In possessing Schopenhauer the world possesses a personality the richer; a somewhat garrulous personality it may be; a curiously whimsical and sensitive personality, full of quite ordinary superstitions, of extravagant vanities, selfish, at times violent, rarely generous; a man whom during his lifetime nobody quite knew, an isolated creature, self-absorbed, solely concerned in his elaboration of the explanation of the world, and possessing subtleties which for the most part escaped the perception of his fellows; at once a hermit and a boulevardier.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

But Lavvy, with the suddenness of her former desertion, now bounced over to the other enemy: very sharply remarking, 'Don't patronize me , Ma, because I can take care of myself.'
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

As the commodities exchanged, too, are supposed to be of equal value, so the two capitals employed in the trade will, upon most occasions, be equal, or very nearly equal; and both being employed in raising the native commodities of the two countries, the revenue and maintenance which their distribution will afford to the inhabitants of each will be equal, or very nearly equal.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

A fair, new, and strong frame of timber, covered with lead, was therefore set up at the charges of the city, near to the west corner of St. Nicholas’ shambles, for the meal to be weighed, in the 1st of Edward VI., Sir John Gresham being then mayor.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

Our English villages suffered very much.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

‘Alpheum fama est huc Elidis amnem Occultas egisse vias subter mare, qui nunc Ore, Arethusa, tuo Siculis confunditur undis.’ — Vergil.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Cardan, the mathematician, wrote about it in 1550, and Wallis in 1693; while it is said still to be found in obscure English villages (sometimes deposited in strange places, such as a church belfry), made of iron, and appropriately called "tiring-irons," and to be used by the Norwegians to-day as a lock for boxes and bags.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

She is else quite free from that disagreeable tragical hiccup so epidemical in France, and so awkwardly returning at the end of every verse; she never shakes so affectedly her head, as some others, in what you call the graceful style, forsooth; and she alone may venture some bold strokes, which would never do else with so well-bred, so elegant an audience.
— from Queens of the French Stage by H. Noel (Hugh Noel) Williams

Of Schiller's descendants there were present on the occasion, his eldest son and eldest daughter, and the widow of Ernst von Schiller.
— from International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science — Volume 1, No. 2, July 8, 1850 by Various

His standpoint is the same which the young Goethe had adopted when he intervened with Herder for “German style and art,” and dedicated his pamphlet on German architecture to the shade of Erwin von Steinbach.
— from The History of Modern Painting, Volume 1 (of 4) Revised edition continued by the author to the end of the XIX century by Richard Muther

Alpheum fama est hue Elidis amnem Occultas egisse vias subter mare; qui nunc Ore, Arethusa, tuo Siculis confunditur undis."
— from The Greek Romances of Heliodorus, Longus and Achilles Tatius Comprising the Ethiopics; or, Adventures of Theagenes and Chariclea; The pastoral amours of Daphnis and Chloe; and the loves of Clitopho and Leucippe by of Emesa Heliodorus

Although we can not descend into the subterranean regions where volcanic heat is developed, we can observe in regions of extinct volcanoes, such as Auvergne and Tuscany, hundreds of springs, both cold and thermal, flowing out from granite and other rocks, and having their waters plentifully charged with carbonate of lime.
— from The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

In principle, it should be observed, the [Pg 47] assumption of such substitutions seems to be absolutely necessary, unless we are prepared to deny that any old poems or even verses survived the period of apocope.
— from The Heroic Age by H. Munro (Hector Munro) Chadwick