Between the Yedo Sh[=o]gun and the people rose a great staircase of numberless subordinates, and should a subject attempt to offer a petition in person he must pay for it by crucifixion.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

It is against the law for a woman to take any part in politics here.
— from Letters from China and Japan by Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey

Butler in his Character of a Small Poet said of Edward Benlowes: 'As for Altars and Pyramids in poetry, he has outdone all men that way; for he has made a gridiron and a frying-pan in verse, that besides the likeness in shape, the very tone and sound of the words did perfectly represent the noise that is made by those utensils.' return Footnote 4: But a devout earnestness gave elevation to George Herbert's ingenious conceits.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

,” said the Knight, who seemed to take a pleasure in provoking his quondam host, “hast thou forgotten how, that for my sake (for I say nothing of the temptation of the flagon and the pasty) thou didst break thy vow of fast and vigil?”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

Why have we none for books, those spiritual repasts—a grace before Milton—a grace before Shakspeare—a devotional exercise proper to be said before reading the Fairy Queen?—but, the received ritual having prescribed these forms to the solitary ceremony of manducation, I shall confine my observations to the experience which I have had of the grace, properly so called; commending my new scheme for extension to a niche in the grand philosophical, poetical, and perchance in part heretical, liturgy, now compiling by my friend Homo Humanus, for the use of a certain snug congregation of Utopian Rabelćsian Christians, no matter where assembled.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

If a man so much as touched a pig in passing, he stepped into the river with all his clothes on, to wash off the taint.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

A passage in Plutarch however seems to indicate that the “middleness” of the sun was a Persian doctrine: “The principle of good most nearly resembles light, and the principle of evil darkness, and between both is Mithras; therefore the Persians called Mithras the Mediator” (μεσίτης).
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

And when he sought to picture to himself the happiness which he might have found upon earth, if she had not been a gypsy, and if he had not been a priest, if Phoebus had not existed and if she had loved him; when he pictured to himself that a life of serenity and love would have been possible to him also, even to him; that there were at that very moment, here and there upon the earth, happy couples spending the hours in sweet converse beneath orange trees, on the banks of brooks, in the presence of a setting sun, of a starry night; and that if God had so willed, he might have formed with her one of those blessed couples,—his heart melted in tenderness and despair.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

It refers to the game in question as played in Perak:— “Hearts, Lĕkoh .
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

In two days I arrived at Pesaro in perfect health and well provided for in every way.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Esau "despised" it, because he was "a profane [irreligious] person," Heb. 12:16, and Jacob schemed to obtain it by purchase, Gen. 25:31, and by fraud, ch. 27:19.
— from A Brief Bible History: A Survey of the Old and New Testaments by James Oscar Boyd

The official work came in later years to absorb the greatest part of Mill's energy, and his position excluded him from any active participation in politics, had he ever been inclined for it.
— from The English Utilitarians, Volume 2 (of 3) James Mill by Leslie Stephen

The fringe of cards about her long mirror, where she kept her invitations tucked into the margins and pinned in pendants, had grown less fresh—not to say stale—and less distinguished.
— from One Woman's Life by Robert Herrick

And papa, is papa, he is.
— from The Maid of Sker by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

IN WITNESS whereof, I the said William Penn , at Philadelphia in Pensylvania , have unto this present Charter of Liberties, set my Hand and broad Seal, this twenty-eighth Day of October , in the Year of our Lord, one Thousand seven Hundred and One , being the thirteenth Year of the Reign of King WILLIAM the Third , over England, Scotland, France , and Ireland , &c. and the twenty-first Year of my Government.
— from Papers Relating to an Act of the Assembly of the Province of New-York For encouragement of the Indian trade, &c. and for prohibiting the selling of Indian goods to the French, viz. of Canada by Cadwallader Colden

A very little will get a person into prison here; but it requires a great deal of interest to get him out again.
— from The History of Margaret Catchpole, a Suffolk Girl by Richard Cobbold

In his youth he had studied at Corpus Christi, Oxford, under Richard Hooker, the future founder of Connecticut, and this ardent Puritan influenced profoundly his [Pg 8] views and career.
— from Give Me Liberty: The Struggle for Self-Government in Virginia by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker

It is a penalty impulsive people have to pay that later they must consider whether they have been bold and presumptuous.
— from Gunsight Pass: How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West by William MacLeod Raine

In point of intellect, integrity of character, and the capacity for governing others, he is supposed to have no superior among the Indians: Bold, courageous, and skilful in war—mild, firm and politic in peace: He has great enterprize and active impulses, with a freshness and enthusiasm of feeling, which might readily lead him astray, but for his quick perception of human character, his uncommon prudence and his calm, sound judgment.
— from Great Indian Chief of the West; Or, Life and Adventures of Black Hawk by Benjamin Drake