ce, there could hardly happen anything that would more serve the States, with all their variety of origins, their diverse climes, cities, standards, &c., than possessing an aggregate of heroes, characters, exploits, sufferings, prosperity or misfortune, glory or disgrace, common to all, typical of all—no less, but even greater would it be to possess the aggregation of a cluster of mighty poets, artists, teachers, fit for us, national expressers, comprehending and effusing for the men and women of the States, what is universal, native, common to all, inland and seaboard, northern and southern.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

The third class are real republics, in which authority has been obtained under constitutional forms, not by armed force, and where the machinery of government works with regularity and reasonable fairness, laws are passed by elected bodies under no executive coercion, and both administrative and judicial work goes on in a duly legal way.
— from South America: Observations and Impressions New edition corrected and revised by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount

[The musical compositions here referred to were those of Miss Laura Barker, afterwards Mrs. Tom Taylor, a member of a singularly gifted family, whose father and sisters were all born artists, with various and uncommon natural endowments, cultivated and developed to the highest degree, in the seclusion of a country parsonage.] ...
— from Records of Later Life by Fanny Kemble

ha estado obrando en la República Argentina: revolución que está desfigurada por palabras del diccionario civil, que la disfrazan y ocultan creando ideas erróneas: de la misma manera que los españoles, al desembarcar en América, daban un nombre europeo conocido a un animal nuevo que encontraban, saludando con el terrible de león, que trae al espíritu la magnanimidad y fuerza del rey de las bestias, al miserable gato llamado puma, que huye a la vista de los perros, y tigre al jaguar de nuestros bosques.
— from Argentina, Legend and History by Lucio Vicente López

To laugh—to laugh spontaneously and heartily—is under nearly every circumstance a good thing both for the body and for the mind.
— from Psychology and parenthood by H. Addington (Henry Addington) Bruce

"We needn't travel with a fife and drum corps ahead of us, nor even carry any lights down with us.
— from The Call of the Beaver Patrol; Or, A Break in the Glacier by V. T. Sherman

He was employed at the foundry of Messrs. Gowanlock and Van Duzer, and was known for an excellent workman, of steady habits, and good moral character—qualifications which were by no means universal, nor even common, among persons of his calling and degree of life, at the time and place of which I am writing.
— from The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales by John Charles Dent

The unlettered natives, even children and females, who know almost nothing of the distinctions into four, five, seven, or eight shing , observe them closely in their speech, and detect a mispronunciation as soon as the learned man.
— from The Middle Kingdom, Volume 1 (of 2) A Survey of the Geography, Government, Literature, Social Life, Arts, and History of the Chinese Empire and its Inhabitants by S. Wells (Samuel Wells) Williams

The monistic or mechanical philosophy of nature holds that only unconscious, necessary, efficient causes are at work in the whole field of nature, in organic life as well as in inorganic changes.
— from The Evolution of Man by Ernst Haeckel

(* The monistic or mechanical philosophy of nature holds that only unconscious, necessary, efficient causes are at work in the whole field of nature, in organic life as well as in inorganic changes.
— from The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Ernst Haeckel