The wisdom of encouraging a little harmless pride in personal appearance even among the blind, or the whimsical absurdity of considering charity and leather breeches inseparable companions, as we do, requires no comment.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

Conybeare’s (Dean) Essay on Church Parties, reprinted from the Edinburgh Review , No. CC., October, 1853, 12mo.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

To smell, though well, is to stink: “Rides nos, Coracine, nil olentes Malo, quam bene olere, nil olere.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Nature was the same, as when she was the kind mother of the human race; now, childless and forlorn, her fertility was a mockery; her loveliness a mask for deformity.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Then the people saw their own countrymen in the higher ranks of the army, their general officers fighting beside the heroes of Spain and sharing their laurels, begrudged neither character, reputation nor consideration; then fidelity and attachment to Spain, love of the fatherland, made of the [ 48 ] native, encomendero 1 and even general, as during the English invasion; then there had not yet been invented the insulting and ridiculous epithets with which recently the most laborious and painful achievements of the native leaders have been stigmatized; not then had it become the fashion to insult and slander in stereotyped phrase, in newspapers and books published with governmental and superior ecclesiastical approval, the people that paid, fought and poured out its blood for the Spanish name, nor was it considered either noble or witty to offend a whole race, which was forbidden to reply or defend itself; and if there were religious hypochondriacs who in the leisure of their cloisters dared to write against it, as did the Augustinian [ 49 ] Gaspar de San Agustin and the Jesuit Velarde, their loathsome abortions never saw the light, and still less were they themselves rewarded with miters and raised to high offices.
— from The Philippines a Century Hence by José Rizal

For the same reason, none can abrogate a Law made, but the Soveraign; because a Law is not abrogated, but by another Law, that forbiddeth it to be put in execution.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

“Monsignor,” I replied, “nothing can be done well without time, and that is why I have not dared to shew to your eminence an answer to the sonnet which I have written in half an hour.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Thus they grumble, mutter, and repine: not considering that inconstancy of human affairs, judicially conferring one condition with another, or well weighing their own present estate.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Opinions were divided as to the fitness of [ 408 ] receiving such an applicant, but it was finally decided that, if a man repented, he was a fit person to be received into the Lingāyat fold, as the linga recognises no caste.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

"Right now, Chemisant City's almost twice as far from here as Atronics City.
— from The Risk Profession by Donald E. Westlake

The Federal officers who acted in a gentlemanly manner toward the non-combatants were accused by their rude fellows and by ruder newspaper correspondents of being “wound round the fingers of the rebel women,” who had some object to gain.
— from Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama by Walter L. (Walter Lynwood) Fleming

Must no dislike alarm, no wishes rise, No cries invoke the mercies of the skies?
— from Historical Manual of English Prosody by George Saintsbury

And thyrdely; I shoulde lese my name, For this worde fortune is well derifyde Of an accydent chaunge, both good or shame, Whan that the deade is so exemplifyde; Wherfore by reason I must be duplifyde; And nothing stable in myne hye werke, As wryteth many a ryght noble clerke.
— from The Pastime of Pleasure: An Allegorical Poem by Stephen Hawes

They were the Centurion of sixty guns, four hundred men, George Anson, Esq., commander; the Gloucester of fifty guns, three hundred men, Richard Norris, commander; the Severn of fifty guns, three hundred men, the Honourable Edward Legg, commander; the Pearl of forty guns, two hundred and fifty men, Matthew Mitchel, commander; the Wager of twenty-eight guns, one hundred and sixty men, Dandy Kidd, commander; and the Tryal sloop of eight guns, one hundred men, the Honourable John Murray, commander; the two victuallers were pinks, the largest of about four hundred, and the other of about two hundred tons burthen.
— from A Voyage Round the World in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV by Anson, George Anson, Baron

Pat., 297,187 (Society oc Chemical Industry, Basle), such compounds are obtained when, for instance, sodium sulphanilide in alkaline solution acts upon nitrotoluenesulphochloride, and the resulting nitrotoluenesulphamino compound is subsequently reduced with acetic acid and iron.
— from Synthetic Tannins, Their Synthesis, Industrial Production and Application by Georg Grasser

And often there is no rest, no cessation from a conflict that has left us helpless, so that for us love is moulded round a core of diseased desires.
— from Motherhood and the Relationships of the Sexes by C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine) Hartley

FOOTNOTE [B] "Stolones repunt non caulis florifer, cui folia ovalia, et minime cordata.
— from The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 01 Or, Flower-Garden Displayed by William Curtis