To have any thing offered them repugnant to this desire, must needs in all respects grieve them as much as me; so that if I do harm, I must look to suffer, there being no reason that others should shew greater measure of love to me, than they have by me shewed unto them: my desire therefore to be loved of my equals in nature as much as possible may be, imposeth upon me a natural duty of bearing to them-ward fully the like affection; from which relation of equality between ourselves and them that are as ourselves, what several rules and canons natural reason hath drawn, for direction of life, no man is ignorant, Eccl.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

For where persons lost their suits by insisting upon more than appeared to be their due, before the judges of private causes, he granted them the indulgence of a second trial.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

“But as I shall certainly be that mad woman,” cries Sophia, “I hope his visits shall not be intruded upon me.”
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

So I had brought it upon myself!
— from Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen

Yours has brought its usual measure of satisfaction and amusement, and I beg your acceptance of all the thanks due on the occasion.
— from The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne by Jane Austen

It was being borne in upon me just how tremendously rum this place was; it was, so to speak, inundated by a sense of rumness.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

To this constant shifting of races and peoples the name of historical movement has been given, because it underlies most of w
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Then Lakshmaṇ moved with sorrow viewed His brother in unwonted mood, And reverent palm to palm applied, Thus spoke with lips which terror dried “Thy heart was ever soft and kind, To every creature's good inclined.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Now this duty of cross-examining other men has been imposed upon me by God; and has been signified to me by oracles, visions, and in every way in which the will of divine power was ever intimated to any one.
— from Apology by Plato

From and without the Tower ditch, west and by north, is the said Tower hill, sometime a large plot of ground, now greatly straitened by incroachments (unlawfully made and suffered) for gardens and houses; some on the bank of the Tower ditch, whereby the Tower ditch is marred, but more near unto the wall of the city from the postern north, till over against the principal fore-gate of the Lord Lumley’s house, etc.; but the Tower ward goeth no further that way.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

But to cherish animosity, to thirst for mere revenge, to hoard up wrongs, real or fancied, and lie in wait for the chance of paying them back; to be impatient, unforgiving, malicious, and cruel to all who have crossed us—these diabolical propensities are checked and curbed by the authority and spirit of the Christian religion, and the application of it has converted men from low savages into refined and civilized beings.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

'I am not eager,' the Earl said, breaking in upon my reply, 'for reasons which I have given to the Tutor, to send one of my own folk.
— from The Grey Man by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

The different taxes which have been imposed upon malt, beer, and ale, have never lowered the price of barley ; 348 have never reduced the rent and profit 24 of barley land.
— from On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation by David Ricardo

[10] This Big Bush is usually much higher than the usual 20 low bush of the country, and looks more like virgin bush—a scarce commodity in Mende land.
— from Human Leopards An Account of the Trials of Human Leopards before the Special Commission Court; With a Note on Sierra Leone, Past and Present by Beatty, Kenneth James, Sir

It means nothing whatever to me, for the sense channels of touch, sight, and hearing, through which alone it could be impressed upon my brain, are gone.
— from Applied Psychology for Nurses by Mary F. Porter

They professed to have no authority to speak for these latter, but insisted upon Mr. Wagner’s appointment as strenuously as upon that of Mr. O’Halloran.
— from The Fall of the Great Republic (1886-88) by Henry Standish Coverdale

And yet it was borne in upon me that friend Barbara rarely thought of me when I was not present with her.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. by Various

[Pg 15] An After Song So art thou broken in upon me, Apollo, Through a splendour of purple garments— Held by the yellow-haired Clymène To clothe the white of thy shoulders— Bare from the day's leaping of horses.
— from The Tempers by William Carlos Williams

The better I understood my subjects, the better I became able to represent them in what I hoped were natural positions.
— from Audubon and His Journals, Volume 2 (of 2) by John James Audubon