Where a civil law is so perverse as to cross all the interests of society, it loses all its authority, and men judge by the ideas of natural justice, which are conformable to those interests.
— from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume

Ad spectaculum 10 consederant, et praeco cum tubicine, ut mos est, in mediam aream , unde sollemni carmine ludicrum indici solet, processit et, tuba silentio facto, ita pronuntiat: ‘Senatus Romanus et T. Quinctius imperator, Philippo rege Macedonibusque devictis, 15 liberos, immunes, suis legibus esse iubet Corinthios, Phocenses, Locrensesque omnes et
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

On the use of coffee leaves in Sumatra. Pharmaceutical Journal, 1853, XIII:
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

For we know that as God's and our Savior's yoke is usually easy, and his burden comparatively light, in such positive injunctions, Matthew 11:30, so did the scribes and Pharisees sometimes "bind upon men heavy burdens, and grievous to be borne," even when they themselves "would not touch them with one of their fingers," Matthew 23:4; Luke 11:46.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

It used to remind me of those curious lines in some play—Hamlet, I think—how do they run?— "Like the painting of a sorrow, A face without a heart."
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

I to the Exchequer, about striking new tallys, and I find the Exchequer, by proclamation, removing to Nonesuch.—[Nonsuch Palace, near Epsom, where the Exchequer money was kept during the time of the plague.]—Back again and at my papers, and putting up my books into chests, and settling my house and all things in the best and speediest order I can, lest it should please God to take me away, or force me to leave my house.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Then they began telling me how it was all over again, and I began to be sorry and glad again, and foolish again, and to hide my plain old face as much as I could lest I should put them out of heart.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

He thought of all the human things in his story—of the Chinese lanterns in Saffron Park, of the girl’s red hair in the garden, of the honest, beer-swilling sailors down by the dock, of his loyal companions standing by.
— from The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

As for canon law, its study presupposes general notions on law and on the conditions of social authority no less than the study of civil jurisprudence.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 15, Nos. 85-90, April 1872-September 1872 A Monthly Magazine by Various

[33] that they seem a reflection of the sky, or the celandine lies in sunny patches on a bank, or the primrose and violet come up here and there at the foot of old forest-trees.
— from The English Flower Garden with illustrative notes by Henry Arthur Bright

[8] Even in the few localities where regulation of street trading has been attempted, the delusion that there is some essential difference between child labor in factories and child labor in streets persists in the legislation itself.
— from Child Labor in City Streets by Edward Nicholas Clopper

It may be mentioned, however, that the Horn people are reputed to have been early arrivals in Tusayan, and it is not improbable that representatives of the Horn clans lived in Sikyatki previous to its overthrow.
— from Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Jesse Walter Fewkes

“At first I did so in order to avoid all the trammels of Court life in St Petersburg, the eternal gaiety of la Ville Lumière, and to be free to do what I liked and go where I chose,” she answered.
— from Whoso Findeth a Wife by William Le Queux

Economic aid - recipient: $228.5 million (1995) Currency: litas (LTL) Currency code: LTL Exchange rates: litai per US dollar - 4.000 (fixed rate since 1 May 1994); note - litai is the plural of litas; effective 2 February 2002 the litas are pegged to the euro Fiscal year: calendar year Communications Lithuania Telephones - main lines in use: 1.142 million (2001) Telephones - mobile cellular: 500,000 (2001) Telephone system: general assessment: inadequate, but is being modernized to provide an improved international capability and better residential access domestic: completion; rural exchanges are being improved and expanded; mobile cellular systems are being installed; access to the Internet is available; still many unsatisfied telephone subscriber applications international: to Denmark, Sweden, and Norway by submarine cable for further transmission by satellite Radio broadcast stations: AM 29, FM 142, shortwave 1 (2001) Radios: 1.9 million (1997) Television broadcast stations: 27 note: Lithuania has approximately 27 broadcasting stations, but may have as many as 100 transmitters, including repeater stations (2001) Televisions: 1.7 million (1997) Internet country code: .lt Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 32 (2001) Internet users: 341,000 (2001) Transportation Lithuania Railways: total: 1,998 km broad gauge: 1,807 km 1.524-m gauge (122 km electrified) narrow gauge: 169 km 0.750-m gauge (2001) standard gauge: 22 km 1.435-m gauge Highways: total: 44,000 km paved: 35,500 km unpaved: 8,500 km (2001) Waterways: 600 km (perennially navigable) Pipelines: crude oil, 105 km; natural gas 760 km (1992) Ports and harbors: Butinge, Kaunas, Klaipeda Merchant marine: total: 47 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 279,743 GRT/304,156 DWT ships by type: cargo 25, combination bulk 8, petroleum tanker 2, railcar carrier 1, refrigerated cargo 6, roll on/roll off 2, short-sea passenger 3 note: includes some foreign-owned ships
— from The 2002 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Steep hills closely border the chasm, leaving in some places scarcely room on the terrace to pass on horseback.
— from Oregon and Eldorado; or, Romance of the Rivers by Thomas Bulfinch

The castle, like its smaller predecessor of which this pile of building has taken the place, stands in a haugh or meadow at the foot of a hill, within a circle of mountain-tops.
— from Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 2 by Sarah Tytler

And their best friends had come to wish them well, with all the noise and chatter common to such occasions, even among very well bred people; and as soon as they could, they kissed the aunt and slipped away, getting a last glimpse of Jean and the Agricultural Representative, apparently completely lost in some panorama unfolding itself before them in the open fire.
— from God's Green Country: A Novel of Canadian Rural Life by Ethel M. Chapman

It would never have occurred to the great novelist, in his search for the real Audrey, to look deeper than the "primitive passions," or to suspect that the secret of personality could lie in so pure a piece of mechanism as the human conscience.
— from Audrey Craven by May Sinclair