Lykurgus abolished all the mass of pride, envy, crime, and luxury which flowed from those old and more terrible evils of riches and poverty, by inducing all land-owners to offer their estates for redistribution, and prevailing upon them to live on equal terms one with another, and with equal incomes, striving only to surpass each other in courage and virtue, there being henceforth no social inequalities among them except such as praise or blame can create.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

It is largely a matter for individual judgment, patient experiment, and a sharp eye for revolutions and position.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Then, being risen from childbed, she went out to meet Fineo, whose return was expected from Rome, and paid him reverence as to a father; whereupon he, exceeding well pleased to have so fair a daughter-in-law, caused celebrate their nuptials 278 with the utmost pomp and rejoicing and receiving her as a daughter, ever after held her such.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

In this he encountered violent opposition, and it seems that Jews were not permitted to return in large numbers, or at any rate to enjoy full rights and privileges, until after the accession of Charles II, who in his turn had enlisted their financial aid.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

These will emerge from research and promoting awareness in areas such as machine translation, standardization, searching for information, automatic summarizing, and so on.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Some of the men and the older boys were building native ovens—eight of them, each one large enough for roasting a pig.
— from Faery Lands of the South Seas by James Norman Hall

For four years she had maintained her position as an independent State, and today she was prosperous, happy and free, acknowledged by England, France, Russia and Prussia--four of the greatest powers of the earth; and before this year is out the United States will be willing, ready and anxious to cultivate friendly relations with that garden spot--that heritage which a kind and overruling Providence has prepared for us, and not only for us, but for all the sable sons and daughters of Ham.
— from The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 by Various

Gegenbaur’s older view [Pg 618] that the Elasmobranch fin retains a primitive uniserial type appears to me to be nearer the truth than his more recent view on this subject; though I hold that the fundamental point established by the development of these parts in Scyllium is that the posterior border of the adult Elasmobranch fin is the primitive base line, i.e. the line of attachment of the fin to the side of the body.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 3 (of 4) A Treatise on Comparative Embryology: Vertebrata by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

There seems to be little doubt that the Emperor Pedro means to direct an expedition from Rio against Portugal, Terceira being the point of rassemblement .
— from A Political Diary, 1828-1830, Volume II by Ellenborough, Edward Law, Earl of

—Tree roots entering fissured rock and prying its sections apart.
— from Earth Features and Their Meaning An Introduction to Geology for the Student and the General Reader by William Herbert Hobbs

"Yet, Lewie dear, I will not deny that I think the need more urgent than ever for repentance and pardon now.
— from Lewie; Or, The Bended Twig by Sarah H. (Sarah Hopkins) Bradford

The large sums paid to ‘the army’ by Ethelred for respite and peace had flooded Scandinavia with English silver money of his coinage.
— from Tribal Custom in Anglo-Saxon Law Being an Essay Supplemental to (1) 'The English Village Community', (2) 'The Tribal System in Wales' by Frederic Seebohm

After completely exhausting my stock of money I was compelled to walk back to Calais, which I did with little inconvenience, as I found that money was unnecessary; the only difficulty I met with being how to escape from the overflowing hospitality I everywhere experienced from rich and poor.
— from The Opium Habit by Horace B. Day

—General Wadsworth suggested to the President one of those bold movements by which campaigns are terminated by one blow: "To send Heintzelman and him, Wadsworth, with some 25,000 men, to Gordonsville (here and in Baltimore about 90,000 men), and thus cut off the enemy from Richmond, and prevent him from rallying his forces."
— from Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 by De Gurowski, Adam G., count

EDUCATION FOR RICH AND POOR.
— from Arrows of the Chace, vol. 2/2 being a collection of scattered letters published chiefly in the daily newspapers 1840-1880 by John Ruskin