It should also be borne in mind that these original fables were inserted in an edition professedly meant for schools rather than for the general public.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

They face social and economic problems much more immediately than do men because the responsibility for maintaining homes and children normally falls on them.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

The Laws Of Transferring Property Belong Also To The Soveraign Further, seeing it is not enough to the Sustentation of a Common-wealth, that every man have a propriety in a portion of Land, or in some few commodities, or a naturall property in some usefull art, and there is no art in the world, but is necessary either for the being, or well being almost of every particular man; it is necessary, that men distribute that which they can spare, and transferre their propriety therein, mutually one to another, by exchange, and mutuall contract.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

In return, those belonging to it thus are its exclusive property; members of other clans may not usurp them.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

In doing this he fired my broadside after withdrawing the cannon balls; for neither the Censor nor any other Englishman, except perhaps Mr Leslie Stephen and a few other veterans of the dwindling old guard of Benthamism, cares a dump about political principle.
— from Mrs. Warren's Profession by Bernard Shaw

Affectus parentum in foetus transeunt, et puerorum malicia parentibus imputanda, lib. 4. cap.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Cobet rejects this sentence as a gloss; but Julian perhaps echoes Plato, Menexenus 246 C. 328.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

For of those that remain we may fairly say, that they manifestly will not furnish independent maxims: for reflection will show that the conduct designated by them is either prescribed merely as a means to the performance of duties already discussed; or is really identical with the whole or part of some of these, viewed in some special aspect, or perhaps specialised by the addition of some peculiar circumstance or condition.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

I did, indeed, from time to time, put down short hints of the sentiments, reasonings, etc., to be made use of in it, some of which I have still by me; but the necessary close attention to private business in the earlier part of my life, and public business since, have occasioned my postponing it; for, it being connected in my mind with a great and extensive project , that required the whole man to execute, and which an unforeseen succession of employs prevented my attending to, it has hitherto remain'd unfinish'd.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

The parting between Rebecca and the little Rawdon did not cause either party much pain.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Three hundred years later, another unhappy sovereign, Maria Louisa, Napoleon’s empress, possessed Margaret’s breviary, in which there was a sentence in Margaret’s hand that told the moral of her life: “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 03, June 1883 by Chautauqua Institution

If he is a little reckless the ratio is four of water to three of wine; equal parts "make men mad" as the poet says, and are probably reserved for very wild dinner parties.
— from A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life by William Stearns Davis

Imports - commodities: machinery and transport equipment, electric power machinery, food and livestock, metal and metal products, chemicals and chemical products, plastics, yarn, paper Imports - partners: Saudi Arabia 12%, China 8.7%, Egypt 6.2%, Italy 6%, UAE 5.9%, Ukraine 4.8%, Russia 4.8%, Germany 4.7%, Iran 4.3% (2007)
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

page 60 p. 60 His de Bardorum origine praemissis, ad eorum pergamus munus, prout Scriptores Graeci
— from Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Ancient Welsh Bards by Evan Evans

He issued a decree to the Collectors of Customs to admit free of duty all articles which Mr. Hill desired to import, and in every possible manner showed his interest in the success of the work.
— from The Capitals of Spanish America by William Eleroy Curtis

"Don't you hug 'em, please, Miss Kate," warned this girl as they descended.
— from Kildares of Storm by Eleanor Mercein Kelly

On our return to Salem, we diverged a little from our road, near Manchester, to see a farm, whose situation would make an envious person miserable.
— from Society in America, Volume 1 (of 2) by Harriet Martineau

True; the period for which each patient may reside in the Home is but short.
— from An Address to the Sisters of St. Peter's Home, Brompton by Edward Meyrick Goulburn

Countries, which sold weapons to every despicable dictator in every corner of the earth – prevented Macedonia from trading with its neighbours.
— from After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Samuel Vaknin

It being observed to him, that a rage for every thing English prevailed much in
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell