the contrary, the sovereign in them exists only for his subjects: his life is only valuable so long as he discharges the duties of his position by ordering the course of nature for his people’s benefit.
— from Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud

And whether he be of the Congregation, or not; and whether his consent be asked, or not, he must either submit to their decrees, or be left in the condition of warre he was in before; wherein he might without injustice be destroyed by any man whatsoever.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Therefore in reference to such cases the reflective Judgement has its maxims—necessary maxims—on behalf of the cognition of natural laws in experience, in order to attain by their means to concepts, even concepts of Reason; since it has absolute need of such in order to learn merely to cognise nature according to its empirical laws.—Between these necessary maxims of the reflective Judgement there may be a conflict and consequently an antinomy, upon which a Dialectic bases itself.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

This will of God is learned for the most part by observing the course of nature and history, and remembering the fate meted out habitually to various sorts of men.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

As, by degrees, the feudal System became organized, the convocation of national assemblies became more necessary, and the administration of justice more complicated.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

If the bishops of the council of Nice 55 had been permitted to follow the unbiased dictates of their conscience, Arius and his associates could scarcely have flattered themselves with the hopes of obtaining a majority of votes, in favor of an hypothesis so directly averse to the two most popular opinions of the Catholic world.
— 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

If the bishops of the council of Nice had been permitted to follow the unbiased dictates of their conscience, Arius and his associates could scarcely have flattered themselves with the hopes of obtaining a majority of votes, in favor of an hypothesis so directly averse to the two most popular opinions of the Catholic world.
— 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

Buell followed with a portion of the Army of the Ohio, but he had to march and did not reach the east bank of the Cumberland opposite Nashville until the 24th of the month, and then with only one division of his army.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

She said it put her in mind of her poor father (he had been swallowed by a shark, poor man, while bathing off the coast of New Guinea—where the connection came in, she could not explain).
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

'My opinion for the benefit of the citizens of New Orleans: The water is higher this far up than it has been since 8.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

He has embarked successively on all the pinnaces,—on the galley of Trevirium for Sanastrea in Macedonia; on the trireme of Carystus for Metapon in Greece; on the skiff of Cyllenus for the island of Samothrace; on the sandal of Samothrace for Naxos, where is Bacchus; on the ceroscaph of Naxos for Syria; on the vessel of Syria for Egypt, and on the ship of the Red Sea for India.
— from William Shakespeare by Victor Hugo

Nor are they beyond our hopes, since we all hope for the resurrection of the dead, which nevertheless will be outside the course of nature.
— from Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

Now on the height of the hill, The wind is fallen to a breath; But down in the valley still, 5 It stalks in the shadowy wood, And angers the river’s breast; The fields turn into the dark That plays on the round of the sphere; A star leaps sharp in the clear Line of the sky, clear and cold; But a cloud in the warmer west Holds for a little its gold; Like the wing of a seraph who sinks Into antres afar from the earth, Reluctant he flames on the brinks Of the circles of nebulous stars, Reluctant he turns to the rest, From the planet whose ideal is love,
— from Labor and the Angel by Duncan Campbell Scott

Before the war its students were largely the children of Southern planters, and its graduates are found all over the South and South-west; and up to 1881 the pupils boarded and lodged within the precincts of the old buildings on the corner of Ninth Street and Washington, where for over half a century the school has vigorously flourished.
— from Studies in the South and West, with Comments on Canada by Charles Dudley Warner

This agreement made the sixteenth day of Feb. 1853, between ——, of the city of New York, of the first part, and Miss Elizabeth T. Greenfield, now of the city of Buffalo, of the second part, Witnesseth; That the said parties of the first and second parts, do hereby agree, each with the other, as follows.
— from The Black Swan at Home and Abroad or, A Biographical Sketch of Miss Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, the American Vocalist by Anonymous

[Pg 38] State and city, under the most specious engagements of their country; to establish which, they beg leave to state that Colonel William Smith, then Surveyor of the port of New York, William Armstrong, Daniel D. Durning, and John Fink, butcher, of the city of New York, declared they were authorized to enlist a number of men to go to New Orleans, to serve as guards to the United States mails, and a number of others as mechanics.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 4 (of 16) by United States. Congress

The old fellow was hard close-hauled against the match, notwithstanding of the young folks makin' it all up; so he'd taken out berths aboard of a large Company's ship, and bought over the captain on no account to let any king's navy man within the gangways, nor not a shoulder with a swab upon it, red or blue, beyond the ship's company.
— from The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art. by Various

In fact a trumpet arch of domed up character is found in the Baptistery of the cathedral of Naples [5] which dates from the fifth century, while the niche head or half dome type, very commonly employed in Romanesque architecture, has a sixth century prototype in the church of San Vitale at Ravenna, [6] as well as many earlier examples such as those in the Domus Augustana (cir.
— from Mediaeval Church Vaulting by Clarence Ward

My opinion for the benefit of the citizens of New Orleans: The water is higher this far up than it has been since 1815.
— from Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume III, Part 2: 1907-1910 by Albert Bigelow Paine