Depraved nature, even perverted religion, though encouraged by the utmost license, cannot reach to a greater pitch of ferocity than appeared in these merciless barbarians.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

The first book takes the U.S. as it is and does not envisage profound responses coming as the inevitable accompaniment of frightful change; the second book states the outside problem in shocking terms, but asks of Americans things which neither they nor their press are ever apt to approve.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

I give the reading of Huschke: "Licere enim etiam, si fato is fuerit mortuus, mortuum dare; nam quamquam diximus, non etiam permissum reis esse, et mortuos homines dedere, tamen et si quis eum dederit, qui fato suo vita excesserit, aeque liberatur."
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Depraved nature, even perverted religion, encouraged by the utmost license, reach not to such
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 64 No. 396 October 1848 by Various

In order to prevent these depredations as much as possible in future, I gave orders for the convicts to be mustered in their huts three times every night, and the hour of muster to be constantly changed: this had a good effect, but did not entirely prevent robberies from being committed.
— from An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island by John Hunter

The spectacle of a Protestant premier of a two thirds Protestant country favoring a mission to the Vatican is one which would in any case have troubled Protestants, and in this case does not even please Roman Catholics.
— from Kultur in Cartoons With accompanying notes by well-known English writers by Louis Raemaekers

[12] So far as the State and society generally are concerned; but there are private situations in which even a member of the State Church does not enjoy perfect religious liberty.
— from Human Intercourse by Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Did not elementary probity require that he should cast aside the cassock and return into the midst of men?
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 1 by Émile Zola

“The victory at Hastings, my Queen,” said William, with his blandest smile, “does not establish peaceful rule o’er all the hills and vales of merrie England.
— from Heroines of the Crusades by C. A. (Celestia Angenette) Bloss