Private property, which is the economic basis of independence, shall be developed freely and be respected by us.
— from The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl

He is not even bound to affiliate with the lodge in which he was initiated, but after being raised, may leave it, without signing the bye-laws, and attach himself to another.
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

So after being ready I went to him, and there he and I and Mr. Yard (one of the Guinny Company) dined together and very merry.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

“This yellow slave,” he said, “will make and break religions.
— from Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The merchants,—Pingree, Phillips, Shepard, Upton, Kimball, Bertram, Hunt,—these, and many other names, which had such a classic familiarity for my ear six months ago,—these men of traffic, who seemed to occupy so important a position in the world,—how little time has it required to disconnect me from them all, not merely in act, but recollection!
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

He was wearing a brownish reefer jacket, rather shabby, evidently made by a good tailor though, and of a fashion at least three years old, that had been discarded by smart and well-to-do people for the last two years.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The ordinary plain-grown makes a bright roast, and has a fairly good cup quality.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

She listened to college stories with deep interest, caressed pointers and poodles without a murmur, agreed heartily that "Tom Brown was a brick," regardless of the improper form of praise; and 358 when one lad proposed a visit to his turtle-tank, she went with an alacrity which caused mamma to smile upon her, as that motherly lady settled the cap which was left in a ruinous condition by filial hugs, bear-like but affectionate, and dearer to her than the most faultless coiffure from the hands of an inspired Frenchwoman.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

[Pg 348] vivors and to make amends by restoring to them all the plunder at a nominal price, to prevent its being thought that he had bestowed favors gratuitously upon any one.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

Set out very early this morning and Steered S. E. by E. 4 M. when we pased a bold runing Creek 12 yds.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

which, after bending round and creeping up the hill as far as Point du Jour, turns abruptly to the west, and crosses the Mance upon a causeway east of Gravelotte.
— from The Campaign of Sedan: The Downfall of the Second Empire, August-September 1870 by George Hooper

The preliminary position gave us latitude 77 degrees 38 minutes 23 seconds S. longitude 166 degrees 33 minutes 24 seconds E., a more accurate determination was arrived at by running meridian distances from New Zealand and taking occultations during the ensuing winter, for longitude: latitudes were obtained by the mean results of stars north and south and meridian altitudes of the sun above and below pole.
— from South with Scott by Mountevans, Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, baron

One, in particular, wore rose-coloured boots, and his horse was made to resemble a blue roan.
— from The City Curious by Jean de Boschère

By the peace of Luneville, finally concluded between Austria and France, the independence of the Italian, Helvetian, and Batavian republics had been stipulated; but instead of such terms being complied with, Napoleon, rendering himself Grand Mediator of Switzerland and King of Italy, had at the same time filled Holland with troops, and occupied the whole three countries in such a manner, as made them virtually, and almost avowedly, the absolute dependencies of France.
— from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume III. by Walter Scott

He took the nearest route across Black river at Wragg's ferry, and crossing the Pedee at Euhany, and the little Pedee at Potato bed ferry, he halted at Catfish creek, a mile from where Marion court house now stands.—Here Ganey's party flocked in to him in such numbers that he was soon nine hundred strong.
— from A Sketch of the Life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion and a History of His Brigade by William Dobein James

But how did it come that Rösgen warned my father to warn Ludwig not to trust Caspar too much in respect of money matters because he had a bad reputation; and then, Ludwig having told Caspar that he had received the warning from Steffen, Caspar demanded from my father to know from whom he had received the warning; and when my father refused because he had promised Rösgen on his word of honor not to betray him, Caspar rudely pressed my father, publicly delivered letters containing abuse and threats to the porter of the Court Council of War, etc., and—that my father, calling Ludwig a gossip, was long estranged from him until the letter of reconciliation came (in 1804).”
— from The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume I by Alexander Wheelock Thayer

This being the state of the case, the road to Longevity was plain; nothing more being required, says his lordship, but to repair the waste committed by the internal spirit, by making the substance of it more thick and dense, by a regular course of opiates on one side, and by refrigerating the heat of it on the other, by three grains and a half of salt-petre every morning before you got up.—— Still this frame of ours was left exposed to the inimical assaults of the air
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

The descendants of the men who were foremost in every land are now content to sit on the same farm from generation to generation, caring for nothing, and having no ambition beyond raising a larger family than their neighbour.
— from Yankee Girls in Zulu Land by Louise Vescelius Sheldon

( he goes out ; Cook crosses to larder with chicken and back round top down to L. )
— from Lady Huntworth's Experiment: An original comedy in three acts by R. C. (Richard Claude) Carton