The author of the quaint old English classic, The Cloud of Unknowing , teaches us how to do this.
— from The Pursuit of God by A. W. (Aiden Wilson) Tozer

The Constitution has provided some important guards against the danger of executive influence upon the legislative body: it declares that "No senator or representative shall during the time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil office under the United States, which shall have been created, or the emoluments whereof shall have been increased, during such time; and no person, holding any office under the United States, shall be a member of either house during his continuance in office.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

The first pure cognition of understanding, then, upon which is founded all its other exercise, and which is at the same time perfectly independent of all conditions of mere sensuous intuition, is the principle of the original synthetical unity of apperception.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

For, if we were capable of understanding the universal harmony, we should see that what we are tempted to find fault with is connected with the plan most worthy of being chosen; in a word, we should see , and should not believe only, that what God has done is the best.
— from Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von

When we were descending the stairs, Count Tolstoy came out upon the upper landing, which is decorated with the skin of the big bear which figures in one of his stories, and called after us:-- "Shall you be ashamed of my dress when I come to the hotel for you?" "I am ashamed that you should ask such a question," I answered; and he laughed and retreated.
— from Russian Rambles by Isabel Florence Hapgood

It was sufficient for some native to be denounced as in the employment of the Americans, or [ 767 ] as an agent, or as a civil officer under the United States, for a summons to be issued for his appearance before a court of summary procedure, which was a court in name only; or for a mandate to be sent ordering that ‘the serviceable method of dukut was to be employed in his case.’
— from The Philippines: Past and Present (Volume 2 of 2) by Dean C. (Dean Conant) Worcester

Resolved , That provisions ought to be made, by law, to render any officer in the army or navy of the United States, incapable of holding any civil office under the United States.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 3 (of 16) by United States. Congress

Coming out upon the unshaded road, a greater light falls upon them.
— from Airy Fairy Lilian by Duchess

And be it further enacted , That no person shall be appointed, after the date of this Act, to any civil office under the United States, whether by way of original appointment or promotion, unless [Pg 279] recommended by a certificate of the Board: Provided , That this shall not apply to offices the appointing power to which is by the Constitution vested in the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate: but applicants for such offices shall be examined by the Board, if they present themselves, and shall receive certificates in the same manner as other applicants.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 11 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

By this time they had arrived at the mouth 102 of the little creek, and climbed out upon the upper level.
— from Canoe Mates in Canada; Or, Three Boys Afloat on the Saskatchewan by St. George Rathborne

| This felicitation therefore, this cry of "Happy are the freely justified," is it upon the circumcision, or upon the uncircumcision?
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle of St Paul to the Romans by H. C. G. (Handley Carr Glyn) Moule

No State shall engage in any war without the consent of the United States in Congress assembled, unless such State be actually invaded by enemies, or shall have received certain advice of a resolution being formed by some nation of Indians to invade such State, and the danger is so imminent as not to admit of a delay, till the United States in Congress assembled can be consulted: nor shall any State grant commissions to any ships or vessels of war, nor letters of marque or reprisal, except it be after a declaration of war by the United States in Congress assembled, and then only against the kingdom or state and the subjects thereof, against which war has been so declared, and under such regulations as shall be established by the United States in Congress assembled, unless such State be infested by pirates, in which case vessels of war may be fitted out for that occasion, and kept so long as the danger shall continue, or until the United States in Congress assembled shall determine otherwise.
— from The Fathers of the Constitution: A Chronicle of the Establishment of the Union by Max Farrand

The objections made to it by Cicero and others, our author observes, are founded more upon the consequences of usury than upon usury itself.
— from The Rights of War and Peace by Hugo Grotius