This is the practical result of our fine systems of education.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Those whom last thou sawst In triumph and luxurious wealth, are they First seen in acts of prowess eminent And great exploits, but of true vertu void; Who having spilt much blood, and don much waste Subduing Nations, and achievd thereby Fame in the World, high titles, and rich prey, Shall change thir course to pleasure, ease, and sloth, 790 Surfet, and lust, till wantonness and pride Raise out of friendship hostil deeds in Peace.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

Those whom last thou sawst In triumph and luxurious wealth, are they First seen in acts of prowess eminent And great exploits, but of true vertu void; Who having spilt much blood, and don much waste Subduing Nations, and achievd thereby Fame in the World, high titles, and rich prey, Shall change thir course to pleasure, ease, and sloth, Surfet, and lust, till wantonness and pride Raise out of friendship hostil deeds in Peace.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

About this time, at the opening of a new railway line, many of the town, proud recipients of official favour, were invited by the Lieutenant-Governor to take the first trip.
— from The Hungry Stones, and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore

To whom thus Michael. Those, whom last thou sawest In triumph and luxurious wealth, are they First seen in acts of prowess eminent And great exploits, but of true virtue void; Who, having spilt much blood, and done much wast Subduing nations, and achieved thereby Fame in the world, high titles, and rich prey; Shall change their course to pleasure, ease, and sloth, Surfeit, and lust; till wantonness and pride Raise out of friendship hostile deeds in peace.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

The ruins were in no way majestic, but were probably relics of outlying fisher settlements, and only interesting because significant of the building zeal of the pre-Conquest Indians.
— from The American Egypt: A Record of Travel in Yucatan by Frederick J. Tabor Frost

The possessor of much knowledge is apt to forget, in his keen desire to acquire more, that he has not examined with sufficient care all the steps by which he has attained to what he has got, and that by placing reliance on one false step he has erected for himself a structure that cannot stand; or, what is worse perhaps, has prevented those who have followed him in implicit dependence on his attainments and fame from finding out the truth.
— from New Theories in Astronomy by Willam Stirling

In the figures, a is the Steam Cylinder-- b , the Steam Chest-- d , a handle for regulating the steam valve-- f , the starting bar g, g , tappets attached to the valve rod, which is moved by the contact of the arm e , on the piston rod with said tappets-- h , the double-acting water plunger working through a packing ring-- o, o , force valves-- o', o' , suction valves.
— from A Catechism of the Steam Engine by Bourne, John, C.E.

The same crest, a phœnix rising out of flames surmounting a ducal coronet, does duty for both achievements, but whereas the Duke of Somerset's supporters are a unicorn and a bull, the Marquess of Hertford has two blackamoors, which are blazoned—viz., "wreathed about the temples or, sa : habited in short golden [pg 77] garments; adorned about the waist with green and red feathers; each holding in his exterior hand a shield, az : garnished or, the dexter charged with the 'sun in splendour,' gold, the other with a crescent, silver.
— from Peeps at Heraldry by Phoebe Allen

"Pretty rotten of old Fortune, don't you think?"
— from If Winter Comes by A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth) Hutchinson

This influx was probably the result of the large amount of attention that for some years prior to 1888 had been directed to these Colonies, which were brought into prominence by such events as the passing of the first Federal Council Act by the Imperial Parliament in 1885, the Colonial and Indian Exhibition held in London in 1886, and the Imperial { 248} Conference in 1887; it was also much stimulated by the lowering in 1888 of the interest on the British Public Debt, and pro rata on other first-class British securities.
— from Australasian Democracy by Henry de Rosenbach Walker