Of course; still let us not by our words imply that we are appealing to experience, when really we are only accounting, and that by hypothesis, for the absence of experience.
— from An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent by John Henry Newman

All usurpations, not born of war, have been caused and supported by labor.
— from What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government by P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon

This was directly antagonistic to the entire spirit of 'self-reliance'; but I read on, and soon found the last sentence utterly nullified by one which declared positively 'that the Highest dwells with man; the sources of nature are in his own mind.'
— from Beulah by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

The light shone bright on crooked backs, slightly distorted limbs, the pallor of sickness, the stains of rough weather; on girls meekly folding hands that daily scrub and scour; on laboring men stooping the shoulders that habitually carry weights; on spectacled old women with eyes worn out by incessantly peering at the tiny stitches of their untiring needles; but one would have looked in vain for any types even approximately similar to the stalwart well-balanced youths, the smooth-cheeked game-playing maidens, the prosperously healthful fathers and mothers of the established faith.
— from The Devil's Garden by W. B. (William Babington) Maxwell

She is a stranger here, and will depart hence, leaving, it may be, such a standard of female excellence in one's mind, as to increase the difficulties of falling in love elsewhere; but as I am in no haste to marry, and our good father has no crotchet in his head for me, you may set your anxieties to sleep, and let us not be over wise in our prudence."
— from Tales of My Time, Vol. 2 (of 3) Who Is She? [concluded]; The Young Reformers by William Pitt Scargill

During the war these vast herds grew and increased unattended, neglected by owners, who were in the field with the armies of the Confederacy.
— from The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier by Edgar Beecher Bronson

So far his position was strictly legal, but Pompey, whose own consulship was unconstitutional, now broke openly with Caesar by passing legislation which would undermine the latter’s position.
— from A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur E. R. (Arthur Edward Romilly) Boak