“If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it.”
“In following their line through, and those of Plantagenet and Tudor, there is but little to soothe the mind.”
“In the course of her education she had gone through the history usually put into the hands of young people... now her ripened reason gave to her present study at least the advantage of novelty.”
“The child now shewed her a narrow and rugged descent, made by cutting the red clay and stones, of which the cliffs are here composed, into a sort of rude steps.”
“The cottage garden; most for use designed, Yet not of beauty destitute.”
