It must indeed be confess'd, that a Lampoon or a Satyr do not carry in them Robbery or Murder; but at the same time, how many are there that would not rather lose a considerable Sum of Mony, or even Life it self, than be set up as a Mark of Infamy and Derision?
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

The Princess Royal, perhaps naturally, preferred to have her children’s nursery arranged and conducted on the English rather than on the German model, but who can doubt that in this, as in other matters of even less importance, she would have done better to have studied the susceptibilities of her adopted country?
— from The Empress Frederick: a memoir by Anonymous

So much, then, by way of proof that the method of establishing laws in science is exactly the same as that pursued in common life.
— from Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02 by Thomas Henry Huxley

My own estates lie in Sussex, and there would be but little chance of my recognition, save by your own adherents, who may have seen me among the leaders of your troops in battle; and even that is improbable.
— from A Knight of the White Cross: A Tale of the Siege of Rhodes by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

This mode of experiencing love is something that manifests itself only episodically in the Greek, Latin and medieval poets.
— from Ariosto, Shakespeare and Corneille by Benedetto Croce

" "You have no faith in me?" "You see, I shall be a helpless log, a useless invalid for twelve months or even longer," I said.
— from Dimbie and I—and Amelia by Mabel Barnes-Grundy

Reasoned this “Little Mother” of Elbow Lane, “If she was just plain baby an’ not no ‘Angel,’ she’d a-cried fer her ma, an’ she hain’t never, not onct.
— from A Sunny Little Lass by Evelyn Raymond

The researches of the Geological Surveyors has shown that in ancient times man, in the same stage of civilization as the palæolithic man of Europe, lived in Southern India and in the valley of the Narbadá.
— from Cave Hunting Researches on the evidence of caves respecting the early inhabitants of Europe by William Boyd Dawkins

So much by way of proof that the method of establishing laws in science is exactly the same as that pursued in common life.
— from Lectures and Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley