In the next place, reason directs us to keep our minds as free from passion and as cheerful as we can, and that we should consider ourselves as bound by the ties of good-nature and humanity to use our utmost endeavours to help forward the happiness of all other persons; for there never was any man such a morose and severe pursuer of virtue, such an enemy to pleasure, that though he set hard rules for men to undergo, much pain, many watchings, and other rigors, yet did not at the same time advise them to do all they could in order to relieve and ease the miserable, and who did not represent gentleness and good-nature as amiable dispositions.
— from Utopia by More, Thomas, Saint

But every man in his owne order, Christ the first fruits, afterward they that are Christs, at his comming; Then Commeth the end, when he shall have delivered up the Kingdome of God, even the Father, when he shall have put down all Rule, and all Authority and Power") it is manifest, that we do not in Baptisme constitute over us another authority, by which our externall actions are to be governed in this life; but promise to take the doctrine of the Apostles for our direction in the way to life eternall.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

He then desired us to kneel on it with our heads down, and our tails well up.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

as if all happiness was not connected with the practice of virtue, which necessarily depends upon the knowledge of truth; that is, upon the knowledge of those unalterable relations which Providence has ordained that every thing should bear to every other.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

As soon as Earl Thorfin and King Olaf met, the king made the same demand upon the kingdom of Orkney that he had done to Earl Bruse, and required that Thorfin should voluntarily deliver over to the king that part of the country which he had possessed hitherto.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

There is no necessity to dwell upon this kind of wit, instances of which could easily be multiplied.
— from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson

As the Sovereign assumed or arrogated the control of arms, the right to grant arms, and the right of judgment in disputes concerning arms, it was but the natural result that the personal heralds of the Sovereign should be required to have a knowledge of the arms of his principal subjects, and should obtain something in the nature of a cognisance or control and jurisdiction over those arms; for doubtless the actions of the Sovereign would often depend upon the knowledge of his heralds.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

A second respite was obtained by the last crusade of St. Louis to the African coast; and the double motive of interest and duty urged the king of Naples to assist, with his powers and his presence, the holy enterprise.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

How it shall fall will depend upon the kind of scales which you may have drawn at birth, the bias which they will have obtained by use, and the weight of the immediate considerations.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

Decide upon the kind of grain to be selected and choose from one of the best fields a hundred of the best heads—those that are vigorous, clean, free from rust or smut, and standing up straight.
— from Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study by Ontario. Department of Education

Judging that Foresta was favorably receiving his attentions Dave determined upon the killing of them both.
— from The Hindered Hand; or, The Reign of the Repressionist by Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert) Griggs

His chum Chester Haynes, about his own age, lived within a hundred yards of the shelter of the craft, so that it was always under his eye, when not dashing up the Kennebec or some of its tributaries, or cruising over the broad waters of Casco Bay.
— from The Launch Boys' Cruise in the Deerfoot by Edward Sylvester Ellis

He is commonly apt to learn, and very much depends upon the kind of teaching he falls under.
— from Aliens or Americans? by Howard B. (Howard Benjamin) Grose

The finish will depend upon the kind of wood used and the furniture with which it is to be associated.
— from The Library of Work and Play: Home Decoration by Charles Franklin Warner

That night Belle-Ann indited a letter to her father, dwelling upon the kindness of Miss Worth, who had proposed to give her a higher education.
— from The Red Debt: Echoes from Kentucky by Everett MacDonald

She hurried through the garden, where the patch of newly-turned earth was already drying under the kiss of the sun, and the wallflowers were beginning to droop, but she saw nothing of it all.
— from The Making of Mona by Mabel Quiller-Couch

Then when the sun had clomb to his decline, And seemed to rest, before his slow descent, Upon the keystone of his airy bridge, They rested likewise, half-tired man and horse, And homeward went for food and courage new; Whereby refreshed, they turned again to toil, And lived in labour all the afternoon.
— from A Hidden Life and Other Poems by George MacDonald

No doubt a consciousness of deeper differences underlay the keenness of commercial rivalry.
— from The Story of Newfoundland by Birkenhead, Frederick Edwin Smith, Earl of