A little knowledge of the world, A little self-conceit down hurled, A little manly purpose new, A little woman, waiting, true.
— from St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, No. 06, April 1878 Scribner's Illustrated by Various

When this mode of thinking began to prevail, people detested to see in their gardens or on their tables plants which, in consequence of indecent properties, were generally known; and by being thus disused, the knowledge of them was at length so much lost, that we know only their old names, and what the ancients have related respecting them.
— from A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 2 (of 2) by Johann Beckmann

“No, Katharine; I am a poor unfashioned creature, with little knowledge of the world, and little skill in books, or fair accomplishments: but this one gift I have,—I can read the human countenance, and see written thereon the thoughts of the heart, the play of the secret passions, the inclinations of the inner will, in characters plain to my faithful eye, and plainly I repeat my conviction that both these men do love you.
— from The Broken Font: A Story of the Civil War, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Moyle Sherer