Employers can testify, from all sides, that there is a striking general difference between those bred up in ignorance and rude vulgarity, and those who have been trained through the well-ordered schools for the humble classes, especially when the habits at home have been subsidiary; a difference exceedingly in favor of the latter, who are found not only more apt at understanding and executing, but more decorous, more respectful, more attentive to orders, more ready to see and acknowledge the propriety of good regulations, and more disposed to a practical acquiescence in them; far less inclined to ebriety and low company; and more to be depended on in point of honesty.
— from An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance by John Foster

A cruder piece of ground, ruder and more dismal in its unsightly holes, could not be found; and yet, because of the reed-grass, it is made as it were full of thought.
— from The Open Air by Richard Jefferies

Speaking of the Indians, he tells how they settled around the cabins of the whites at Alki until there were perhaps a thousand, and relates this incident: “On one occasion during the winter, Nelson (Chief Pialse) came with a party of Green River and Muckilshoot Indians, and got into an altercation with John Kanem and the Snoqualmies.
— from Blazing the Way; Or, True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound by Emily Inez Denny

Was it possible, that, by the possession of great riches, a man could commit crime with impunity?
— from The Stretton Street Affair by William Le Queux

That principle, stated broadly, was exclusion from the presence of God, relieved and made hopeful by the admission of representatives.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus by G. A. (George Alexander) Chadwick

The same name, however, came afterwards to be applied to lyric pieces of greater research and more elevated character, if they were divided into strophes.
— from History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 1 of 2) by Friedrich Bouterwek

Upon the death of Alexander, the greater part of Greece revolted against Macedon, Athens, as of old, being the leader.
— from A Manual of Ancient History by M. E. (Mary Elsie) Thalheimer

"A style founded upon ordinary nature, such as we see every day, is certainly ill-fitted to subjects of the above elevated description; and should it be objected, as a consequence of this fact, that such subjects are therefore not the proper subjects for painting at all, may it not be asked, what is then to be said of many of the greatest works of Michelangiolo, of several of those of Raffaelle, of the admired performances of Giulio Romano at Mantua, and of many of the most extensive compositions even of Rubens?
— from The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume 1 (of 3) by Henry Fuseli

On the other hand, the phenomena of gravitation remain a mystery.
— from The New Physics and Its Evolution by Lucien Poincaré