Even before Miss Taylor had ceased to hold the nominal office of governess, the mildness of her temper had hardly allowed her to impose any restraint; and the shadow of authority being now long passed away, they had been living together as friend and friend very mutually attached, and Emma doing just what she liked; highly esteeming Miss Taylor's judgment, but directed chiefly by her own.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

And that in that very order of things, in which they are described in the Janua Latinæ Linguæ ; and with that fulness, that nothing very necessary or of great concernment is omitted.
— from The Orbis Pictus by Johann Amos Comenius

In those days it was to the interest of a man, not only of generosity but even of prudence, to make display of no more passion than he really had.
— from On Love by Stendhal

Note 15 ( return ) [ For Poland, I am content with the Sarmatia Asiatica et Europæa of Matthew à Michou, or De Michoviâ, a canon and physician of Cracow, (A.D. 1506,) inserted in the Novus Orbis of Grynæus.
— 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

Let there be many names of one goddess, and let there not be as many goddesses as there are names.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

None of our gentlemen had the smallest pretensions to a literary taste, except Mr. Hargrave; and he, at present, was quite contented with the newspapers and periodicals of the day.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

And now, Sanchica, see that the gentleman is comfortable; put up his horse, and get some eggs out of the stable, and cut plenty of bacon, and let's give him his dinner like a prince; for the good news he has brought, and his own bonny face deserve it all; and meanwhile I'll run out and give the neighbours the news of our good luck, and father curate, and Master Nicholas the barber, who are and always have been such friends of thy father's."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Having continued in Great Britain and Ireland nearly two years, and being about to return to America—not as I left it, a [301] slave, but a freeman—leading friends of the cause of emancipation in that country intimated their intention to make me a testimonial, not only on grounds of personal regard to myself, but also to the cause to which they were so ardently devoted.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

Aguilar, however, made another attempt to bring about peace, and obtain us permission to take in fresh water, barter for provisions, and incline them to listen to the disclosures we came to make in the name of our God.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

I was never overfond o' gentlefolks's servants—they're mostly like the fine ladies' fat dogs, nayther good for barking nor butcher's meat, but on'y for show.”
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

The Diary of John Adams reveals Franklin and himself dining on one occasion with La Duchesse d'Enville, and [Pg 487] "twenty of the great people of France," on another with M. Chalut, one of the farmers-general, and the old Marshal Richelieu, and "a vast number of other great company," on another with the Prince de Tingry, Duc de Beaumont, of the illustrious House of Montmorency, and on another with La Duchesse d'Enville, along with her daughter and granddaughter, and dukes, abbots and the like so numerous that the list ends with a splutter of et ceteras.
— from Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed, Volume 1 (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce

I took the matter to the Lord and was soon confirmed in the belief that our marriage was not ordained of God.
— from Birth of a Reformation; Or, The Life and Labors of Daniel S. Warner by A. L. (Andrew L.) Byers

It had become so with the last bulge in the stock-market, and now hardly a Sunday passed without some paper covering a page with the story of this newest of our great fortunes, of its marvellous growth and its present lucky owner.
— from Mrs. Radigan: Her Biography, with that of Miss Pearl Veal, and the Memoirs of J. Madison Mudison by Nelson Lloyd

Well, father, you see, perhaps just as he was leaving the house a dog may have barked, or something may have given him a scare, and he may just have hidden them in the ground, intending to come for them next day; and then, what with the excitement and the police here, and the search that was being made, he could get no opportunity of getting them up again, and being afraid of being arrested himself for his share in the poaching affray, he dared not hang about here any longer, but probably went down to Plymouth and got on board ship there.
— from The Curse of Carne's Hold: A Tale of Adventure by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

None of our guesses ever stuck to him, and we had grown weary of rediscovering that anything so simple could also be so impermeable to our ingenuity.
— from The Collectors Being Cases mostly under the Ninth and Tenth Commandments by Frank Jewett Mather

A violation, not only of good faith, but of justice to the numerous Colonists who adhered to connection with the Mother Country; proofs and illustrations.
— from The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816 by Egerton Ryerson

No occurrence of green Feldspar in that region is now known.
— from Birds and Nature, Vol. 12 No. 2 [July 1902] Illustrated by Color Photography by Various

Walter Davis, a mechanic having a shop near our office, granted him the use of his tools, and likewise assisted him in making the model of a miniature vessel with the arrangement as above described.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

It was a strange house with no one on guard at such a time.
— from With Force and Arms: A Tale of Love and Salem Witchcraft by Howard Roger Garis

Besides, have we not the extraordinary description not only of ghostly people but of ghostly scenery (the latter is quite a new departure to me) in that astonishing book An Adventure , of which "the Publishers guarantee that the authors have put down what happened to them as faithfully and accurately as was in their power.
— from A Leisurely Tour in England by James John Hissey