tho’ every one who seriously considers it, must be convinc’d of the Advantage; and the generality of Schools go on in the same old dull road, wherein a great part of Children’s time is lost in a tiresome heaping up a Pack of dry and unprofitable, or pernicious Notions (for surely little xxxi better can be said of a great part of that Heathenish stuff they are tormented with; like the feeding them with hard Nuts, which when they have almost broke their teeth with cracking, they find either deaf or to contain but very rotten and unwholesome Kernels) whilst Things really perfected of the understanding, and useful in every state of Life, are left unregarded, to the Reproach of our Nation, where all other Arts are improved and flourish well, only this of Education of Youth is at a stand; as if that, the good or ill management of which is of the utmost consequence to all, were a thing not worth any Endeavors to improve it, or was already so perfect and well executed that it needed none, when many of the greatest Wisdom and Judgment in several Nations, have with a just indignation endeavor’d to expose it, and to establish a more easy and useful way in its room.
— from The Orbis Pictus by Johann Amos Comenius

Thus a prominent French officer of our own day writes:— "The sad condition of the navy in the reign of Louis XV., by closing to officers the brilliant career of bold enterprises and successful battles, forced them to fall back upon themselves.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Fourier was incontestably right in holding, though he nowhere directly proved, that a function given for any value of x between certain limits, could be expressed either by a sine-series or by a cosine-series.
— from Lord Kelvin: An account of his scientific life and work by Andrew Gray

CHAPTER X. BILLY CRACKS
— from The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs

[Pg xliv] by Curll; and, notwithstanding the revenge by which he professed to be actuated, P. T. maintained that the poet ought to be mentioned with praise.
— from The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 Poetry - Volume 1 by Alexander Pope

“It is mine, mine—and I shall not allow any one to touch it—” and then her face softened—“except Seer Marcous.” H2 anchor CHAPTER XXIII Behold Carlotta again installed in my house which she regarded as her home.
— from The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel by William John Locke

Xenophon became Conservator of this property for Artemis: to whom he dedicated a shrine and a statue, in miniature copy of the great temple at Ephesus.
— from Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 1 by George Grote

'Lay on him the curse of the withered heart, The curse of the sleepless eye; Till he wish and pray that his life would part, Nor yet find leave to die.' XIV. Ballad Continued.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

In Connecticut, it would appear that the Oath of Fidelity required of all that were admitted freemen up to July 1640, was as follows: An Oath for Paqua’ and the Plantations there : I A. B. being by the P r uidence of God an inhabitant w th in the Jurisdiction of Conectecotte, doe acknowledge my selfe to be subject to the gou r ment thereof, and doe sweare by the great and dreadfull name of the eu r liueing God to be true and faythfull vnto the same, and doe submitt boath my P r son & estate thereunto, according to all the holsome lawes & orders that ether are or hereafter shall be there made by lawfull authority: And that I will nether plott nor practice any euell agaynst the same, nor consent to any that shall so doe, but will tymely discou r the same to lawfull authority established there; and that I will maynetayne, as in duty I am bownd, the honor of the same & of the lawfull Magestrats thereof, promoteing the publike good thereof, whilst I shall so continue an Inhabitant there, and whensou r I shall give my vote, suffrage or p r xy, being cauled thereunto touching any matter w ch conserns this Com̄onwelth, I will giue y t as in my conscience may conduce to the best good of the same, w th out respect of p r son or favor of any man; So helpe me God in the Lo: Jesus Christ.
— from Oaths of Allegiance in Colonial New England by Charles Evans

Nicolas Poussin returned to Paris when he was a middle-aged man, was presented to the king, Louis XIII., by Cardinal Richelieu, and offered apartments in the Tuileries, with the title of painter in ordinary, and a salary of a hundred and twenty pounds a year.
— from The Old Masters and Their Pictures, For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art by Sarah Tytler