And She lamented that her domestic affairs, as well as the multitude of business which his situation must of necessity impose upon him, would in future deprive her of the pleasure of his visits.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

The secret motive of Narses, in this delay, had been to collect such a military force as might enable him, though sincerely desirous of peace, to negotiate with the greater weight and dignity.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

To have exceeded the sum given for the civil list, and to have incurred a debt without special authority of Parliament, was prima facie , a criminal act: as such, ministers ought naturally rather to have withdrawn it from the inspection, than to have exposed it to the scrutiny of Parliament.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

The savage fierceness which they had brought from the snowy mountains of Norway was refined, without being corrupted, in a warmer climate; the companions of Rollo insensibly mingled with the natives; they imbibed the manners, language, and gallantry, of the French nation; and in a martial age, the Normans might claim the palm of valor and glorious achievements.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

He knew very well that this was Napoleon, but Napoleon’s presence could no more intimidate him than Rostóv’s, or a sergeant major’s with the rods, would have done, for he had nothing that either the sergeant major or Napoleon could deprive him of.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

First of all, it must be realised that the natives firmly believe in the value of magic, and that this conviction, when put to the test of their actions, is quite unwavering, even nowadays when so much of native belief and custom has been undermined.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

There was as yet no philosophy demanding unity in the Cosmos, or forbidding man to hold as accursed so much of nature as did not obviously accord with his ideals.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

" In that same month of November a satirical journal, charged with calumniating the President of the Republic, was sentenced to fine and imprisonment for a caricature depicting a shooting-gallery and Louis Bonaparte using the Constitution as a target.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

I would not here be supposed to have said, that our learned Men of either Robe who have been whipped at School, are not still Men of noble and liberal Minds; but I am sure they had been much more so than they are, had they never suffered that Infamy.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Bullies are generally stupid fellows, and in the eyes of such men one “nigger” was much the same as another, and the faithful brown servants had to suffer for the sins of the Cawnpore murderers.
— from The Disputed V.C.: A Tale of the Indian Mutiny by Frederick P. Gibbon

The Turks have practised the same maxim of not meddling in the complicated wrangles of this continent.
— from Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Thomas Jefferson

Page 291 [291] "My friend next carried me to the upper-end of Piccadilly, where, one pair of stairs over a stable, we found near an hundred people of both sexes, some masked, others not, a great part of which were dancing to the musick of two sorry fiddles.
— from Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London during the Eighteenth Century; Vol. 1 (of 2) Including the Charities, Depravities, Dresses, and Amusements etc. by James Peller Malcolm

Thou blasphemous scandalous misbirth of Nature, is not even that the kindest thing I can do for thee, if thou repent not, and alter in the name of Allah?'"
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 by Various

There is a mystery respecting Mr. and Mrs. Peacocke which, according to all laws recognised in such matters, ought not to be elucidated till, let us say, the last chapter but two, so that your interest should be maintained almost to the end,—so near the end that there should be left only space for those little arrangements which are necessary for the well-being, or perhaps for the evil-being, of our personages.
— from Dr. Wortle's School by Anthony Trollope

"We shall move off now.
— from The Right Stuff: Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton by Ian Hay

It was not the least of my annoyances that M. d'Agen appeared to be ignorant of any cause for apprehension save such as lay before us, and riding on in the same gloomy fit which had possessed him from the moment of starting, neither sought my opinion nor gave his own, but seemed to have undergone so complete and mysterious a change that I could think of one thing only that could have power to effect so marvellous a transformation.
— from Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France by Stanley John Weyman

Allow me to introduce my two brothers, James and Robert Skyd; my own name is the less common one of John.
— from The Settler and the Savage by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

82 Right and wrong, appreciation of, in early childhood, 42 Round shoulders, 151 St. Vitus's dance, 167 Salts, excretion of, 147 School life, 182 , 184 and sexual matters, 171 , 175 moral standard of, 183 moral training and, 123 moulding of character during, 184 of boys, 183 -187 of girls, 188 Schools, public, character and effects of, 183 Scoliosis, prevention of, 154 Secretions, anomalies of, 141 Self, child's conception of, 48 Self-conscious children, complaints of, 139 Self-consciousness, of neuropathic children, 138 Self-discipline, development of, 125 , 126 Self-education, in the nursery, 96 Self-feeding, 55 Self-preservation, morbid instinct of, 134 Self-sacrifice, not to be expected in early childhood, 48 -49 Sensations, acuteness of, 69 bodily, of neuropaths, 138 Sense perception, of neuropaths, 132 Sense stimuli, cultivation of perception of, 23 in newborn babies, 105 Sexual matters, education on, 168 method of, 174 errors of conduct and, 176 parents' silence in regard to, 170 psycho-analysis in relation to, 177 , 178 school life in relation to, 171 , 175 Sickness, 160 evil effects of suggestions unconsciously conveyed by parents during, 164 , 166 management during, 160 , 163 nurse and mother during, 166 opposition during, 160 temperature during, 161 therapeutic measures in, 164 therapeutic procedures concentrating child's mind on his symptoms, 163 Page 201 Sleep, estimation of the amount of, 136 force of suggestion in relation to, 27 , 28 formation of habit of, 115 light and broken, cause of, 68 , 136 , 137 of newborn infant, 114 sound, beneficial effects of, 71 Sleeping attire, 69 Sleeplessness, breaking of the habit of, 70 causes and characteristics, 64 drugs in, 70 , 71 in older children, 136 lack of physical exercise causing, 69 suggestion in relation to, 27 , 28 , 70 treatment of, 67 , 70 , 137 Sleep-walking, 137 Snatching, habit of, 20 Spasmophilia, 81 ætiology of, 81 drugs in treatment of, 84 occurrence of rickets with, 82 Spasms, control of, 84 fatal, 83 Speech, beginnings of, 17 , 18 facility with which local accent is acquired, 17 imitativeness of, 17 , 18 infant's reasoning power present before advent of, 40 influence of nurses and mothers on tone and manner of, 17 Spinal deformity, prevention of, 154 Spinal muscles, atrophy of, 151 Spoon feeding, 113 Status catarrhalis, 150 Status lymphaticus, 150 Story-telling, 99 , 100 Sucking movements, of newborn child, induction of, 106 see also Lactation Suggestion, and habit spasms, 74 appetite in relation to, 52 bed wetting in relation to, 89 bodily habits in relation to, 30 characteristics, 24 conduct influenced by, 13 , 130 constipation in relation to, 80 effect on mental processes, 29 food in relation to, 25 force of, on child's mind, 27 , 75 hysteria in relation to, 32 perverse influence of, 29 , 30 bad habits due to, 89 , 90 causing constipation, 30 want of sleep depending upon, 64 refusal of food in relation to, 57 , 58 sleep in relation to, 27 susceptibility to, 29 , 57 unconsciously conveyed by parents, evil results of, 31 , 164 , 166 Suicide, 52 Suspicions, aroused in the child, 57 , 58 Syncopal attacks, causes and characteristics, 140 , 141 Tactile sensation.
— from The Nervous Child by Hector Charles Cameron