It will probably be conceded that it is desirable people should exercise their understandings, and that an intelligent following of custom, or even occasionally an intelligent deviation from custom, is better than a blind and simply mechanical adhesion to it.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

I shall have occasion to speak of it repeatedly; and to lay before the reader some entire treatises upon the subject.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

Nothing ever came so easily to us.
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore

We screw every thing up to that.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

This sound, so easy to us, is a great stumbling-block to other nations.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

“During the arrangement of pecuniary matters, a young lady should endeavor to understand what is going on, receiving it in a right spirit.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

From whence it commeth to passe, that when the exercise of the Power layd by, is for the publique safety to be resumed, it hath the resemblance of as unjust act; which disposeth great numbers of men (when occasion is presented) to rebell; In the same manner as the bodies of children, gotten by diseased parents, are subject either to untimely death, or to purge the ill quality, derived from their vicious conception, by breaking out into biles and scabbs.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

The next day Emile returns somewhat earlier than usual and in a state of some anxiety.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

—Hardy throughout New England; prefers a rich, moist, loamy soil, but grows in any well-drained situation; easily transplanted, usually obtainable in nurseries, and can be collected successfully.
— from Handbook of the Trees of New England by Henry M. (Henry Mason) Brooks

Her stolid eyes twinkled under their heavy brows when Nancy explained, tremblingly, how she had brought the basket back; her mother would not let her buy it on Sunday.
— from Young Lucretia and Other Stories by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

There were Christian slaves to succour, exposed to unutterable indignities and cruel punishment, even unto crucifixion for conscience’ sake.
— from The Catacombs of Rome, and Their Testimony Relative to Primitive Christianity by W. H. (William Henry) Withrow

Some explain their use of the third person as follows:—" It is the body; it is I who am the spirit."
— from Reincarnation: A Study in Human Evolution by Théophile Pascal

The details set forth in the report of the Secretary evince the urgent need for immediate legislative action.
— from State of the Union Addresses by Abraham Lincoln