To will this feeling from one's breast away, Is not the easy labour of a day; 'Tis much to moderate its tyrant sway.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

This is made clearer by the fact that the legislator is not to exercise legislative power; he is merely to submit his suggestions for popular approval.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In looking at Nature, it is most necessary to keep the foregoing considerations always in mind—never to forget that every single organic being may be said to be striving to the utmost to increase in numbers; that each lives by a struggle at some period of its life; that heavy destruction inevitably falls either on the young or old during each generation or at recurrent intervals.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

It is not the easy life you dream of.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Bartlett , the compiler of the Dictionary of Americanisms , continually cites the Athenæum as using Slang and vulgar expressions;—but the magazine the American refers to is not the excellent literary journal which is so esteemed at the present day, it was a smaller, and now defunct “weekly.”
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

Have I not told enough lies?
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

That daughter there of Spain, the Lady Blanch, Is niece to England; look upon the years Of Lewis the Dauphin and that lovely maid.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

In looking at Nature, it is most necessary to keep the foregoing considerations always in mind—never to forget that every single organic being around us may be said to be striving to the utmost to increase in numbers; that each lives by a struggle at some period of its life; that heavy destruction inevitably falls either on the young or old, during each generation or at recurrent intervals.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

Beauty is not the eye, lock, cheek, and mole; A thousand subtle points the heart control.
— from The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 1 by Firdawsi

And King Ine found it needful to enact laws to secure that they performed their landlord's duties.
— from The English Village Community Examined in its Relations to the Manorial and Tribal Systems and to the Common or Open Field System of Husbandry; An Essay in Economic History (Reprinted from the Fourth Edition) by Frederic Seebohm

Many of the inhabitants had an indistinct notion that England, London, Europe, and New York were all different names for the same place—a place in which was being waged the great war of which they had heard rumors.
— from Working North from Patagonia Being the Narrative of a Journey, Earned on the Way, Through Southern and Eastern South America by Harry Alverson Franck

Do we not see that it is highly requisite that a sweet girl should be now-and-then drawn aside by him?—And the more eminent the girl, in the graces of person, mind, and fortune, is not the example likely to be the more efficacious?
— from Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6 by Samuel Richardson

To will this feeling from one's breast away, Is not the easy labour of a day; By that your majesty august, Will execute your royal trust, From folly free and aught unjust."
— from A Hundred Fables of La Fontaine by Jean de La Fontaine

It is not the English law that I am afraid of, and it is not the sentence which your judges will pass upon me which fills me with apprehension.
— from The Secret House by Edgar Wallace

He tells us that Lykurgus found fearful inequality in the landed possessions of the Spartans; nearly all the land in the hands of a few, and a great multitude without any land; that he rectified this evil by a redivision of the Spartan district into nine thousand equal lots, and the rest of Laconia into thirty thousand, giving to each citizen as much as would produce a given quota of barley, etc.; and that he wished, moreover, to have divided the movable property upon similar principles of equality, but was deterred by the difficulties of carrying his design into execution.
— from History of Greece, Volume 02 (of 12) by George Grote

Retiring to some quiet place apart from their comrades, they read through their letters again and again, and it is not till every little item is got by heart, that the letters are folded up and put away, to be re-read over and over again until the next batch arrive.
— from Jack Archer: A Tale of the Crimea by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty