Coleridge, and still more the American writers, regard her love, in effect, as Brabantio regarded it, and not as Shakespeare conceived it.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

"If this king and this arch-prelate have their will, we shall briefly behold a cross on the spire of this tabernacle which we have builded, and a high altar within its walls, with wax tapers burning round it at noon-day.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Ought the right of the elder to be regarded in a nation, where the eldest brother had no advantage in the succession to private families? Ought the Roman empire at that time to be esteemed hereditary, because of two examples; or ought it, even so early, to be regarded as belonging to the stronger, or the present possessor, as being founded on so recent an usurpation?
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

In all lawful governments, the designation of the persons, who are to bear rule, is as natural and necessary a part as the form of the government itself, and is that which had its establishment originally from the people; the anarchy being much alike, to have no form of government at all; or to agree, that it shall be monarchical, but to appoint no way to design the person that shall have the power, and be the monarch.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

The ideas come of themselves, being new and unthought-of figments, similar, no doubt, to old perceptions and compacted of familiar materials, but reproduced in a novel fashion and dropping in their sudden form from the blue.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Now, in such exigencies not to need, Upon my word, you must be rich indeed; A noble superfluity it craves, Not for yourself, but for your fools and knaves: Something, which for your honour they may cheat, And which it much becomes you to forget.
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope

But there has been recently introduced a non-commercial factor known as "valorization," a governmental scheme of Brazil, by which the public treasury has assumed to purchase and hold a certain percentage of the coffee grown there, in order to prevent a decline of the price.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

35 Under date of December 26, 1901, General Bell reports: I am now assembling in the neighborhood of 2500 men, who will be used in columns of fifty each.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

The saying, 'Move not the immovable,' may be repeated in a new sense; and there is a common belief which asserts that such deeds prevent a man from having a family.
— from Laws by Plato

Then it was forgotten, and it is doubtful if it will ever be resurrected in any naval history of the war.
— from Stand By! Naval Sketches and Stories by H. Taprell (Henry Taprell) Dorling

These clever parodies and satires, whose cool audacity and mischievous love of fun have secured them a favorite place in the English magazines, have been republished in a neat edition by Redfield.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XXIII.—April, 1852.—Vol. IV. None by Various

[Pg 140] to be representations in a nobler and original German style, and he, the lonely wanderer, who hitherto has heard but the croakings in the bogs of theatrical criticism, accompanied the pamphlet with an essay on the “Mission of the Opera,” with which he at the same time introduces himself as a member of the Berlin Academy.
— from Life of Wagner Biographies of Musicians by Ludwig Nohl

The beds run in a north-westerly direction, by Ashburnham and Heathfield, to Crowborough and thereabouts.
— from Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers by Samuel Smiles

This fact has already been realized in America, North and South.
— from The Irish Race in the Past and the Present by Augustus J. Thébaud

On a long and dangerous tour the safety of the party may ultimately depend upon the trust and confidence placed in the Guide in charge, and by him in his clients, and this should be remembered in all negotiations.
— from Ski-running by Katharine Furse

This characteristic, which has been remarked in a number of races of mankind, is especially visible in infants and in infant peoples.
— from The Non-religion of the Future: A Sociological Study by Jean-Marie Guyau

“But, Rosita, I am not committed to the quarrel, it was she who came in where I was.”
— from La Gaviota: A Spanish novel by Fernán Caballero

'You'll pardon me ,' says I, 'for I'm a plain man; but I just want to say that that's the kind of elevating that the black race in America needs most.
— from The Law of the Land Of Miss Lady, Whom It Involved in Mystery, and of John Eddring, Gentleman of the South, Who Read Its Deeper Meaning: A Novel by Emerson Hough

Come about two o'clock, if the weather is clear; but remember, I am not to know where you come from, or whither you go when you leave, any more than you are to know who I am.
— from The Road to Paris: A Story of Adventure by Robert Neilson Stephens