In the second place, the earth would appear thirteen times as large to a spectator on the moon as the moon appears to us, and would afford nearly the same proportion of light, so that their long nights must be continually cheered by an extraordinary degree of light derived from this source; and if the full moon is hailed by our poets as "refulgent lamp of night," [10] with how much more reason might a lunarian exult thus, in view of the splendid orb that adorns his nocturnal sky!
— from Letters on Astronomy in which the Elements of the Science are Familiarly Explained in Connection with Biographical Sketches of the Most Eminent Astronomers by Denison Olmsted

Here, as he tells in that most amusing autobiography of his, he spent several years in acquiring a profound ignorance of whatever he was meant to learn; and he came away a stranger not only to the humanities, but to any one language, speaking a barbarous mixture of French and Piedmontese, and reading little or nothing.
— from Modern Italian Poets; Essays and Versions by William Dean Howells

But the leader of that mission informs me that its blessings are questionable, in that it tends to demoralize the people and renders little or no aid to their spiritual work.
— from India's Problem, Krishna or Christ by John P. (John Peter) Jones