“Mr. James Sime’s competence as a biographer of Goethe, both in respect of knowledge of his special subject, and of German literature generally, is beyond question.”— Manchester Guardian.
— from Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison by William Harrison

For this reason boats should always be kept well painted and varnished at all times, and whenever a bit of paint is rubbed or knocked off, it should immediately be touched up with fresh paint.
— from The Book of the Sailboat: How to rig, sail and handle small boats by A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt) Verrill

"Such as are ignorant of things done and past before themselves had any being continue still in the estate of children, able to speak and behave themselves no otherwise; and even within the bounds of their native countries (in respect of knowledge or manly capacity) they are no more than well-seeming dumb images."— From the Dedication of an anonymous translation of Boccaccio's Novels, &c. 1634.
— from Giotto by Harry Quilter

A few of these yet exist, if in ruins; others known only by record; and still others totally gone out of history—lost even to legend.
— from No Quarter! by Mayne Reid

And even when the operations of individual men have a part to play in his deductions, as when he is reasoning of kings, or other single rulers, still, as he is providing for indefinite duration, involving an indefinite succession of such individuals, he must in general both reason and act as if what is true of most persons were true of all.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive by John Stuart Mill

The inner ring of knowing ones knew that a company entitled "The Five Towns Newspapers, Limited," had been formed, with a capital of ten thousand pounds, and that Mr Myson held three thousand pounds' worth of shares, and the great Denry Machin one thousand five hundred, and that the remainder were to be sold and allotted as occasion demanded.
— from The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett

The Insect-eye may be far from optical perfection, and yet, as it ranges over known objects, the Insect-mind, trained to interpret colour, and varying brightness, and parallax, may gain minute and accurate information.
— from The Structure and Life-history of the Cockroach (Periplaneta orientalis) An Introduction to the Study of Insects by L. C. (Louis Compton) Miall

"Mr. James Sime's competence as a biographer of Goethe, both in respect of knowledge of his special subject, and of German literature generally, is beyond question."— Manchester Guardian.
— from Life of John Milton by Richard Garnett

The inner ring of knowing ones knew that a company entitled "The Five Towns Newspapers, Limited," had been formed, with a capital of ten thousand pounds, and that Mr. Myson held three thousand pounds' worth of shares, and the great Denry Machin one thousand five hundred, and that the remainder were to be sold and allotted as occasion demanded.
— from Denry the Audacious by Arnold Bennett