But if verily the mind Thus all passive lies; If no living power within Its own force supplies; If it but reflect again, Like a glass, things false and vain— Whence the wondrous faculty That perceives and knows, That in one fair ordered scheme Doth the world dispose; Grasps each whole that Sense presents, Or breaks into elements?
— from The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

Nothing can be more fictitious than a purely legal inferiority; nothing more contrary to the instinct of mankind than these permanent divisions which had been established between beings evidently similar.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Well, after Phillis and de young un tuck away, 'pears like I neber look up any more; and if it not for de little Phillis dat was left, I tink I clean gib up.
— from Natalie Or, A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds by Ferna Vale

[Pg 18] But as yet the number of women who devote themselves to a political life is not large.
— from The Modern Woman's Rights Movement: A Historical Survey by Käthe Schirmacher

I am the affianced wife of Hubert Tracy and Phillip Lawson is not the man to take advantage of his influence."
— from Marguerite Verne; Or, Scenes from Canadian Life by Rebecca Agatha Armour

Let us imagine all these arms to be {393} bent symmetrically downwards, so that the plane of the paper is transformed into a spheroidal surface, such as that of a hemisphere, or that of a tall conical figure with curved sides; let a membrane be spread, umbrella-like, between the outstretched skeletal rods, and let its margin loop from rod to rod in curves which are possibly catenaries, but are more probably portions of an “elastic curve,” and the outward resemblance to a Pluteus larva is now complete.
— from On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

The correspondence between the thoracic and pelvic limbs is notorious.
— from On the Genesis of Species by St. George Jackson Mivart

Rival publishers, whose editions were rougher in engraving, type, and paper, labored in Newcastle.
— from A Study of Fairy Tales by Laura Fry Kready

It is only fair to say that there are a few thoughtful men in the City of Kings who, ambitious for their country's honour, would fain see some arrangement made that will enable Peru to pursue her present policy of internal improvement, and help these men, who for the most part are very wealthy, to remain peaceably in office for say ten years longer—or say six—but at least, for God's sake as well as your own, they appealingly persist, let it not be less than four years (in the which there shall be no hearing or harvest for bondholders and dupes of that stamp).
— from Peru in the Guano Age Being a Short Account of a Recent Visit to the Guano Deposits, with Some Reflections on the Money They Have Produced and the Uses to Which It Has Been Applied by A. J. (Alexander James) Duffield

Granted; but, if they can have the use of four or five score for a couple of dollars by subscribing to a parochial library, is not the objection removed?
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 14, October 1871-March 1872 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

The main ones were those at Philadelphia, (League Island); Newport, Rhode Island; Cape May, New Jersey; Charleston, South Carolina; Pensacola, Florida; Key West, Florida; Mare Island, California; Puget Sound, Washington; Hingham, Massachusetts; Norfolk, Virginia; New Orleans, San Diego, New York Navy Yard; Great Lakes, Illinois; Pelham, New York; Hampton Roads, Virginia; and Gulfport, Mississippi.
— from History of the World War: An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War by Richard Joseph Beamish

John Skelton [60] was his name: he too a priest living in Norfolk.
— from English Lands, Letters and Kings, vol. 1: From Celt to Tudor by Donald Grant Mitchell