5. I’m very certain there was nothing about him that could spoil.—Jerrold.
6. The Reverend Amos Barton did not come to Shepperton until long after Mr. Gilfil had departed this life.—George Eliot.
7. I think it does not matter just when I came to Venice.—Howells.
8. We charge him with having broken his coronation oath; and we are told that he kept his marriage vow.—Macaulay.
9. The worst of a modern stylish mansion is, that it has no place for ghosts.—Holmes.
10. It is with lent money that all evil is mainly done, and all unjust war protracted.—Ruskin.
11. The poor man humbly assured him that he meant no harm, but merely came there in search of some of his neighbors, who used to keep about the tavern.—Irving.
12. I need not say that in real sound stupidity the English are unrivaled.—Bagehot.
13. What his violins were to Stradivarius, and his fresco to Leonardo, and his campaigns to Napoleon, that was his history to Macaulay.—Trevelyan.
14. It is by his poetry that Milton is best known; and it is of his poetry that we first wish to speak.—Macaulay.