The appearance of white wigs above their black locks and goat-like beards gives an unusually grotesque effect to Rowlandson's delineation of the Hebrew race, always marked by the exaggerations of his fantastic humour.
— from Rowlandson the Caricaturist; a Selection from His Works. Vol. 1 by Joseph Grego

The spectacle of an equal number of intellectual-looking gentlemen, all using good English and all wearing clean linen, reaching diametrically opposite conclusions on precisely the same facts, is calculated to fill the well-intentioned juror with distrust.
— from Courts and Criminals by Arthur Cheney Train

These goods are undoubtedly good, even where the things or persons loved are imaginary; but it was urged that, where the thing or person is real and is believed to be so, these two facts together, when combined with the mere [p. 225] love of the qualities in question, constitute a whole which is greatly better than that mere love, having an additional value quite distinct from that which belongs to the existence of the object, where that object is a good person.
— from Principia Ethica by G. E. (George Edward) Moore

153] various motives of human actions, compared characters, and, in a word, scrutinized the heart, will find that more real virtue, more genuine and unaffected goodness exist amongst the female sex, than the other, and were their minds cultivated with equal care, and did they move in the bustle of life, they would not fall short of the men in the acute excellences; but the softness of their natures exempts them from action, and the blushes of beauty are not to be effaced by the rough storms of adversity: that man is happy who enjoys in the conjugal state, the endearments of love and innocence, and if his wife is less acquainted with the world than he, she makes a large amends, by the artless blandishments of a delicate affection.
— from The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II. by Theophilus Cibber

She was not very good at understanding great emotions—as Oliver Wyse might perhaps have agreed.
— from A Young Man's Year by Anthony Hope

"Costly and gaudy attire, unbecoming godliness."— Extracts , p. 185.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown