If the soul has not therein so much to enjoy, as in the first the bodily senses, which participate more of this, bring it to a proportion next to, though, in my opinion, not equal to the other.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

But though with these things he was brought into great feare, yet he kept on his The innocent mistrustfull of no euill. iournie, as he that mistrusted no deceit, measuring other mens maners by his owne.
— from Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete by William Harrison

He returned from his honours in England to find himself the centre of the intellectual movement of New England.
— from The Battle of Principles A Study of the Heroism and Eloquence of the Anti-Slavery Conflict by Newell Dwight Hillis

A rabid Tory, in matters of national expenditure, remembers to have heard an old unexploded proverb, "There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth, and there is that withholdeth what is due, but it tendeth to poverty;" and he is by no means sure that a certain mismanaged nation is not immolating her prosperity to what actuaries would call economical principles.
— from An Author's Mind : The Book of Title-pages by Martin Farquhar Tupper

One of the instrument makers of New England who has remained relatively unknown was Benjamin Platt (1757-1833), who was born in Danbury, Connecticut, on January 3, 1757.
— from Early American Scientific Instruments and Their Makers by Silvio A. Bedini

The authority to impress men of no employment was transferred from the justices to the commissioners of the land-tax, with full powers [567] to employ the parochial officers.
— from A History of the British Army, Vol. 1 First Part—to the Close of the Seven Years' War by Fortescue, J. W. (John William), Sir

Your curiosity, you then told me, was so excited, that I must, of necessity, enter into a more exact detail of their reasonings, and display those various systems which they advanced with regard to so delicate a subject as that of natural religion.
— from Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume

The farmers received the highest prices for their grain, the ingenious mechanics of New England reaped fortunes from the sale of their wares, and the shipyards were filled to their greatest capacity with the graceful frames of fast clipper vessels destined for the trade with Europe.
— from The Naval History of the United States. Volume 1 by Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot

There is one class of women that in my opinion need extinguishing.
— from Folly as It Flies; Hit at by Fanny Fern by Fanny Fern