The mere statement of such a proposition is enough to refute it, and we need give no further attention to an intellectualist fallacy so venerable and so completely inconsistent with experience.
— from Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War by W. (Wilfred) Trotter

The quality of any particular wine is solely dependent upon the season, but the produce of any given vineyard should surely possess, as he remarks, a distinctive CACHET, by which the palate is enabled to recognise it.
— from The Art of Living in Australia Together with Three Hundred Australian Cookery Recipes and Accessory Kitchen Information by Mrs. H. Wicken by Philip E. Muskett

To work, says a contemporary philosopher, is easy; to repose is difficult.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 17, April, 1873 to September, 1873 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

Or by taking about a quart of the suspected liquor, and pouring it into a retort, or small still, and boiling it gently, until the whole of the spirituous part is evaporated, the residuum, if capsicum, grains of paradise, &c. have been present in the liquor, will retain a hot pungent taste.
— from Deadly Adulteration and Slow Poisoning Unmasked Disease and Death in the Pot and Bottle by Anonymous

We therefore could not afford to lose much time in an attempt to call at Norfolk Island; three weeks, however, we persevered in endeavouring to reach it, and had arrived within twenty-five leagues of it, when the wind set in strong from the eastward.
— from An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island by John Hunter

When, by repeating the process, most of the Pb is eliminated, the rest is oxidized by heating in the air.
— from An Introduction to Chemical Science by Rufus P. (Rufus Phillips) Williams

The moment had then come to put the project into execution, to reconnoitre if the savages were still in the island, and to see what they were doing.
— from Godfrey Morgan: A Californian Mystery by Jules Verne

But since the principle is established, the rest is mere detail.”
— from The Moon Metal by Garrett Putman Serviss