How much of my ungracious condition of mind may have been my own fault, how much Miss Havisham's, how much my sister's, is now of no moment to me or to any one.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

The real purpose was to counteract the influence of the “Blue Lodge” and other secret secessionist organizations among the wealthier slave-holding classes, made up chiefly of mixed-bloods and whites.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

The nabobs soon became a most unpopular class of men.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

Emmanuel and his wife conversed with natural astonishment in their little apartment in the Rue Meslay upon the three successive, sudden, and most unexpected catastrophes of Morcerf, Danglars, and Villefort.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

The only case in which the higher ground has been taken on principle and maintained with consistency, by any but an individual here and there, is that of religious belief: a case instructive in many ways, and not least so as forming a most striking instance of the fallibility of what is called the moral sense: for the odium theologicum , in a sincere bigot, is one of the most unequivocal cases of moral feeling.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

The history of the world fails to show a higher, purer, and more unselfish class of men and women than those who found their way into those Negro schools.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

'So am I,—not because of the expense, but because I shall have much to think about, and many unexpected calls on my time.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

how they cause melancholy Parties affected in religious melancholy Passions and perturbations causes of melancholy; how they work on the body; their divisions; how rectified and eased Passions of lovers Patience a cure of misery Patient, his conditions that would be cured; patience, confidence, liberality, not to practise on himself; what he must do himself; reveal his grief to a friend Pennyroyal good against melancholy Perjury of lovers Persuasion a means to cure love-melancholy; other melancholy Phantasy, what Philippus Bonus, how he used a country fellow Q. Quantity of diet cause; cure of melancholy R. Rational soul Reading Scriptures good against melancholy Recreations good against melancholy Redness of the face helped Regions of the belly Relation or hearing a cause of love-melancholy Religious melancholy a distinct species its object; causes of it; symptoms; prognostics; cure; religious policy, by whom Repentance, its effects Retention and evacuation causes of melancholy; rectified to the cure Rich men's discontents and miseries; their prerogatives Riot in apparel, excess of it, a great cause of love-melancholy Rivers in love Rivals and co-rivals Roots censured Rose cross-men's or Rosicrucian's promises Philosophers censured; their errors Philters cause of love-melancholy; how they cure melancholy Phlebotomy cause of melancholy; how to be used, when, in melancholy; in head melancholy Phlegmatic melancholy signs Phrenzy's description Physician's miseries; his qualities if he be good Physic censured; commended; when to be used Physiognomical signs of melancholy Pictures good against melancholy; cause of love-melancholy Plague's effects Planets inhabited Plays more famous Pleasant palaces and gardens Pleasant objects of love Pleasing tone and voice a cause of love-melancholy Poetical cures of love-melancholy Poets why poor Poetry a symptom of lovers Politician's pranks Poor men's miseries; their happiness; they are dear to God Pope Leo Decimus, his scoffing Pork a melancholy meat Possession of devils Poverty and want causes of melancholy, their effects; no such misery to be poor Power of spirits Predestination misconstrued, a cause of despair Preparatives and purgers for melancholy Precedency, what stirs it causeth Precious stones, metals, altering melancholy Preventions to the cure of jealousy Pride and praise causes of melancholy Priests, how they cause religious melancholy Princes' discontents Prodigals, their miseries; bankrupts and spendthrifts, how punished Profitable objects of love Progress of love-melancholy exemplified Prognostics or events of love-melancholy; of despair; of jealousy; of melancholy Prospect good against melancholy Prosperity a cause of misery Protestations and deceitful promises of lovers Pseudoprophets, their pranks; their symptoms Pulse, peas, beans, cause of melancholy Pulse of melancholy men, how it is affected Pulse a sign of love-melancholy Purgers and preparatives to head melancholy Purging simples upward; downward Purging, how cause of melancholy S. Saints' aid rejected in melancholy Salads censured Sanguine melancholy signs Scholars' miseries Scilla or sea-onion, a purger of melancholy Scipio's continency Scoffs, calumnies, bitter jests, how they cause melancholy; their antidote Scorzonera, good against melancholy Scripture misconstrued, cause of religious melancholy; cure of melancholy Seasick, good physic for melancholy Self-love cause of melancholy, his effects Sensible soul and its parts Senses, why and how deluded in melancholy Sentences selected out of humane authors Servitude cause of melancholy; and imprisonment eased Several men's delights and recreations Severe tutors and guardians causes of melancholy Shame and disgrace how causes of melancholy, their effects Sickness for our good Sighs and tears symptoms of love-melancholy Sight a principal cause of love-melancholy Signs of honest love Similar parts of the body Simples censured proper to melancholy: fit to be known; purging melancholy upward; downward, purging simples Singing a symptom of lovers; cause of love-melancholy Sin the impulsive cause of man's misery Single life and virginity commended; their prerogatives Slavery of lovers Sleep and waking causes of melancholy; by what means procured, helped Small bodies have greatest wits Smelling what Smiling a cause of love-melancholy Sodomy Soldiers most part lascivious Solitariness cause of melancholy; coact, voluntary, how good; sign of melancholy Sorrow its effect; a cause of melancholy; a symptom of melancholy; eased by counsel Soul defined, its faculties; ex traduceations , as some hold Spices how causes of melancholy Spirits and devils, their nature; orders; kinds; power, &c. Spleen its site; how misaffected cause of melancholy Sports Spots in the sun Spruceness a symptom of lovers Stars, how causes or signs of melancholy; of love-melancholy; of jealousy Stepmother, her mischiefs Stews, why allowed Stomach distempered a cause of melancholy Stones like birds, beasts, fishes, &c. Strange nurses, when best Streets narrow Study overmuch cause of melancholy; why and how; study good against melancholy Subterranean devils Supernatural causes of melancholy Superstitious effects, symptoms; how it domineers Surfeiting and drunkenness taxed Suspicion and jealousy symptoms of melancholy; how caused Swallows, cuckoos, &c., where are they in winter Sweet tunes and singing causes of love-melancholy Symptoms or signs of melancholy in the body; mind; from stars, members; from education, custom, continuance of time, mixed with other diseases; symptoms of head melancholy; of hypochondriacal melancholy; of the whole body; symptoms of nuns', maids', widows' melancholy; immediate causes of melancholy symptoms; symptoms of love-melancholy; symptoms of a lover pleased; dejected; Symptoms of jealousy; of religious melancholy; of despair Synteresis Syrups T. Tale of a prebend Tarantula's stinging effects Taste what Temperament a cause of love-melancholy Tempestuous air, dark and fuliginous, how cause of melancholy Terrestrial devils Terrors and affrights cause melancholy Theologasters censured The best cure of love-melancholy is to let them, have their desire Tobacco approved, censured Toleration, religious Torments of love Transmigration of souls Travelling commended, good against melancholy; for love-melancholy especially Tutors cause melancholy U. Uncharitable men described Understanding defined, divided Unfortunate marriages' effects Unkind friends cause melancholy Unlawful cures of melancholy rejected Upstarts censured, their symptoms Urine of melancholy persons Uxorii V. Vainglory described a cause of melancholy Valour and courage caused by love Variation of the compass, where Variety of meats and dishes cause melancholy Variety of mistresses and objects a cure of melancholy Variety of weather, air, manners, countries, whence, &c. Variety of places, change of air, good against melancholy Vegetal soul and its faculties Vegetal creatures in love Veins described Venus rectified Venery a cause of melancholy Venison a melancholy meat Vices of women Violent misery continues not Violent death, event of love-melancholy; prognostic of despair; by some defended; how to be censured Virginity, by what signs to be known; commended Virtue and vice, principal habits of the will Vitex or agnus castus good against love-melancholy W. Waking cause of melancholy; a symptom; cured Walking, shooting, swimming, &c. good against melancholy Preface | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Notes 4414 .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

