The obvious pedagogical starting point of scientific instruction is not to teach things labeled science, but to utilize the familiar occupations and appliances to direct observation and experiment, until pupils have arrived at a knowledge of some fundamental principles by understanding them in their familiar practical workings.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

En un periodiquillo he leído que 25 Caballuco ha derrotado al brigadier Batalla."
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Not so my excellent uncle, Professor Hardwigg; he studied, he consumed the midnight oil, he pored over heavy tomes, and digested huge quartos and folios in order to keep the knowledge acquired to himself.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

interdum volgus rēctum videt, est ubi peccat , H. E. 2, 1, 63, sometimes the world sees right, there be times when it errs .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

If, by such a system of administration, smuggling to any considerable extent could be prevented, even under pretty high duties; and if every duty was occasionally either heightened or lowered according as it was most likely, either the one way or the other, to afford the greatest revenue to the state; taxation being always employed as an instrument of revenue, and never of monopoly; it seems not improbable that a revenue, at least equal to the present neat revenue of the customs, might be drawn from duties upon the importation of only a few sorts of goods of the most general use and consumption; and that the duties of customs might thus be brought to the same degree of simplicity, certainty, a
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

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— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Every lie and every unfulfilled promise has a tendency to lessen mutual confidence, to predispose the perpetrator to commit a similar offence in the future, and to serve as a bad example for others.
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck

No matter how heavily it rained, or strongly it blew, the two happy old fellows were as constant in their time of rising, and of their embarkation, as the sun was in mounting above the east, unless Phil happened to be engaged for a wedding or a wake, for the blind fiddler was in high request for all the rustic rejoicings around Torksey, where the singular companions lived—I mean, at Marton, and Sturton, and Fenton, and Newton, on the Lincolnshire side of the Trent; and not less at Laneham, and Dunham, and Drayton, and Rampton, and Leverton, on the side of merry Nottinghamshire.
— from Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Volume 1 (of 2) by Thomas Cooper

With Plato it attained a height which it never exceeded until Plato himself revived with the Renaissance.
— from Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus

That gentleman said that his engagements utterly precluded his going to see the President upon the subject, until twelve o’clock of the second night following.
— from The Backwoods Boy; or, The Boyhood and Manhood of Abraham Lincoln by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

Having acquired the bon ton of Western Europe, Uvarov prefaces his statement by the remark that the European governments have abandoned the method of "persecution and compulsion" in solving the Jewish question and that "this period has also arrived for us."
— from History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, Volume 2 [of 3] From the Death of Alexander I until the Death of Alexander III (1825-1894) by Simon Dubnow

With an exaggerated idea of the population of England, Parliament had not levied a large enough unit per head.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 03, April 1883 by Chautauqua Institution

Sermons were lightly esteemed unless preached here.
— from Old Church Lore by William Andrews

Even if a set of rules could be laid down for the management of a boat in the difficult parts of a river, it would not be made easier until practice has given the boatman that quick judgment as to their application which has to be patiently acquired in this and other athletic exercises, such as riding or skating, and even in walking.
— from A Thousand Miles in the Rob Roy Canoe on Rivers and Lakes of Europe by John MacGregor

Dignum est enim ut ... propter honorem qui ad principia refertur, etiam derivative imagines honorentur et adorentur.
— from The Essence of Christianity Translated from the second German edition by Ludwig Feuerbach