However, I ought rather to be thankful that I have so many years remained unmolested, than repine at my present embarrassment; since it proves, at least, that this wretched woman is at length awakened to remorse.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

First, by sending back to the country a part of those materials wrought up and manufactured; in which case, their price is augmented by the wages of the workmen, and the profits of their masters or immediate employers; secondly, by sending to it a part both of the rude and manufactured produce, either of other countries, or of distant parts of the same country, imported into the town; in which case, too, the original price of those goods is augmented by the wages of the carriers or sailors, and by the profits of the merchants who employ them.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

That day on the Taku glacier will live forever as one of the rarest and most perfect enjoyment.
— from Alaska, Its Southern Coast and the Sitkan Archipelago by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore

Their poet, the austere Dolitzki, famous in Russia at the time of the revival of Hebrew twenty years ago, is the only man in New York who symbolizes in living verse the spirit in which these old men live, the spirit of love for the race as most purely expressed in the Hebrew literature.
— from The Spirit of the Ghetto: Studies of the Jewish Quarter in New York by Hutchins Hapgood

John Sarrasin, the all-accomplished Prior, as the reward of his exertions, received from Philip the abbey of Saint Vaast, the richest and most powerful ecclesiastical establishment in the Netherlands.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

While it doubtless is very efficient in destroying the top growth, I am unable to say that it is at all injurious to the roots, and may, perhaps, even stimulate them to renewed growth the following season.
— from Making a Lawn by Luke Joseph Doogue

I am going to-morrow to come to an understanding with the managers of the Renaissance, after many protocols exchanged between them and a friend who has undertaken to fight for my interests; the play will be mounted in twenty days.
— from Letters to Madame Hanska, born Countess Rzewuska, afterwards Madame Honoré de Balzac, 1833-1846 by Honoré de Balzac

The good seed has taken root, and my puny efforts will yet bear fruit in due season.
— from The Statesmen Snowbound by Robert Fitzgerald

And the results are most puzzling, even to those steadyminded folk who assert that they are direction-wise.
— from The Personality of American Cities by Edward Hungerford

The letters to the Danish prince formed the basis of the 'Letters on Aesthetic Education', which were published in 1795 in the Horen , and constitute the ripest and most pleasing expression of Schiller's aesthetic philosophy.
— from The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Calvin Thomas