O may no son the father's honour stain, Nor ever daughter give the mother pain! H2 anchor Epitaph On A Lap-Dog Named Echo In wood and wild, ye warbling throng, Your heavy loss deplore; Now, half extinct your powers of song, Sweet Echo is no more.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

The Old South still exists in nooks and corners of many States, it is true: there are communities, counties, groups of counties, which cling to the old ideas.
— from The New South: A Chronicle of Social and Industrial Evolution by Holland Thompson

And why?—because Owen still sees ends in nature, and by his inclination to the acceptance of a descent, does not allow himself to Page 165 [165] be prevented from giving adhesion to a teleological view of the world.
— from The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality by Rudolf Schmid

For them a Gilbert-Scott politician, reverential restorer of bygone styles, enthusiastic to conserve and amend the grotesque Gothic policies of the past, rather than some Brunel or Stephenson statesman, engineering in novel mastery of circumstances—not fearful to face and conquer even the antique impediments of Nature.
— from Ginx's Baby: His Birth and Other Misfortunes; a Satire by Edward Jenkins

Some sort of study or some special experience is necessary to the enjoyment of such a set.
— from The Old Bachelor: A Comedy by William Congreve

Circumstances are compulsory from the absence of a power to resist or control them: and if this absence likewise be the effect of Circumstance (that is, if it have been neither directly nor indirectly caused by the agent himself) the evil derives from the circumstances; and therefore (in the Apostle's sense of the word, sin, when he speaks of the exceeding sinfulness of sin) such evil is not sin ; and the person who suffers it, or who is the compelled instrument of its infliction on others, may feel regret , but cannot feel remorse .
— from Aids to Reflection; and, The Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

—That those guilty of the transgression should suffer, seems only just; but that an innocent being who had no part in the sin—no voice in the time or manner of its advent into the world—that such a one should suffer equally, if not more bitterly, with the transgressors themselves, seems anything but just.
— from Plain Facts for Old and Young by John Harvey Kellogg