When this point has been reached and you feel that it is not the right one, not one that can be held, what is there left for you to do but to part again?
— from Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 2. The Romantic School in Germany by Georg Brandes

Then, when his grandmother begins to "sit up," she is told with a grave face that this is a reaction from naturalism, a revival of abstract line and color, a subjective art which is not the representation of nature but the expression of the artist's soul.
— from Artist and Public, and Other Essays on Art Subjects by Kenyon Cox

My objection is not that revenue ought not to be raised, but to the present mode.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 4 (of 16) by United States. Congress

By laying 'before us all the parts of that holiness, which is necessary to restore our natures to his own likeness;—and most pathetically, moreover to intreat us to do what lieth in us to put them in practice, that so it may be to eternity well with us.'
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

The present attitude of opposition is the result of prejudice, instilled in part by past experience with Christianity, and in part by the misrepresentation of its enemies; it is not the result of natural intolerance.
— from The Gist of Japan: The Islands, Their People, and Missions by R. B. (Rufus Benton) Peery

The only way in which the physician can determine whether labor has begun is by making an internal examination; and this will enable him to decide as to whether it is necessary to remain or not.
— from The Four Epochs of Woman's Life; A Study in Hygiene by Anna M. (Anna Mary) Galbraith

If further proof is necessary, the regiments of negro slaves recruited in Louisiana and the Carolinas, acquiring a discipline that has stood them in good stead at Olustee (day of gloom) and elsewhere on their native soil, may be cited in evidence of their capacity.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

As I happen to like both sense and nonsense, and the latter better than what generally passes for the former, I shall disclaim, even at Paris, the profondeur , for which they admire us; and I shall nonsense to admire Madame de Boufflers, though her nonsense is not the result of nonsense, but of sense, and consequently not the genuine nonsense that I honour.
— from Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II by Horace Walpole

It is not within our limits to follow the Calais lace manufacturers through their progress; suffice it to say that it was in 1817 that the first bobbin net machine worked, concealed from all eyes, at Saint-Pierre-lez-Calais, now, if not the rival of Nottingham, at least the great {453} centre of the bobbin net and machinery lace manufactures in France.
— from History of Lace by Palliser, Bury, Mrs.