Phene, undeveloped in mind and heart, the easily duped agent of a cruel trick, appeals to us by her slow, incredulous, but eager response to goodness and aspiration, the tremulous opening of her soul to love.
— from Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Robert Browning

Besides an inscription in Burmese characters it has a sentence in bad English running thus:— "This bell is made by Koonalinnguhjah the priest, and the weight 600 viss.
— from Musical Myths and Facts, Volume 1 (of 2) by Carl Engel

These details Odo learned the next day from Alfieri; who went on to say that, owing to the increased vigilance of the government, and to the banishment of several distinguished men accused by the Church of heretical or seditious opinions, the Honey-Bees had of late been obliged to hold their meetings secretly, it being even rumoured that Vivaldi, who was their president, had resigned his professorship and withdrawn behind the shelter of literary employment in order to elude the observation of the authorities.
— from The Valley of Decision by Edith Wharton

The new world is dedicated to the cause of liberty, and from that good seed is now springing forth fruit an hundred fold; the progress of civilization, of knowledge, of virtue, and happiness in the United States, is, by every recent traveller there, proved to be immense.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 334, October 4, 1828 by Various

[Pg 503] unfetters the mind from prejudices of every kind, and leaves it open to every impression of a higher nature, which it is susceptible of receiving; guarding only against enthusiasm and self-deception by a habit of strict investigation, but encouraging, rather than suppressing, every thing that can offer a prospect or hope beyond the present obscure and unsatisfactory state.
— from The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Edward Hitchcock

Rays are split into b, e, reflected, then as e,
— from Inventors at Work, with Chapters on Discovery by George Iles

Another picture, Humanity chained by the wrists and ankles in slavery, its blind eyes raining tears, but with the light of Eternity like an aureole behind its head, is seen waiting, waiting, with an endless and most painful patience, for some final deliverance.
— from William Blake: A Study of His Life and Art Work by Irene Langridge

Shall it be enabled recklessly to increase its issues, and so produce a depreciated paper-currency?”
— from Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative; Vol. 3 of 3 Library Edition (1891), Containing Seven Essays not before Republished, and Various other Additions. by Herbert Spencer

No doubt, the testimony of natural reason, on whatever exercised, must of necessity stop short of those truths which it is the object of revelation to make known; but, while it places the existence and principal attributes of a Deity on such grounds as to render doubt impossible, it unquestionably opposes no natural or necessary obstacle to further progress: on the contrary, by cherishing as a vital principle an unbounded spirit of enquiry, and ardency of expectation, it unfetters 8 the mind from prejudices of every kind, and leaves it open and free to every impression of a higher nature which it is susceptible of receiving, guarding only against enthusiasm and self-deception by a habit of strict investigation, but encouraging, rather than suppressing, every thing that can offer a prospect or a hope beyond the present obscure and unsatisfactory state.
— from Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy by John F. W. (John Frederick William) Herschel