The remarks that have been made on previous pages about connecting up batteries in series, multiple, and multiple series apply [115] also to these Edison Primary Cells.
— from A-B-C of Electricity by Wm. H. (William Henry) Meadowcroft

Japan, with its groves of evergreen, its flowering meadows, its smiling, graceful scenery, delights the beholder; but China, with its wide expanses, its enormous tracts of land and its virgin forests, captivates us by its sombre magnitude.
— from Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod by Péter Vay

With the Romans, in truth, only great heads and lights were interred on the way [233] at the expense of a whole state; but what shall I think of the Germans, with whom seldom serviceable subjects, but mostly finished rogues, are buried at public expense, which they call hangman's fees, having been previously hanged on the gallows by the roadside?–Not even in his lifetime can a man, unless he has extraordinary, and often eccentric merits,–although eccentric men fall back into the truth, as comets do into the sun , as fuel,–make his calculations upon being, in some manner, as the ancients duplicated their noble men in statues and pictures, hung up in effigy in a thick stone frame.... Let me have an answer; I allow myself to be talked with.
— from Hesperus; or, Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography. Vol. I. by Jean Paul