When he had in some measure recovered, I removed him to my own cabin, and attended on him as much as my duty would permit.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

ind the square root of the number of the people, I should answer that I am here taking this number only as an instance; that the relations of which I am speaking are not measured by the number of men alone, but generally by the amount of action, which is a combination of a multitude of causes; and that, further, if, to save words, I borrow for a moment the terms of geometry, I am none the less well aware that moral quantities do not allow of geometrical accuracy.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Its use must remain a matter of conjecture as we have no written description of such an instrument.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

Mouse Tower, standing in the middle of the Rhine, is the haunted monument of cruel Archbishop Hatto, of Mainz, who (anno 970) bade the famine-stricken people repair to his barn, wherein he shut them fast and burned them.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

Both parties, in the schools, as well as in the temples, acknowledged and worshipped the divine majesty of Christ; and, as we are always prone to impute our own sentiments and passions to the Deity, it would be deemed more prudent and respectful to exaggerate, than to circumscribe, the adorable perfections of the Son of God.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

And, finally, is it really a thing to be taken as matter of course, and [164] no matter for admiration, in this girl that, from beginning to end, and after a storm of utterly unjust reproach, not a thought of resentment should even cross her mind?
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

He thought school much more bearable under this modification of circumstances; and he went on contentedly enough, picking up a promiscuous education chiefly from things that were not intended as education at all.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

A man of Callatis, a town on the Black Sea in Thrace, originally colonized by the Milesians.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

The æsthetic state represents an overflow of means of communication as well as a condition of extreme sensibility to stimuli and signs.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

My train are men of choice and rarest parts, That all particulars of duty know; And in the most exact regard support The worships of their name.——O most small fault, How ugly didst thou in Cordelia shew!
— from The Collected Works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 01 (of 12) by William Hazlitt

After all, I rejoice that my own children are learning how to read and write and cipher much more easily, much more quickly, and withal much more pleasantly than I learned those useful arts.
— from Craftsmanship in Teaching by William C. (William Chandler) Bagley

The words and lettering were the work of an Italian lad, who had a faculty for seeing the humor in things which made others cry and sigh.
— from My Life by Josiah Flynt

“As no pious person ought to doubt of the mercy of God, of the merit of Christ, and of the virtue and efficacy of the sacraments,” says the Tridentine Council, “even so each one, when he regards himself and his own weakness and indisposition, may have fear and apprehension touching his own grace; seeing that no one can know with a certainty of faith, which cannot be subject to error, that he has obtained the grace of God.”
— from Grace, Actual and Habitual: A Dogmatic Treatise by Joseph Pohle

Testing Boilers.—The tightness of the joints of a boiler is best tested in the first instance by means of compressed air.
— from Things To Make by Archibald Williams

An endless carrier, made of chain and wood, like leathern belts used in small mills, extends from the iron rollers out of the main building and through the entire length of the open shed.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

A seafaring race and a mercantile fleet had come into a militant existence; and ambitious designs were meditated of conquering a part of the import and export trade held by the British.
— from History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times by Gustavus Myers

The pan in the bottom of the stand, placed there to catch the drippings from the umbrellas, is made of copper and is beaten into shape in the same way as you would drive any pan into form.
— from The Library of Work and Play: Working in Metals by Charles Conrad Sleffel

After one or two disastrous business experiences, such as fall to the lot of many great inventors, perhaps to test their perseverance, Watt associated himself with Matthew Boulton, a man of capital and of enterprise, owner of the Soho Engineering Works, near Birmingham.
— from The Age of Invention: A Chronicle of Mechanical Conquest by Holland Thompson