At their death, the most moderate funeral is best, neither exceeding the customary expense, nor yet falling short of the honour which has been usually shown by the former generation to their parents.
— from Laws by Plato

Foreign nations, especially the commercial European nations, are constantly at war, and are constantly interrupting their packet service.
— from Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post by Thomas Rainey

His mind would, not, as hitherto, answer to his call with new expedients to circumvent each new check; he felt benumbed, and sought to that decanter--in his dressing-room for the strength, ingenuity, and courage he had theretofore found within himself.
— from A Rich Man's Relatives (Vol. 2 of 3) by Robert Cleland

He seems (eventually), however, to have admitted the visibility of the four satellites through the telescope; but he argues, that as they are invisible to the naked eye, they can exercise no influence on the earth; and being useless they do not exist."
— from Scientific Studies; or, Practical, in Contrast with Chimerical Pursuits by Henry Dircks

No evil thing comes ever nigh To hurt her sweet tranquillity.
— from Kate Greenaway by M. H. (Marion Harry) Spielmann

He seems, however, to have admitted the visibility of the four satellites through the telescope; but he argues, that as they are invisible to the naked eye, they can exercise no influence on the earth; and being useless, they do not therefore exist.
— from The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler by David Brewster