He undertook the supervision of Juliette’s arrangements as well as his own, bought antique Norman furniture, which he turned to various uses, manufactured carpets and curtains out of Juliette’s old theatre frocks, designed panels and mantelpieces, and the many incongruous articles which now decorate the Musée Victor Hugo, and which his friend aptly called “a poetical pot-pourri of art.”
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud
Si servum viderint, aut flatorem altius cinctum, aut pulvere perfusum, aut histrionem in scenam traductum, &c. 4929 .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
The act for apportioning crimes and punishments, part of the same work, I drew.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 1 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson
In feminine apparel corsets are perhaps productive of more injury than any other part of the costume.
— from Vitality Supreme by Bernarr Macfadden
Steinhart, Frank, American consul, advises President Palma to ask for American aid, IV, 271; correspondence with State Department, 272.
— from The History of Cuba, vol. 4 by Willis Fletcher Johnson
happens that the fisheries of the United States are almost entirely confined to the State of Massachusetts; and they furnish a considerable, a principal portion of our export trade.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 1 (of 16) by United States. Congress
All copies of it were also to be taken down from all churches and public places.
— from Books Condemned to be Burnt by James Anson Farrer
But we have already dwelt too long on this attempt at criticism on us in the Church Review —a Review from which, considering the general character of Episcopalians, we expected, if not much profound philosophy or any very rigid logic, at least the courtesy and fairness of the well-bred gentleman, such as we might expect from a cultivated and polished pagan.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 07, April 1868 to September, 1868 by Various
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