The point is so small, and as a rule, the property owner makes no objections, but it must be granted that he has the right to do so.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

We must pardon children, because of their age; poets, because they profess to follow implicitly the suggestions of their fancy: But what excuse shall we find to justify our philosophers in so signal a weakness?
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

——The authority of Philostorgius is so suspicious, as not to be sufficient to establish this fact, which Gibbon has inserted in his history as certain, while in the note he appears to doubt it.—G.]
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

But most part I say, such as are aptest to love that are young and lusty, live at ease, stall-fed, free from cares, like cattle in a rank pasture, idle and solitary persons, they must needs hirquitullire , as Guastavinius recites out of Censorinus.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

But this, Planchet, is so serious and important that I have not informed my friends that I would entrust this secret to you; and for a captain’s commission I would not write it.”
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

It is wrong therefore to wish to make political institutions so strong as to render it impossible to suspend their operation.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

After eggs and bacon, it says, “Work!” After beefsteak and porter, it says, “Sleep!” After a cup of tea (two spoonsful for each cup, and don’t let it stand more than three minutes), it says to the brain, “Now, rise, and show your strength.
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

The line between the two cannot be sharply drawn: but we may define ‘impulsive’ actions as those where the connexion between the feeling that prompts and the action prompted is so simple and immediate that, though intention is distinctly present, the consciousness of personal choice of the intended result is evanescent.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

depressus , in the same individual, there were only three teeth on one side of the mouth and five on the other; the lower main teeth are laterally double, but generally one tooth of each pair is so small and obscure as to be perceived with difficulty.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2) The Balanidæ, (or Sessile Cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc., etc. by Charles Darwin

"Not to all, but to a few," he answered; "yet it will be heard of by all of them; for kindness and sympathy from any one, especially from a foreign prince, is so strange an event that it will fly from lip to ear.
— from The Pillar of Fire; or, Israel in Bondage by J. H. (Joseph Holt) Ingraham

But when Mellish followed on the same side, he set his points in so strong a light, and placed his contention on so solid a basis, that even Cairns’s speech was forgotten, and it seemed impossible that any answer could be found to Mellish’s arguments.
— from Studies in Contemporary Biography by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount

The President [ in shirt sleeves ] Are you forgetting to whom you are speaking?
— from Woman on Her Own, False Gods and The Red Robe Three Plays By Brieux by Eugène Brieux

If, on the contrary, he does not marry, perhaps I shall, so as to prevent our race from becoming extinct.
— from The Corsican Brothers by Alexandre Dumas

Its plan is somewhat singular, as a portion of the history of England is given on one page, and a general sketch of the contemporaneous history of Europe on the opposite page.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

Put sugar and water into saucepan, stir till boiling, add cream of tartar, then boil until it forms soft ball when tried in cold water, or 240° F.; pour on to stiffly beaten whites of eggs, pouring in steady stream and very slowly, adding while beating vanilla, raisins, nuts, and figs, beat until thick and divide between and on top of cake.
— from The Story of Crisco by Marion Harris Neil