III A question is also raised as to the propriety of dissolving or not dissolving those Friendships the parties to which do not remain what they were when the connection was formed.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

The Stranger continued. 'Though to you only visible for one hour in the twenty-four, neither day or night does She ever quit you; Nor will She ever quit you till you have granted her request.' '
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

Non omnia terra Obruta; vivit amor, vivit dolor; ora negatur Dulcia conspicere; at fiere et meminisse relictum est.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It is not surprising to find that the value in the idea of social efficiency resides largely in its protest against the points at which the doctrine of natural development went astray; while its misuse comes when it is employed to slur over the truth in that conception.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

Though he studiously concealed his hand, this morning before breakfast, in writing the direction-card which he attached to the little brown valise of happier days, the eagle-glance of matrimonial anxiety detected, d, o, n, distinctly traced.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Lord Stanhope said, that every farthing possessed by the criminals, whether directors or not directors, ought to be confiscated, to make good the public losses.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

THE EIGHTH DRAMATIS PERSONAE KING HENRY THE EIGHTH CARDINAL WOLSEY CARDINAL CAMPEIUS CAPUCIUS, Ambassador from the Emperor Charles V CRANMER, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY DUKE OF NORFOLK DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM DUKE OF SUFFOLK EARL OF SURREY LORD CHAMBERLAIN LORD CHANCELLOR GARDINER, BISHOP OF WINCHESTER BISHOP OF LINCOLN
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

To this I say, the question is not of the danger of not deposing; but of the Justice of deposing him.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Look at the teamster on the highway, wending to market by day or night; does any divinity stir within him?
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

The rule of this realme by Gods prouidence allotted to duke William, his descent from Rollo the first duke of Normandie downewards to his particular linage, he was base begotten vpon the bodie of Arlete duke Roberts concubine, a pleasant speech of hirs to duke Robert on a time when he was to haue the vse of hir person, a conclusion introductorie for the sequele of the chronicle from the said duke of Normandies coronation, &c: with a summarie of the notable conquests of this Iland.
— from Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (8 of 8) The Eight Booke of the Historie of England by Raphael Holinshed

But there are folk who make it a point of honour never to admit that in doing or not doing anything, they are actuated for an instant by so despicable a consideration as the question whether or not they can afford it.
— from The Recreations of a Country Parson by Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd

Mr. Bowdoin, we know, is anxious to come home, and is detained only by the delicacy of not deserting his post.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 5 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

There was some murmuring among the damsels of Norman descent, who were as much unused to see the preference given to a Saxon beauty, as the Norman nobles were to sustain defeat in the games of chivalry which they themselves had introduced.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

he didna manage 't, for Mag says, 'We a' ha'e oor faults, Gavin, an' deevil or no deevil, ye're the man for me!' "Gavin thocht a bit," continued Tammas, "an' syne he tries her on a new tack.
— from A Window in Thrums by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

I have described our life as having been one of great isolation so far as European society was concerned, but I never felt it to be a dull one, nor did my neighbours ever complain of it, though we only took a holiday of a few weeks in the year.
— from Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore With chapters on coffee planting in Coorg, the Mysore representative assembly, the Indian congress, caste and the Indian silver question, being the 38 years' experiences of a Mysore planter by Robert H. (Robert Henry) Elliot

He'll probably have one more try, destroyer or no destroyer."
— from The Boy Allies with the Victorious Fleets; Or, The Fall of the German Navy by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes

But never day or night did the minister forget his charge.
— from The History of David Grieve by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

[426] "Anssi mismo mandamos que ninguna persona de ninguna condicion ni calidad que sea, no pueda traer ni traya en ropa ni en vestido, ni en calzas, ni jubon, ni en gualdrapa, ni guarnicion de mula ni de cavallo, ningun genero de bordado ni recamado, ni gandujado, ni entorchado, ni chapería de oro ni de plata, ni de oro de cañutillo, ni de martillo, ni ningun genero de trenza ni cordon ni cordoncillo, ni franja, ni pasamano, ni pespunte, ni perfil de oro ni plata ni seda, ni otra cosa, aunque el dicho oro y plata sean falsos," &c.—Pracmatica expedida á peticion de la Cortes de Madrid de 1563.
— from History of the Reign of Philip the Second King of Spain, Vol. 3 And Biographical & Critical Miscellanies by William Hickling Prescott

*THE DEVELOPMENT OF NAVIES DURING THE LAST HALF-CENTURY.
— from Gothic Architecture by Edouard Corroyer