And thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of any body, even of their legislators, whenever they shall be so foolish, or so wicked, as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject: for no man or society of men, having a power to deliver up their preservation, or consequently the means of it, to the absolute will and arbitrary dominion of another; when ever any one shall go about to bring them into such a slavish condition, they will always have a right to preserve, what they have not a power to part with; and to rid themselves of those, who invade this fundamental, sacred, and unalterable law of self-preservation, for which they entered into society.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

But as pure moral philosophy properly forms a part of this system of cognition, we must allow it to retain the name of metaphysic, although it is not requisite that we should insist on so terming it in our present discussion.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

In this all panes of the same colour are arranged in vertical, or palar, rows (Fig. 39, m ).
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

The prior and canons of the Holy Trinity, being thus seised of the said land and soke of Knighten Guilde, a part of the suburb without the wall (but within the liberties of the city), the same prior was, for him and his successors, admitted as one of the aldermen of London, to govern the same land and soke: according to the customs of the city, he did sit in court, and rode with the mayor and his brethren the aldermen, as one of them, in scarlet or other livery as they used, until the year 1531, at the which time the said priory, by the last prior there, was surrendered to King Henry VIII., in the 23rd of his reign, who gave this priory to Sir Thomas Audley, knight, lord chancellor of England, and he pulled down the church; since the which dissolution of that house, the said ward of Portsoken hath been [113] governed by a temporal man, one of the aldermen of London, elected by the citizens, as the aldermen of other wards.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

Of the first kind are all the impressions of the senses, and all bodily pains and pleasures: Of the second are the passions, and other emotions resembling them.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Their boldness was justified, not only by the general opinion of the clergy, but by the support and power of the first monarchs of Christendom: the emperor Sigismond declared himself the servant and protector of the synod; Germany and France adhered to their cause; the duke of Milan was the enemy of Eugenius; and he was driven from the Vatican by an insurrection of the Roman people.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

And further, make a law by my order, that he who has no part in reverence and justice shall be put to death, for he is a plague of the state.'
— from Protagoras by Plato

The poets of Provençe, a province of the southeastern part of France.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pictures of the mythical thunder-bird are painted on the screens behind which she hides.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

The site was a plain on the south side of the river, and as the pioneers approached it they were confronted with a sight which to most of them was entirely novel.
— from Daniel Boone, Backwoodsman by C. H. Forbes-Lindsay

As a picture of the social life of a quaint German city three and a half centuries ago, its vividness and truthfulness are beyond all praise; it is worthy to stand beside the best dramas of the world, and has no equal in operatic literature.
— from A Book of Operas: Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music by Henry Edward Krehbiel

Simone was a painter of the Sienese School, and according to Vasari, he was taught by Giotto.
— from Old Continental Towns by Walter M. (Walter Matthew) Gallichan

To produce the face mould, lay the steel square in the position, indicated by the lines 1, 2, 3, 4, not the figure on the square at the points numbered, and transfer them to a piece of thin stuff, Fig.
— from ABC of the Steel Square and Its Uses by Fred. T. (Frederick Thomas) Hodgson

(The quadruple devotion consists in one's attendance to holy lectures and in his understanding, reflection and practice of the same lessons, called the sádhana chatushtaya ).
— from The Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana of Valmiki, vol. 3 (of 4) part 2 (of 2) by Valmiki

We invited the chiefs to be seated, and gave every one of them a flag, a pound of powder, and fifty balls, and a present of the same kind to the young men from whom we had received the horses.
— from First Across the Continent The Story of the Exploring Expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6 by Noah Brooks

Statute regarding rogues and vagabonds, i. 1 .; against profanity on the stage, i. 1 .; against persons meeting out of their own parishes on Sundays for sports, etc., i. 1 .; entirely suppressing players, i. li .
— from An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume 1 (of 2) Written by Himself. A New Edition with Notes and Supplement by Colley Cibber

And seeing them sailing thus against them with few ships, not only the others in the army of Xerxes but also their commanders judged them to be moved by mere madness, and they themselves also put out their ships to sea, supposing that they would easily capture them: and their expectation was reasonable enough, since they saw that the ships of the Hellenes were few, while theirs were many times as numerous and sailed better.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 2 by Herodotus

We should know what and who they are before we set up our lares and penates on these savage shores.
— from Rex Kingdon on Storm Island by Gordon Braddock