This was allowed without a remonstrance; while, though Nelson abstained most carefully from offering any offence to the Genoese territory or flag, complaints were so repeatedly made against his squadron, that, he says, it seemed a trial who should be tired first; they of complaining, or he of answering their complaints.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

The nearest approach to the genuine in my experience was the upstairs room of the old Fleischman Café in New York.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

The judgement of taste is aesthetical In order to decide whether anything is beautiful or not, we refer the representation, not by the Understanding to the Object for cognition but, by the Imagination (perhaps in conjunction with the Understanding) to the subject, and its feeling of pleasure or pain.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

In life, on the contrary, as we gradually discover the imperfections of our nature, we discover virtues, and various circumstances attach us to our fellow creatures, when we mix with them, and view the same objects, that are never thought of in acquiring a hasty unnatural knowledge of the world.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

lāst w. keep the track of, follow closely .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

It must be seen at once that the proposed uniformity in the VALUE of the current coin might be destroyed by subjecting that of foreign coin to the different regulations of the different States.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

The taxes of France cannot be magnified, either by fear or by flattery, beyond the annual amount of eighteen millions sterling, which ought perhaps to be shared among four and twenty millions of inhabitants.
— 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

The flowers stand at the top of the stalks, consisting of five or six broad leaves, of a fair purplish red colour, with many yellow threads in the middle standing about the head, which after rises up to be the seed vessels, divided into two, three, or four crooked pods like horns, which being full ripe, open and turn themselves down backwards, shewing with them divers round, black, shining seeds, having also many crimson grains, intermixed with black, whereby it makes a very pretty shew.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

Beefy , unduly thick or fat, commonly said of women’s ankles; also rich, juicy, plenteous.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

A table of figures can show it only approximately and by averages.
— from American Forest Trees by Henry H. Gibson

But the calculating power alone should seem to be the least human of qualities, and to have the smallest amount of reason in it; since a machine can be made to do the work of three or four calculators, and better than any one of them.
— from The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes

It would indeed require a revolution in boy nature to make Ted Slavin, or his crony, Scissors, trustworthy, loyal, helpful to others, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient to his superior officers, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent!
— from The Banner Boy Scouts; or, The Struggle for Leadership by George A. Warren

That other factors contribute to the wave of Racial decline now menacing our modern civilisations, great and small, is true.
— from Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Arabella Kenealy

As for you, well—always the old father can pray to his God for his son.
— from Helen of the Old House by Harold Bell Wright

Four of them are towers of finely cut masonry, with the sides of the stones dovetailing into each other.
— from The travels of Pedro de Cieza de Léon, A.D. 1532-50, contained in the first part of his Chronicle of Peru by Pedro de Cieza de León

The broad expanse of plain which stretched out before our camp was large enough for an army to manœuvre upon, and the officers certainly made the most of their opportunity, for company, battalion and brigade drills followed one another so closely that one had scarcely time to think in the intervening moments.
— from The Campaign of the Forty-fifth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia "The Cadet Regiment" by Charles Eustis Hubbard

In 1579 “the Gallants’ War” broke out; the Leaguers had it all their own way; but Henri III., not too friendly to them, and urged by his brother Anjou, to whom had been offered sovereignty over the seven united provinces in 1580, offered the insurgents easy terms, and the Treaty of Fleix closed the seventh war.
— from Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre — Complete by Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France

In this muster there were three or four companies, well equipped; but the major part of the men were what they call here flood-wood , that is, of all sizes and heights—a term suggested by the pieces of wood borne down by the freshets of the river, and which are of all sorts, sizes, and lengths.
— from Diary in America, Series One by Frederick Marryat