Mrs. Goddard was the mistress of a School—not of a seminary, or an establishment, or any thing which professed, in long sentences of refined nonsense, to combine liberal acquirements with elegant morality, upon new principles and new systems—and where young ladies for enormous pay might be screwed out of health and into vanity—but a real, honest, old-fashioned Boarding-school, where a reasonable quantity of accomplishments were sold at a reasonable price, and where girls might be sent to be out of the way, and scramble themselves into a little education, without any danger of coming back prodigies.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

they gave us no positive answer to a request which we made, that two or three of their young men should accompany me to the falls of the Missouri and there wait my return from the upper part of Maria's river where it was probable I should meet with some of the bands of the Minnetares from Fort de Prarie; that in such case I should indeavor to bring about a good understanding between those indians and themselves, which when effected they would be informed of it though the young men thus sent with me, and that on the contrary should I not be fortunate enough to meet with these people nor to prevail on them to be at peace they would equally be informed through those young men, and they might still remain on their guard with rispect to them untill the whites had it in their power to give them more effectual releif.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

See self N name , nômen, -inis, n. nation , gêns, gentis, f. near , propinquus, -a, -um nearest , proximus, -a, -um nearly , ferê neighbor , fînitimus, -î, in.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

However let not thy understanding to this natural sense and feeling, which whether unto our flesh pleasant or painful, is unto us nothing properly, add an opinion of either good or bad and all is well.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

Called a ‘ Universal Negative ’ Proposition: also a Proposition ‘ in E ’ 〃 (3) Begins with “All”.
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

Subjects therefore in the Kingdome of God, are not Bodies Inanimate, nor creatures Irrationall; because they understand no Precepts as his: Nor Atheists; nor they that believe not that God has any care of the actions of mankind; because they acknowledge no Word for his, nor have hope of his rewards, or fear of his threatnings.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Let us now pause and survey briefly the process in which we have been engaged, and the results which we have elicited.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Hence anyone who seeks for the true causes of miracles, and strives to understand natural phenomena as an intelligent being, and not to gaze at them like a fool, is set down and denounced as an impious heretic by those, whom the masses adore as the interpreters of nature and the gods.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

It was greatly increased when it was discovered that Kate had not the least appetite for supper: a discovery so alarming that there is no knowing in what unaccountable efforts of oratory Mrs. Nickleby’s apprehensions might have been vented, if the general attention had not been attracted, at the moment, by a very strange and uncommon noise, proceeding, as the pale and trembling servant girl affirmed, and as everybody’s sense of hearing seemed to affirm also, ‘right down’ the chimney of the adjoining room.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

I see that I am a trouble to you; you are good, but those others are evil; as truly am I also—I who understand not pretending, as do they!
— from The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci, the Forerunner by Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky

Unhappily no precautions appear to have been taken to ascertain either the strength of the enemy’s position or the best mode of attack.
— from The Story of the Highland Regiments by Frederick Watson

We shall rear up no phantom armies, such as are said at times to be seen skirting the hills of Cumberland, to oppose to the levies of Sir James Graham; but whilst we are acting constitutionally and openly, let us hear no more of such language, which is somewhat worse than offensive.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 69, No. 425, March, 1851 by Various

The intendant could tell us nothing positive, and everything is so black and encrusted with dust that we could not see with certainty: but it is probable that what appears to be family plate, literally covering these tables, is the Courance heirloom silver.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 20, August 1877 by Various

The interior is large and spacious, the fine oak roof being borne upon Norman pillars and arches, while clerestory windows admit light from the southward wall.
— from Nooks and Corners of Shropshire by H. Thornhill (Henry Thornhill) Timmins

That such teachings can only produce disloyal feelings, stir up national prejudices and hatred of the Mother Country, and be most detrimental to the best interests of the Province of Quebec, of the Dominion of Canada, and of the British Empire as a whole, every one must admit with sadness.
— from England, Canada and the Great War by L. G. (Louis Georges) Desjardins

The rocky headland, jutting out upon the river, rises up nearly perpendicularly, and to a height of three hundred and forty-five feet, commanding from its summit a view of water, forest and mountain of surpassing grandeur and beauty.
— from Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 01 by Samuel de Champlain

Let us not play at kittly-benders.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

Leporello calls attention to the melodies as the orchestra on the stage plays them, and when, to terminate the series, the clarionets strike up Non piu andrai , he exclaims Questo lo conosco pur troppo!
— from History of the Opera from its Origin in Italy to the present Time With Anecdotes of the Most Celebrated Composers and Vocalists of Europe by H. Sutherland (Henry Sutherland) Edwards