The general conclusions which the facts that have come to my knowledge tend to establish on the subject of the experience of mortality are, that there is no general law of mortality yet established that is applicable to all countries or to all classes, or to all times, as commonly assumed; that every place, and class, and period has rather its own circumstances and its own law, varying with those circumstances; that the actual experience of any class or place, or period, even with the disturbance of any ordinary amount of migration, or immigration, or any ordinary influx of young lives from births, is a safer guide than any experience deduced from the experience of another people living at another time and place, or any assumed general law.
— from A supplementary report on the results of a special inquiry into the practice of interment in towns. by Edwin Chadwick

I may add that this is not generally known in the town, but I think the above "Note" is accurate.
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 123, March 6, 1852 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

The attitude of mind about the thing is not greatly altered, though happily the amount of injustice and wrong-doing has been lessened.
— from The Law and the Poor by Parry, Edward Abbott, Sir

He sent Mr. Arnold to Tovar in New Grenada.
— from The Woodlands Orchids, Described and Illustrated With Stories of Orchid-Collecting by Frederick Boyle

Mark adds that “there is no greater commandment than this,” and Matthew says: “In these two commandments is the whole law and the prophets.”
— from The Riddle of the Universe at the close of the nineteenth century by Ernst Haeckel

We may add, that there is no greater preservative of beauty than washing the face every night in hot water.
— from The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton