The wise man, even destitute of riches, enjoyeth elevated and very honourable stations; whilst the wretch, endowed with wealth, acquireth the post of disgrace.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

They found him just as they had ever known him’ (I acknowledge that this pathos beats my humble defence of Rey entirely), ‘except that he had learned to read and write; and the certificates of his commanders proved him to be a good and gallant soldier.
— from The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh; and the Irish Sketch Book by William Makepeace Thackeray

Far better and cleverer young men than Gervase make this same choice every day, or rather every evening; and no one can tell why.
— from The Cuckoo in the Nest, v. 1/2 by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Pileum sooty-brown, decidedly darker than the back; wings and tail entirely destitute of rufous edgings, except a faint tinge on outer webs of inner secondaries and rectrices, towards the base.
— from A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 2 of 3 by Robert Ridgway

We discussed our route, estimated every day’s journey, and all the possibilities and probabilities incident to our advance.
— from England and Canada A Summer Tour Between Old and New Westminster, with Historical Notes by Sandford Fleming

Owing to the great difficulty of replacement every effort has been made, during the last two years of the war, to keep pipers out of the front line.
— from The Pipes of War A Record of Achievements of Pipers of Scottish and Overseas Regiments during the War, 1914-18 by John (Pipe-Major) Grant

Empress Marie Louise Frontispiece Napoleon in 1813 50 Napoleon, François Charles Joseph, Prince Imperial; King of Rome; Duke of Reichstadt 98 Map of the Field of Operations in 1814 104 The King of Rome 148 Map of the Campaign of 1815 194 Napoleon, François Charles Joseph, Duke of Reichstadt, etc., etc., son of Napoleon Bonaparte 200 Napoleon sleeping by Las Cases on board the Bellerophon 224
— from The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Vol. 4 (of 4) by William Milligan Sloane

From the collection of W. C. Crane Napoleon Francis Charles Joseph, Duke of Reichstadt, etc., etc., Son of Napoleon Bonaparte.
— from The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Vol. 4 (of 4) by William Milligan Sloane

While the king's declared intention was to depress, or rather entirely extirpate the English gentry [x], it is easy to believe that scarcely the form of justice would be observed in those violent proceedings
— from The History of England, Volume I From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 by David Hume

[Pg 376] UGLY Certainly, at this blessed epoch of Equality of mediocrity, of rectangular abomination, as Edgar Poe says, at this delightful period, when everybody dreams of resembling everybody else, so that it has become impossible to tell the President of the Republic from a waiter; in these days, which are the forerunners of that promising, blissful day, when everything in this world will be of a dully, neuter uniformity, certainly at such an epoch, one has the right, or rather it is one's duty, to be ugly.
— from The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 Boule de Suif and Other Stories by Guy de Maupassant