Its elegant style and still more excellent sentiments, will always command admiration,—and we doubt whether we could render a more essential service to society than to republish it annually, in order that every young married lady (at least within the range of our subscription) should receive the benefit of its precepts.
— from The Southern Literary Messenger, Vol. I., No. 4, December, 1834 by Various

Devotedly attached, as I am, to the great principles upon which your administration has been conducted, I feel that I can render a more efficient support to these principles on the floor of the Senate than I could in an executive office, which, from its nature, would necessarily withdraw me, in a great degree, from the general politics of the country, and again subject me to the labors of the profession.
— from Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States. v. 1 (of 2) by George Ticknor Curtis

A comparison of the two poems, therefore, we feel sure would bring to light some striking and curious resemblances and many equally strong and remarkable contrasts.
— from Vondel's Lucifer by Joost van den Vondel

[Pg 111] Latin people; and, when the needs of quickening civilization required a more elaborate system of law than custom could supply, there was the Roman law ready for use.
— from A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Henry Dwight Sedgwick

I replied, “at the rate they are being overthrown, there won’t be enough left to consider, unless”—I thought a moment—“unless I can reconstruct a more enduring set from parts of the old.”
— from A Tenderfoot Bride: Tales from an Old Ranch by Clarice E. Richards

The small crew moved about under the direction of a mate, setting things to rights, coiling ropes and making everything snug.
— from The Bungalow Boys Along the Yukon by John Henry Goldfrap

The Christian Recorder (A. M. E.) says: “No people can go down who make a plentiful use of soap and water.” THE FREEDMEN.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 32, No. 06, June, 1878 by Various

Grandparents, parents, and children of every poor, old, blind, lame, or impotent person not able to work, being of sufficient ability, shall at their own charge, relieve and maintain every such poor person in that manner and according to that rate as Justices of the Peace of that county determine, or else forfeit 20s.
— from Our Legal Heritage: King AEthelbert - King George III, 600 A.D. - 1776 by S. A. Reilly

The case recovered, and may encourage similar attempts.
— from A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Joseph Bell

[3] Apropos of these remarks it is worth while quoting here a memorial by the ex-Ambassador Kwo Sung-t'ao, published in the London and China Telegraph of 7th July, 1879, as the first presented to the Throne on his return to China, and in which the best that he can say of England, notwithstanding his cordial reception and marvellous experiences, seems to be that he was "excessively cast down in a strange country," where, "had he been put into a ditch, there would have been nobody to cover him with earth."
— from The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 by Various