Felix Plater in the first book of his Observations, [1485] tells a story of an ancient gentleman in Alsatia, that married a young wife, and was not able to pay his debts in that kind for a long time together, by reason of his several infirmities: but she, because of this inhibition of Venus, fell into a horrible fury, and desired every one that came to see her, by words, looks, and gestures, to have to do with her, &c.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

If the arguments adduced, and illustrations presented, in the first part, in behalf of the fact of the Pure Reason, are satisfactory, and the analysis and attempted refutation of the celebrated dictum based upon two extremes, an excluded middle and a mean, in the second part, are accepted as sufficient, as also the criticisms upon certain general corollaries, and the explanation of certain general questions, then, so far at least as Sir William Hamilton is concerned, but little, if any, further remark will be expected.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

In the present instance Miss Pinkerton's "billet" was to the following effect:— The Mall, Chiswick, June 15, 18 MADAM,—After her six years' residence at the Mall, I have the honour and happiness of presenting Miss Amelia Sedley to her parents, as a young lady not unworthy to occupy a fitting position in their polished and refined circle.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

I shall be proud, Sam,’ said Mr. Pickwick, whose voice had faltered a little hitherto, but now resumed its customary tone, ‘proud and happy to make your future prospects in life my grateful and peculiar care.’
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

To see and dare, and decide; to be a fixed pillar in the welter of uncertainty;—a King among them, whether they called him so or not.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

Words which flow fresh and warm from a full heart, and which are instinct with the life and breath of human feeling, pass into household memories, and partake of the immortality of the affections from which they spring.
— 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.

The owners of houses in which much property had been left, brought there from other houses, complained of the injustice of taking everything to the Faceted Palace in the Krémlin; others insisted that as the French had gathered things from different houses into this or that house, it would be unfair to allow its owner to keep all that was found there.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

A corruption of JERSEY , the name for flax prepared in a peculiar manner, of which common wigs were formerly made; “the cove with the JAZEY ,” i.e. , the judge.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

And so, when she read aloud the prose of George Sand, prose which is everywhere redolent of that generosity and moral distinction which Mamma had learned from my grandmother to place above all other qualities in life, and which I was not to teach her until much later to refrain from placing, in the same way, above all other qualities in literature; taking pains to banish from her voice any weakness or affectation which might have blocked its channel for that powerful stream of language, she supplied all the natural tenderness, all the lavish sweetness which they demanded to phrases which seemed to have been composed for her voice, and which were all, so to speak, within her compass.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

The tall, fair young fellow placed in his hands an enormous sausage, and gave orders: “Here, go and arrange the sideboard in the corner over there.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

The eighteenth century, with its multiplication of slaves, saw somewhat more frequent plots in its early decades.
— from American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips

" Literary Life , after saying that " Wide Awake is the best monthly magazine for young folks published in the country," goes on to say of it, "Next to watching Nature herself, it is the finest educational work we ever have seen for children.
— from The Pansy Magazine, May 1886 by Various

The coupe went once around the block and then Frey parked it at the corner.
— from Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 by Various

The fabrication of false passports is a very flourishing trade, which has been of immense service to the revolutionists in covering up their movements and concealing from the eyes of justice those “wanted.”
— from Mysteries of Police and Crime, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Arthur Griffiths

If I fail in something, let my full performance in other some restore me; haste spurring me on with other necessities.
— from The Iliads of Homer Translated according to the Greek by Homer

There are four palaces in Seoul, the Eastern, Northern, Western, and the one I am just entering.
— from Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod by Péter Vay

How a feminine principle is produced from a male soul, 220 .
— from The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love To Which is Added The Pleasures of Insanity Pertaining To Scortatory Love by Emanuel Swedenborg

This famous Dolcoath 76-inch engine remained in constant work night and day for fifty-four years; after which good service the steam-pipes, being thinned by rust, were held together by bands and bolts; the steam-case around the cylinder would no longer bear the pressure of steam; the interior of the cylinder from wear was one inch larger in diameter than when first put in, and had to be held together by strap-bolts.
— from Life of Richard Trevithick, with an Account of His Inventions. Volume 2 (of 2) by Francis Trevithick

FOOTNOTES: [374:1] First printed in a 'privately printed autobiographical sketch of Miss Matilda Betham', preserved in a volume of tracts arranged and bound up by Southey, now in the Forster Collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum: reprinted (by J. Dykes Campbell) in the Athenaeum (March 15, 1890): and, again, in A House of Letters , by Ernest Betham [1905], pp. 76-7.
— from The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 1 (of 2) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge