[Pg 36] have practically almost ceased to exist) do not close any career to the disqualified person in case of conversion.
— from The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

She taught her pupil, who was one half bigger than herself, to speak French very tolerably, and to practice a certain time every day.
— from The Laird of Norlaw; A Scottish Story by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

"You are her sister, perhaps?" asks Cyril, the extreme deference of his whole manner taking from the rudeness of his questioning.
— from Airy Fairy Lilian by Duchess

For this purpose it is advisable to consecrate certain times, preferably a certain time each day, to self-recollection; to dedicate an hour—or a half-hour, if no more can be spared—to seeing one's life in all its relations; that is, as the poet has put it, to seeing life "steadily and seeing it whole."
— from The Essentials of Spirituality by Felix Adler

I think you love me, and wish me well; and I tell you sincerely, it imports much and deeply to my peace and comfort, that Eugenie de Menancourt should yield me a willing consent."
— from One in a Thousand; or, The Days of Henri Quatre by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Such designations would puzzle a conjuror to elucidate, did not contemporary persons exist to afford a clue to them.
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 3 (of 3) Everlasting Calerdar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone

To Ruis, Fausta was the most perfect of playmates, a comrade that each day brought him some fresh surprise.
— from A Transient Guest, and Other Episodes by Edgar Saltus

Is it possible that Galileo ascertained the mechanical principles of "Virtual Velocity," the laws of falling bodies and of all motion; that Copernicus ascertained the true position of the earth and accounted for all celestial phenomena; that Kepler discovered his three laws—discoveries of such importance that the 8th of May, 1618, may be called the birthday of modern science; that Newton gave to the world the Method of Fluxions, the Theory of Universal Gravitation, and the Decomposition of Light; that Euclid, Cavalieri, Descartes, and Leibnitz, almost completed the science of mathematics; that all the discoveries in optics, hydrostatics, pneumatics and chemistry, the experiments, discoveries, and inventions of Galvani, Volta, Franklin and Morse, of Trevethick, Watt and Fulton and of all the pioneers of progress—that all this was accomplished by uninspired men, while the writer of the Pentateuch was directed and inspired by an infinite God?
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

What will you think when I say that what you call presentiments are common to every delicately organized person?
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 15, No. 90, June, 1875 by Various