And as when a complaint was made to Moses, against those of the Seventy that prophecyed in the camp of Israel, he justified them in it, as being subservient therein to his government; so also our Saviour, when St. John complained to him of a certain man that cast out Devills in his name, justified him therein, saying, (Luke 9.50.)
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

General Logan succeeded him, and commanded the Army of the Tennessee through this desperate battle, and until he was superseded by Major-General Howard, on the 26th, with the same success and ability that had characterized him in the command of a corps or division.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

There is, however, another class of differences arising from a variation of view as to the precise quality immediately apprehended in the moral intuition.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

His violence thou fearst not, being such, As wee, not capable of death or paine, Can either not receave, or can repell.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

The words were still in his hearing as just spoken—distinctly in his hearing as ever spoken words had been in his life—when the weary passenger started to the consciousness of daylight, and found that the shadows of the night were gone.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

But because there is in man an election, touching the frame of his mind, and a necessity in the frame of his body, the stars of natural inclination are sometimes obscured by the sun of discipline and virtue; therefore, it is good to consider of deformity, not as a sign which is more deceivable, but as a cause which seldom faileth of the effect.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

It is evident from their nature, however, that they can only have been used for ceremonial or decorative purposes.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

This being supposed, it seems to me undeniable that this judgment will exclude or weaken the operation of the moral motive in the case of the act contemplated: I either shall not judge it reasonable to choose to do what I should otherwise so judge, or if I do pass the judgment, I shall also judge the conception of duty applied in it to be illusory, no less than the conception of Freedom.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

They have dined, and are now drinking Loyal-Patriotic toasts; while the Marseillese, National-Patriotic merely, are about sitting down to their frugal covers of delf.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Watt therefore must always stand among the benefactors of men, in the triple capacity of discoverer, inventor, and constructor.
— from James Watt by Andrew Carnegie

His chiefs of departments almost refused to embark on any project until the factor's daughter should be found.
— from The Wilderness Trail by Francis William Sullivan

Evolution is in any case a grand phantasmagoria, but it assumes an infinitely more interesting aspect under the knowledge that the intelligent action of the human will is, in some small measure, capable of directing its course.
— from Parenthood and Race Culture: An Outline of Eugenics by C. W. (Caleb Williams) Saleeby

When, by the cruel hand of persecution, the wives of my brother and the Saints generally were homeless and destitute of all conveniences, and most of the comforts of domestic life, at times living in tents and wagons, in storm and sunshine—at others, in temporary houses or huts, my brother, feeling the weight of responsibility as husband and father, with all the warm sympathies of his nature aroused, had to suppress and struggle against his feelings in view of the circumstances.
— from Biography and Family Record of Lorenzo Snow One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Eliza R. (Eliza Roxey) Snow

With a genial and highly exaggerated smile, the negro proceeded:— “Well, as I was agwine to say, I see dis man, Conrad ob de Mountains, on de plains ob Proo.
— from The Rover of the Andes: A Tale of Adventure on South America by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Conjugal onanism, Dr. Devay, 96 .
— from Femina, A Work for Every Woman by John A. (John Alexander) Miller

Several of the men complain of disorders in their bowels, which can be ascribed only to their diet of pounded fish mixed with salt-water: and they are therefore directed to use for that purpose, the fresh water above the point.
— from History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. II To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6. by William Clark

[67] Though both objects are equally essential, the former is usually the more pressing; and it has been ascertained by experiment, what we should expect from theory, that when animals are starved to death, there is a progressive decline in the temperature of their bodies; so that the proximate cause of death by starvation is not weakness, but cold.
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 1 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle

Ewell, General R. S., at West Point, 17 ; engagement of, with Hooker, at Bristoe Station, 170 ; loses a leg at Groveton, 177 ; appointed to command of Second Corps on death of Jackson, 332 ; engages Milroy at Winchester, 339 ; march of, to Gettysburg, 344 ; captures beeves and flour, 345 ; in fight on Cemetery Hill, 355 , 356 ; attacked by Ruger, 387 ; in retreat from Gettysburg, 431 , 432 ; in command of Second Corps on Rapidan (1864), 553 ; becomes engaged in Wilderness, 558 , 562 ; takes several officers prisoners, 565 ; in retreat from Petersburg, 612 , 613 ; brave stand and final surrender of, 614 .
— from From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America by James Longstreet