Lady Windermere's Fan Transcribed from the 1917 Methuen & Co. Ltd edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org LADY WINDERMERE’S FAN A PLAY ABOUT A GOOD WOMAN
— from Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde

The one can prescribe no rules concerning the commerce or currency of the nation; the other is in several respects the arbiter of commerce, and in this capacity can establish markets and fairs, can regulate weights and measures, can lay embargoes for a limited time, can coin money, can authorize or prohibit the circulation of foreign coin.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Quando voleno fare oglio piglianno queſto cocho et laſſano putrefare q e lla medola cõ lacqua et poi la fanno buglire et
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

But what was that, when such friends were to be met?" "Perhaps, Miss Marianne," cried Lucy, eager to take some revenge on her, "you think young men never stand upon engagements, if they have no mind to keep them, little as well as great.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

For some reason he thought it rather a good joke, and laughed immoderately at my concern lest even then sparks should be burrowing in the rotten wall that might yet break out in flame and destroy the house with all that were in it.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

[Pg 218] and monstrous than this picture, and which the eyes of good men can less endure.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Je lui ai cette obligation entre les autres, de m’ auoir non seulement mis en main cc Livre en anglois, mais encore le Manuscrit du Sieur Thomas D’Anan, gentilhomme Eccossois, recommandable pour sa vertu, sur la version duquel j’ advoue que j’ ay tiré le plan de la mienne.”
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

They felt grieved because the oracle had forbidden them, through my cabalistic lips, ever to mention my science in the presence of Tartufe.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The … and Miss Lamb's favourite, 'Lady Blanche and the Abbess,' commonly called 'Vanitas et Modestia' (Campanella, los. ed.), for I foresee that this Dogma will occasion a considerable call for them—let them, therefore, be ready."
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

And no mere commonplace language, either, but rattling, out-and-out book-talk—and bristling with metaphor, too—just bristling!
— from A Tramp Abroad — Volume 01 by Mark Twain

“I mus’ go long en put on my dinner ’fo’ de ole man come ’long en holler fer his vittles.
— from Old Times in Dixie Land: A Southern Matron's Memories by Caroline E. (Caroline Elizabeth) Merrick

"My dear sir," said Frank, "my cousin, Lady Eustace, is strong in her confidence that her late husband intended to give them to her as her own, and that he would not have done this without the power of doing so."
— from The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope

C'est un très galant homme, qui a des connoissances et de l'esprit; il suffira de lui montrer cette lettre, et je suis sur qu'il vous recevra bien, et contribuera [Pg 142] à vous faire voir l'isle et ses habitans avec satisfaction.
— from Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica by James Boswell

This measure certainly, like every other political favour shown to the proletariate, ran counter to the tendencies of the aristocracy friendly to reform; but it was for Rufus hardly anything else than what the corn-law had been for Drusus—a means of drawing the proletariate over to his side and of breaking down with its aid the opposition against the truly beneficial reforms which he meditated.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

It is stated in a work published in 1680, entitled [Pg 193] “Warning to Servants, or, the case of Margaret Clark, lately executed for firing her master’s house in Southwark.”
— from Old Church Lore by William Andrews

But how that jewel's sparkle would brighten my cold, lonely existence!
— from Flora Adair; or, Love Works Wonders. Vol. 2 (of 2) by A. M. Donelan

An' there, in leäter years, I roved Wi' thik poor maïd I fondly lov'd,— The maïd too feäir to die so soon,— When evenèn twilight, or the moon, Cast light enough 'ithin the pleäce To show the smiles upon her feäce, Wi' eyes so clear's the glassy pool, An' lips an' cheäks so soft as wool.
— from Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect by William Barnes

Trained in the precise methods of the physical sciences, he had long fought against the fascination of the immense puzzles which the archeologists were trying to solve, but no man could long escape.
— from The Alien by Raymond F. Jones