Am I to blame if it is not found elsewhere?
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The suspicion is not founded, either in nature or in fact.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

[perhaps] 128 a deep-hidden and designed enterprise of supreme wisdom for preparing, if not for establishing, conformity to law amid the freedom of states, and with this a unity of a morally grounded system of those states.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

Whilst the majority of Catholic writers regard Freemasonry itself as the source of all evil--"the Synagogue of Satan"--more impartial investigators have pronounced the opinion that it is not Freemasonry even of the Grand Orient variety but something concealed behind Freemasonry which constitutes the principal danger.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

These critics must know, too, from history if not from experience, that women as unscrupulous as Mrs Warren have distinguished themselves as administrators and rulers, both commercially and politically.
— from Mrs. Warren's Profession by Bernard Shaw

"I may get into a scrape for telling; but I didn't promise not to, so I will, for I never feel easy in my mind till I've told you any plummy bit of news I get.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

At many turnpikes, it has been said, the money levied is more than double of what is necessary for executing, in the completest manner, the work, which is often executed in a very slovenly manner, and sometimes not executed at all.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

But it seemed that, when on the wharf, Queequeg had not at all noticed what I now alluded to; hence I would have thought myself to have been optically deceived in that matter, were it not for Elijah’s otherwise inexplicable question.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

The nation as a whole, with the development of sedentary life, increases its population and therewith its need for external movements; it widens its national area and its circle of contact with other lands, enlarges its geographical horizon, and improves its internal communication over a growing territory; it evolves a greater mobility within and without, which attaches, however, to certain classes of society, not to the entire social group.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

This is now firmly established.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 02 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

It is now for ever at an end; and the only system which can really satisfy the wants of our nature, individually or collectively, is therefore ready for our acceptance.
— from A General View of Positivism Or, Summary exposition of the System of Thought and Life by Auguste Comte

One of the ladies, whose early weeks in the Residency had been weeks of misery, afterwards wrote thus: ‘I now find every hour of the day fully occupied.
— from The History of the Indian Revolt and of the Expeditions to Persia, China and Japan, 1856-7-8 by George Dodd

I should be grieved at it, [Not for eight years yet, MON PRINCE, I am sorry to say!
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 21 by Thomas Carlyle

The aim of this work is to set forth the general truths of Biology, as illustrative of, and as interpreted by, the laws of Evolution: the special truths being introduced only so far as is needful for elucidation of the general truths.
— from The Principles of Biology, Volume 1 (of 2) by Herbert Spencer

Perhaps I never felt entire confidence in him.' Mary smiled and sighed.
— from The Odd Women by George Gissing

The caste is not found elsewhere in India.
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 1 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

A very slight inspection of my pockets satisfied me that coal-tar was capable of becoming liquid, and, if I needed further evidence, the sable rivulets that began to meander down the sides of my face gave ample corroboration of the fact.
— from St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, July 1878, No. 9 by Various