This comparative standpoint is legitimate enough for some purposes, but if we make it final, the question arises whether we are not guilty of an overweening presumption.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

ix., 1898; J. Texte, Jean Jacques Rousseau and the Cosmopolitan Spirit in Literature, etc. (translation), 1899; H. H. Hudson, Rousseau and Naturalism in Life and Thought (World's Epoch Makers), 1903; F. Macdonald, Jean Jacques Rousseau, a new criticism, 1906; J. C. Collins, Voltaire, Montesquieu, and Rousseau in England, 1908.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Ignotus notusve mihi de gente togata Sive aget in ludis, pulpita sive colet, Sive in Lycaeo, et nugas evolverit istas, Si quasdam mendas viderit inspiciens, Da veniam Authori, dices; nam plurima vellet Expungi, quae jam displicuisse sciat.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

About midnight the noises dulled away, and I was sinking to sleep, when I heard a new and curious sound; I listened: evidently some joyous lunatic was softly dancing a "double shuffle" in the room over my head.
— from A Tramp Abroad — Volume 07 by Mark Twain

“But I tell you so clearly that under no circumstances should I leave England just now.
— from Isabel Clarendon, Vol. 2 (of 2) by George Gissing

About midnight the noises dulled away, and I was sinking to sleep, when I heard a new and curious sound; I listened: evidently some joyous lunatic was softly dancing a “double shuffle” in the room over my head.
— from A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain

Distance often lends boldness to the tongue, as the poet Campbell says it: Lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue.
— from Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour by Robert Smith Surtees

Tu dici: "Io veggio l'acqua, io veggio il foco, l'aere e la terra e tutte lor misture venire a corruzione, e durar poco; e queste cose pur furon creature; per che, se cio` ch'e` detto e` stato vero, esser dovrien da corruzion sicure". Li angeli, frate, e 'l paese sincero nel qual tu se', dir si posson creati, si` come sono, in loro essere intero; ma li
— from La Divina Commedia di Dante: Complete by Dante Alighieri

in the order i, e, a, o, u , (and with the continental sounds, i like ee , e like ay , a like ah , u like oo .) {418} Eighty or ninety years ago, Mr. Kratzenstein contrived an apparatus for imitating the various vowel sounds.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various