"It is farther to be observed, for the credit of this most useful class of men, that they commonly contribute, by their personal manners, no less than by the sale of their wares, to the refinement of the people among whom they travel.
— from The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 5 (of 8) by William Wordsworth

Fortunately, most artists have their fancies more under control; or, more properly speaking, they are aware that their visions are evoked by their own volition.
— from The Law of Psychic Phenomena A working hypothesis for the systematic study of hypnotism, spiritism, mental therapeutics, etc. by Thomson Jay Hudson

The Rocky Mts. or Great Continental Divide is a continuation of the famous Andes of South America, and jointly they form the longest and most uniform chain of mountains on the globe.
— from The Harris-Ingram Experiment by Charles E. (Charles Edward) Bolton

He first ascertained 97 the most useful combination of metals for specula, both in whiteness, porosity, and hardness, to be copper and tin.
— from Curiosities of Science, Past and Present A Book for Old and Young by John Timbs

“There is one thing you must do for me, senor,” he said quietly, “before we leave this most unhappy case of murder and theft for ever.”
— from The Green Mummy by Fergus Hume

The poor girl probably knew not that there were a sun and stars, towns and counties, a mighty universe composed of myriads of worlds.
— from The Underground City; Or, The Black Indies (Sometimes Called The Child of the Cavern) by Jules Verne

Generally speaking, flying dreams seem to [Pg 76] correspond to one of the most universal cravings of mankind: to liberate itself from the tyranny of the law of gravity and enjoy the freedom which winged creatures enjoy.
— from Psychoanalysis, Sleep and Dreams by André Tridon

I was humiliated, ashamed ... but, try as I would, the thought and vision of my uncle came on me like a palsy.
— from Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Harry Kemp

The Seamen and Marines of the Mermaid, under Captain Oliver, merit notice in having cut out and destroyed 9 vessels, under a fort near Cape Corsette.
— from An Historical Review of the Royal Marine Corps, from its Original Institution down to the Present Era, 1803 by Gillespie, Alexander, Major