For the term “state” implies the relation of one who rules to those who obey—that is to say, of law-giver to the subject people: and many nations in one state would constitute only one nation, which contradicts our hypothesis, since here we have to consider the right of one nation against another, in so far as they are so many separate states and are not to be fused into one.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

But change of air is the first thing in the world for such [56] disorders, and she must have Asses' milk now, instead of Sally Siddons, who grows fat and merry.
— from The Intimate Letters of Hester Piozzi and Penelope Pennington, 1788-1821 by Penelope Pennington

It had been difficult to talk much about him to himself without seeming to wish to probe into his past life; and as Mrs. Nightingale impressed on Sally for the twentieth time, just as they arrived at St. Satisfax, they really knew nothing of it.
— from Somehow Good by William De Morgan

Then all was quiet for many days, but when at length the quakings began again my natural instinct of self-preservation told me I ought not to take the risk of another such siege, and so I started to make my way to the surface by a well-known path.
— from Daybreak; A Romance of an Old World by James Cowan

Every renowned city and every town Mourns for thee, Bion;—Ascra weeps thee more Than her own Hesiod; the Bœotian woods Ask not for Pindar so; nor patriot Lesbos For her Alcæus; nor th’ Ægean isle Her poet; nor does Paros so wish back Archilochus; and Mitylene now, Instead of Sappho’s verses, rings with thine.
— from A Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla by Leigh Hunt

Heredity, will, destiny, all mingle noisily in our soul; but, notwithstanding everything, far above everything, it is the silent star that reigns.
— from The Treasure of the Humble by Maurice Maeterlinck

During the first half of the year 1917 the Operations Division of the Naval Staff received a much needed increase of strength by the appointment of additional officers, charged, under the Director of the Operations Division, with the detailed preparation of plans for operations.
— from The Crisis of the Naval War by John Rushworth Jellicoe

These facts strongly corroborate the doctrine of a hollow sphere: otherwise, why should the rein-deer, and other animals, migrate north instead of south; as our Buffalo on the plains of Missouri do, when pressed with snow and cold weather?
— from Symmes's Theory of Concentric Spheres Demonstrating that the Earth is hollow, habitable within, and widely open about the poles by John Cleves Symmes