Nor shall I ever feel repentance but in not having seen your merits before.
— from She Stoops to Conquer; Or, The Mistakes of a Night: A Comedy by Oliver Goldsmith

those roots are very paliatiable either fresh rosted boiled or dried and are generally between the Size of a quill and that of a mans fingar and about the length of the latter.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

But I knew them well, and could have found my way on a far darker night, and had no excuse for returning, being there.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

[66] Collatinus is supposed to have earned the odium of the people, and his consequent expulsion from Rome, by his endeavours to save his nephews, the Aquillii, from punishment.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

— N. traveler, wayfarer, voyager, itinerant, passenger, commuter. tourist, excursionist, explorer, adventurer, mountaineer, hiker, backpacker, Alpine Club; peregrinator[obs3], wanderer, rover, straggler, rambler; bird of passage; gadabout, gadling[obs3]; vagrant, scatterling[obs3], landloper[obs3], waifs and estrays[obs3], wastrel, foundling; loafer; tramp, tramper; vagabond, nomad, Bohemian, gypsy, Arab[obs3], Wandering Jew, Hadji, pilgrim, palmer; peripatetic; somnambulist, emigrant, fugitive, refugee; beach comber, booly[obs3]; globegirdler[obs3], globetrotter; vagrant, hobo [U.S.], night walker, sleep walker; noctambulist, runabout, straphanger, swagman, swagsman [obs3][Aust.]; trecker[obs3], trekker, zingano[obs3], zingaro[obs3].
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

There is a time, of course, for forethought, nay, even for repentance; but when it is over let us think of what is past as of something to which we have said farewell, of necessity subduing our hearts—
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by Arthur Schopenhauer

Timaeus has been severely criticised and harshly condemned by the ancients, especially by Polybius, who denies him every faculty required by the historical writer (xii.
— from On the Sublime by active 1st century Longinus

Were the human species so framed by nature as that each individual possessed within himself every faculty, requisite both for his own preservation and for the propagation of his kind: Were all society and intercourse cut off between man and man, by the primary intention of the supreme Creator:
— from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume

When Aurangzeb neglected the indigenous Rajputs, he endangered the keystone of his power; and in despising opinion, though his energetic mind might for a time render him independent of it, yet long before his death the enormous fabric reared by Akbar was tottering to its foundation: demonstrating to conviction that the highest order of talent, either for government or war, though aided by unlimited resources, will not suffice for the maintenance of power, unsupported by the affections of the governed.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

At any rate, the stories that were abroad about his wild youth, his connection with the strange sect known as Christians, his excommunication by them for profaning one of their rites, his expulsion from Rome by the Prefect of the City for his anarchistic harangues made a picturesque background for his cynic garb and ascetic preaching.
— from Roads from Rome by Anne C. E. (Anne Crosby Emery) Allinson

We have never seen in our own generation—indeed the world has not seen more than once or twice in all the course of history—a literature which has exercised such prodigious influence over the minds of men, over every cast and shade of intellect, as that which emanated from Rousseau between 1749 and 1762.
— from Ancient Law: Its Connection to the History of Early Society by Maine, Henry Sumner, Sir

We cannot believe that they are derived entirely from revelation, because we find the belief existing where no revelation is known, and because we find the sacred writers appealing to them as sources of conviction existing in the mental constitution of every man.
— from The Philosophy of the Moral Feelings by John Abercrombie

Tho' fortune's road be rough an' hilly To every fiddling, rhyming billie, We never heed, But take it like the unback'd filly, Proud o' her speed.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

Berkeley's opinion of free schools and printing Berkeley informs home government that all trouble with the Indians is happily over Berkeley's excuse for refusing Bacon's commission Berkeley denounces Bacon as a rebel Berkeley pardons Bacon Berkeley preparing to resist Bacon Berkeley and Bacon meet Berkeley revokes Bacon's commission and denounces him a rebel Berkeley in possession of Jamestown Berkeley demands surrender of Jamestown Berkeley's attack on Bacon's works Berkeley's tyranny at York Berkeley's departure from Virginia Berkeley's territory conveyed to the Duke of York Bland, execution of Brent reported advancing Buckingham succeeds Clarendon Burning of Jamestown Calvert, Sir George, at Jamestown, 1630 Calvert, Governor of Maryland Carolinia, William Hawley, governor of Carolinia settled by New Englanders Carolinia constitution Carteret, New Jersey conveyed to Carteret enters New Jersey with a hoe on his shoulder Carteret, Governor of New Jersey, deposed Census of New England in 1675
— from A Century Too Soon: The Age of Tyranny by John R. (John Roy) Musick

And if the earliest fossiliferous rocks be of such vast antiquity, and, as has been remarked, the period of their formation is comparatively recent with reference to the actual commencement of earth-history, the latter must indeed be inconceivably remote, and numerical estimates can do but little to familiarise us with the significance of the vast time which has rolled by since the world's birthday.
— from The Principles of Stratigraphical Geology by J. E. (John Edward) Marr