This is the final study of the philosopher, and you expect to make it the first lesson of the child!
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I had not been married eight months when you suspected me of every perfidiousness, and you even told me so.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

But as it is, every one of you allows his wife to carry everything out of his house to the Galilaeans, and when your wives feed the poor at your expense they inspire a great admiration for godlessness in those who are in need of such bounty—and of such sort are, I think, the great majority of mankind,—while as for yourselves you think that you are doing nothing out of the way when in the first place you are careless of the honours due to the gods, and not one of those in need goes near the temples—for there is nothing there, I think, to feed them with—and yet when any one of you gives a birthday feast he provides a dinner and a breakfast without stint and welcomes his friends to a costly table; when, however, the annual festival arrived no one furnished olive oil for a lamp for the god, or a libation, or a beast for sacrifice, or incense.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

present:—but I'll curb my rage; Allow me to proceed, and you engage To hear the rest:—he word has also sent, That as to-day he knew my husband went On business to his cottage in the wood, Where he would sleep the night, he understood, No sooner should the servants be in bed, And Morpheus' robe be o'er their senses spread, But to my dressing room he would repair:— What can he hope, such project to declare?
— from Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Complete by Jean de La Fontaine

No, my lad, we can prove nothing; we simply take the ground that you didn't do it; that he was a threatened man and unpopular with his hands; and there is not a shadow of proof against you except the fact that he had ill treated you just before.”
— from Through the Fray: A Tale of the Luddite Riots by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

who practise not what they preach, and yet expect to be believed.”
— from The Prime Minister by William Henry Giles Kingston

fathome of wampam be payed at y e times appoynted, and y e differences betweexte themselves & Uncass be heard & ordered, and till these artickles be under writen at Boston, by Jenemo & Wipetock.
— from Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts by William Bradford

Our limited space will not allow of our going more fully into the details of painting; but we hope that these directions will give some idea of how to make a beginning as a painter in oil-colors, and after you have made a start you will find two good professors at your elbow to help you along and encourage you—Prof. Judgment and Prof. Experience.
— from How to Amuse Youself and Others: The American Girl's Handy Book by Lina Beard

Thus God has fenced and secured from abuse the power of the parent; and yet even the parent has been known, in a moment of passion, to be cruel to his child.
— from Slavery by William Ellery Channing

Proposition 4. —Whenever the pressure at Yarmouth exceeds that at Valentia, while there is equality of pressure at Nairn and Brest, the winds of the British Isles are southerly .
— from Weather Warnings for Watchers by Anonymous

He danced up and down a few paces and yelled, either to bewilder or to impress us, and I was conscious of a grim amusement, while Steel watched him narrowly.
— from The Mistress of Bonaventure by Harold Bindloss

It is somewhat remarkable that Banckes’ Herbal, though originally published a year earlier than the first edition of the Grete Herball, shows a slight but distinct superiority in the matter of description (see p. 38).
— from Herbals, Their Origin and Evolution: A Chapter in the History of Botany 1470-1670 by Agnes Robertson Arber