-Making by R. W. (Robert Walter) Sindall

“Under his guidance, the Bengal Council of National Education proposed to work, independent of, but by no means in opposition to, the Government Education Department.
— from Young India An interpretation and a history of the nationalist movement from within by Lala Lajpat Rai

While so large a detachment from the British army was depredating the coasts of New England, preparations were making in New York for some distant expedition; and many were of opinion that the French fleet was its object.
— from The Life of George Washington: A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Editions by John Marshall

9 Early in 1905 the Court of Nueva Ecija passed sentence of imprisonment for life on this man for murder.
— from The Philippine Islands A Political, Geographical, Ethnographical, Social and Commercial History of the Philippine Archipelago, Embracing the Whole Period of Spanish Rule by Foreman, John, F.R.G.S.

At the end of seven miles of winding canyon, there came a sharp turn to the east, which brought into view, at the other end, another canyon of nearly equal proportions and similar appearance.
— from The Romance of the Colorado River The Story of its Discovery in 1840, with an Account of the Later Explorations, and with Special Reference to the Voyages of Powell through the Line of the Great Canyons by Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh

Brazing solders when stated in the order of their hardness are:-three parts copper and one part zinc (very hard), eight parts brass and one part zinc (hard), six parts brass, one part tin, and one part zinc (soft); a very common solder for iron, copper, and brass, consists of nearly equal parts of copper and zinc.
— from A Catechism of the Steam Engine by Bourne, John, C.E.