This expressed his own feeling, for although he was entirely convinced that only a radical reform would do, he questioned whether the time had yet arrived, and whether things had become bad enough, to make such a reform either possible or lasting.
— from George Washington, Volume II by Henry Cabot Lodge

I told them however that I would gladly receive either provisions or leather when we met and would pay for them by notes on the North-West Company's post; but to prevent any misunderstanding with Mr. Weeks I requested them to take their winter's collection of furs to Fort Providence before they went to the Copper-Mine River.
— from The Journey to the Polar Sea by John Franklin

His aloofness, haughtiness and chilliness of temper precluded him from a really effective part or lot in the faction which he led, and ruled with a rod of iron, and, for himself, he had not sufficient spirits and imagination to carve out an independent and statesmanlike policy.
— from The Wild Irishman by T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson) Crosland

Tant qu'ils restent en place on les honore; mais, quand leurs trois mois sont expirés, chacun retourne à son état.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III by Richard Hakluyt

You have seen that a convex mirror, by reflection, converts parallel rays into divergent rays; rays that fall upon the mirror divergent, are rendered still more so by reflection, and convergent rays are reflected either parallel, or less convergent.
— from Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained by Mrs. (Jane Haldimand) Marcet

It is alike the business of the sun and of the soul to radiate every particle of light that they can muster.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, June 1885, No. 9 by Chautauqua Institution

I cannot read either philosophers or learned men; there would, therefore, be left to me" (she meant to say, to her sex) "quite too little, if one should take from me the dear poets."
— from Hesperus; or, Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography. Vol. I. by Jean Paul