For as a torch or candle, as long as it hath life enough and is lighted, shines round about, disperses its light, delights those that are near it, yields them its service and clearness, and never causes any pain or displeasure; but as soon as ‘tis extinguished, its smoke and evaporation infects the air, offends the bystanders, and is noisome to all; so, as long as those noble and renowned souls inhabit their bodies, peace, profit, pleasure, and honour never leave the places where they abide; but as soon as they leave them, both the continent and adjacent islands are annoyed with great commotions; in the air fogs, darkness, thunder, hail; tremblings, pulsations, agitations of the earth; storms and hurricanes at sea; together with sad complaints amongst the people, broaching of religions, changes in governments, and ruins of commonwealths.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

The King had given his body to his friends; and, therefore, he told them that he hoped they would be civil to his body when dead; and desired they would let him die like a gentleman and a Christian, and not crowded and pressed as he was.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Begirt by many a sage, elate, Vaśishṭha reached the royal gate, And standing by the door he found Sumantra, for his form renowned, The king's illustrious charioteer And noble counsellor and peer.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

You will proceed to negotiate, with his minister, the terms of a treaty of amity and commerce, as nearly conformed as possible to the draught we give you.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 1 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

The town has grown with the country, and now contains a population of nearly ten thousand people, of many shades of color and many nationalities.
— from Building a State in Apache Land by Charles D. (Charles Debrille) Poston

Catherine, the wife of Clotald, a noble, Christian, and prudent lady, conceived such an affection for Isabella, that she reared her as if she was her own daughter; and the child was so well endowed by nature, that she readily learned all they taught her.
— from The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

By dint of some industry and much persuasion, I succeeded in inducing the Abolitionists in New York to join our little band in Boston, in calling a national convention at Philadelphia.
— from William Lloyd Garrison, the Abolitionist by Archibald Henry Grimké

You represent, you say, States which have already seceded from the United States, or will have done so before the 1st of February next, and which will meet South Carolina in convention, on or before the 15th of that month; that your people feel they have a common destiny with our people, and expect to form with them in that Convention a new Confederacy and Provisional Government; that you must and will share our fortunes, suffering with us the evils of war, if it can not be avoided, and enjoying with us the blessings of peace, if it can be preserved.
— from The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1 by Jefferson Davis

Similarly the Christian accepts national communities as part of God's purpose to enrich and diversify human life.
— from The Grey Book A collection of protests against anti-semitism and the persecution of Jews issued by non-Roman Catholic churches and church leaders during Hitlers rule by Johan M. Snoek

Above all, we must refuse to be misled into abandoning the policy of efficient self-defense, by any unfounded trust that the Hague court, as now constituted, and peace or arbitration treaties of the existing type, can in the smallest degree accomplish what they never have accomplished and never can accomplish.
— from America and the World War by Theodore Roosevelt

She was now forced to remain immovable; for she felt herself entangled in some of the branches of the bough, and feared that any [Pg 677] attempt to dissembarrass herself might cause a new commotion, and point out her position.
— from The Wanderer; or, Female Difficulties (Volume 4 of 5) by Fanny Burney